Fireworks Light Trail #2

Today I have only an appointment to go to and the rest of the day is free, hooray! Unfortunately my appointment is timed so that gym will not be possible, so I'll need to go for my walk at about 4 o'clock. Other than that, I intend to be fairly productive today with some more craft cupboard (re)sorting, some bathroom sorting and hopefully some scrapbooking and/or card-making. In the kitchen I am hoping I'll have time to make up some fruit salad and some banana bread. What does your Friday look set to include?

Fireworks making light trails in the evening sky:

I snapped this with my camera set up on its tripod for steadiness at the 2009 RiverFire celebrations. I used a combination of the fireworks settings and the night settings to grab photos all night and I think this one was set to "night".

Fireworks Light Trail

Apologies for not posting this this morning, we had a man out to install some insulation, and while he was here he touched one of our lights and blew a fuse - which of course meant no internet.

Fireworks on 2010's RiverFire:

I haven't much to say about today's photograph, so I'll just get on with it.

This is one of the photographs I snapped at 2010's RiverFire using the Fireworks setting and my beloved tripod. I just love the way the beams of light splay out and up, and the clarity of the lines. This is of course part of my Fireworks series.

Dusk Bloom

I've spent the better part of the last three hours trying to work out which photo to post for Monday's. I have a billion things un-done and a billion more half-done, but oh well. Too late now!

A yellow flower after some rain, as dusk settled in:

When I stayed in Sydney, my friends took me to a few different places. One of those was an outdoors shopping complex that had some lovely big flowers in the garden there, and this is one of the photos I got of them. As always, any hints on what type of flower this is are welcome!

Dusk Giraffe

Throwing this one out there before I rush off to get ready for an appointment today.

Hummer the giraffe at Canberra National Zoo and Aquarium:

Anyone who knows me probably knows that I love giraffes. Imagine the excitement when I visited Canberra and had the pleasure of watching this gorgeous boy for ages. I even got to feed him - twice! It was pure magic. I took this shot on general settings, quite zoomed in (optical), as dusk fell.

Tracking

Lazy Saturday has apparently led into Lazy Sunday, but that's okay. Later I'll start tidying up my things so that I can "get crafty".

Suburban railway tracks at the onset of dusk:

Headed home after a day out, I couldn't resist stopping to snap this one at my local railway station. This is another I took using my old DX6440; although it has a sepia affect, I think I actually achieved it by applying a colour filter to a regular full-colour photograph. Part of my Suburban Life series, this one could definitely do with a better title. Suggestions welcome!