This Fireworks Show Was for the Birds
We joined the birds at Papaianni Lake Park in Edison, NJ, to see the fireworks
- Click the picture for a fun slide show!
- Brad and I ran up to the police line by the lake just as the show was starting.
- I began shooting…
- …with a fast shutter speed to darken the sky and capture the colors of the fireworks.
- But then I heard honking. Hmmm, what was that, I thought.
- And I realized something cool!
- There was a huge flock of geese waiting nervously by the lake.
- AWESOME! This one and the top-most picture of the blog post are my two faves. I slowed the shutter speed way down to let in more light so we’d be able to see the geese.
- It was a great fireworks show!
- I think the birds enjoyed it too.
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LOVE the geese! The big bunch of them there makes it look like they’re all gathered for the show. I can’t imagine what was really going through their goose brains though…