Comments on: PHOTO: Take Better Fireworks Photos

By: Kathryn Simpson

Kathryn Simpson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:13:31 +0000

Yeah, and I haven’t even had a glass of wine tonight.

kjs

By: Colleen Smidt

Colleen Smidt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:38:10 +0000

Kathryn,

Wow! Waxing a little philosophical tonight are we?

We had some really good friends who lived in Port Orchard. He was a member of a pyrotechnic club. He would know the answer, but he and his wife bought a business on Maui and moved there about 2 year ago. Bums. I miss the shows he put on every year.

By: Kathryn Simpson

Kathryn Simpson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:09:47 +0000

Ok here’s a really ignorant question, but it just occurred to me…

When a big firework, like the one pictured, goes off… does it burst spherically? I mean does it burst out and would it look like a globe if you could get a 360 degree rotational view of it?

For some reason I always thought they were a type of half-spherical burst and would look different if you were looking at it from the North versus looking at it from the South?

Any pyro experts out there that even vaguely understand what I’m trying to ask?

Regards,
Kathryn Simpson