Homecoming Fireworks

Homecoming

Besides the 4th of July, occasionally I do fireworks for smaller venues, often high school and college homecoming football games and graduations. Because the shows are now electrically fired I arrived at about 3pm for the 8pm shoot. In the old days shows were hand fired and would only require an hour or so to set up. Now wires have to be run to each device. In this show there were 80 mortars and 2 multishot devices (the foil covered cardboard box below). The show went well, and we were packed up and gone before 9pm, we don't even know who won the game.

These photos were taken from a distance away from the firing site, and really show the scale of the "low-level" devices we were using. At the bottom of the pictures you can see the truck and a Saturn SL1 just outside the firing zone. The bursts occur at approximately 300 feet

Photographs

by Bob Barber