A bit early but with it mid week and all the fireworks every evening it seems like many are celebrating this event early or all week!
A great photo shot by C. Ryan Mac on Shelter Island, San Diego Bay, facing the downtown as background…fireworks anyone? Thanks Jim Reid, Prowlers of San Diego for the idea. Hello, I have always wanted to take photographs of hot rods with fireworks in the background during those “hey day” photojournalist days. With the black background, exploding fireworks and a cool looking hot rod in the foreground lit up by a fill flash…that would have been the ticket. A cover shot for sure, with the possibility of being a centerfold… The greater San Diego Harbor has one of the nicest fireworks display in all of So Cal. The bay is big enough from the ocean all the way around Coronado Island Navy Base to the Coronado Bridge. There are several launch spots in each mini harbor from the west, around the bay to downtown, and to the Coronado Bridge. It is a spectacular and what seems like a never ending display of fireworks from each spot as it goes from west to east. (Colorful to say the least.) www.sundiegolive.com would give land locked people access to these festivities in live action with their webcam, if you are not able to see fireworks live. Jnaki Being born on the 4th of July has some advantages. It is the biggest celebration of your birthday by people unknown to you and your family. But, still, they are celebrating your birthday all over the USA with fireworks, Ha! Have a “Happy BD”, to our newly minted teenager, GD. "You just got to ignite the light, And let it shine, Just own the night, Like the Fourth of July..." Addendum: One year, there was a glitch and the San Diego “Big Bay Boom” event was over in a few seconds with all of the individual launch sites all going off at the same time. That was big news on the local TV channels and all the way up to L.A. The fireworks are normally supposed to start in the west and after that first one is over, the next harbor nearby starts their launch. Finally after a few different harbor launches, it is over by the Coronado Bridge. Fireworks are all over the USA, each one has its own stories and beauty. “Big Bay Boom is an annual Independence Day fireworks display in San Diego, California. The event has been put on since 2001. It is claimed to be one of the largest annual fireworks displays in the United States.” But the all at once, “big explosion on the bay” was in 2012: Not “Gone in 60 seconds”, but 15 seconds…
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