JULY 4, 2008

Bubble-Boy

J. Parks

Young Patriot

The Best Fireworks display I have ever seen, anywhere, anytime!

The Rocket's Red Glare over Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh celebrates it's 250th anniversary

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You can travel far and wide, but nowhere will you find any better fireworks displays than right here in Western Pennsylvania. This is the home of the world’s best fireworks manufacturer, Zambelli Fireworks Internationale! You drive from small town to big, all across this state and see fireworks everywhere on July 4, 5, and beyond. It is truly incredible: such displays elsewhere in the country pale to our home state’s vivacious, visual-incendiary-eye-candy. This was a non-stop 45-minute show with multiple fireworks in the air at all times--that would be a few minute finale for most cities, but this show continued at this incredible pace for the whole 45 minutes … it was unbelievable!!!

The routine excellence was excelled by leaps & bounds on this July 4, 2008 display to take the celebration to a whole different level. This holiday was not only our nation’s birthday, but also a celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary! This whole year has everything Pittsburgh amplified to the max. They spared not a cent to bring the citizenry of Pittsburgh the finest fireworks ever displayed in the opine of this humble traveler who has witnessed such all across this country and around the world. It was absolutely dazzling…

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Photos:

1. Bubble Boy. I shot this along the Monongahela River side by the Incline, where this young lad was making bubbles with a fancy toy device. He is being swallowed up in the biggest bubble I have ever seen or captured on film! He was part of the crowd forming to watch the show after dark.
2. J. Parks. Mr. Parks is a young local soldier. He is going to be deployed to Iraq in 2009. This is a portrait of he and his mate… Well-done Josh! Good luck.
3. Young Patriot.
4. One of the displays that were given life by so many rockets I could not count them, and this was the way it was the whole time!
5. In this one you can see the river (the Mon) and the boats sitting out there watching the show. The fireworks were shot from the Allegheny River on the other side of Point State Park.
6. I love this one. You can see on the very bottom center a silhouette of a person who was sitting on the railroad tracks watching the show. You can also see the reflections of the colors and the fireworks on the river as well in this one. Also, on the left bottom you can see the point fountain shooting up into the air, which was being colored by a laser show going on at the same time as the fireworks. Pittsburgh was showing off our Show Time persona this year … Big Time!

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Keep your heads down,

Henry Hill, Plum Pennsylvania