4th of July 2009

Last night we went with my side of the family to see fireworks at this neighborhood called Sterling on the Lake. It's one of those huge subdivisions that they're trying to turn into its own little community, so they have all kinds of events, like free concerts and stuff. It's just down the road from my parents' subdivision, so we went down there and took a picnic dinner and watched the fireworks. Fortunately for us, Jose was there to take all kinds of awesome pictures. In all of these, he used the flash to take the picture in the dark, and then left the shutter open to capture light afterwards, and he has all these different colored flashlights, so we did some neat stuff with them. Just to further explain, because I can be a little slow on these things, the flash captures the image, and then leaving the shutter open only captures light after that, so you can dance around in the background with the flashlight, and all the camera captures is what the light did. Here are a few of what we did with the kids: And, of course, what would a 4th of July post be without pictures of fireworks? Again, Jose took the picture with the flash and left the shutter open to capture the fireworks, which made for great pictures!