Zooming - July 2014

We are in the full swing of summer - lotus and water lilies - summer wild flowers and fireworks. Those are major themes for the zoom collages this month. 

The first collage is of lotus at the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens.

The water lilies are also from Kenilworth.

The squiggles from botched firework pictures actually turned out to be worth a collage too.

Last, but not least, a zooming collage from my walk around the Howard County Conservancy Honor Garden.

Fireworks

One of the communities near us sponsored a fireworks display last Saturday. We had gotten a postcard in the mail several weeks ago and agreed to go but forgot until we heard the fireworks begin. Fortunately we were able to drive to a good vantage point quickly - only missing the first 10 minutes or so. Fireworks and celebration are almost synonymous!

I grabbed my camera as we dashed out of the house and was pleased with the results. The Canon Powershot SX289 HS does a reasonable job of image stabilization. All the pictures in the slide show below were hand held!

The finale was a series of rockets that streamed upward in tight formation creating giant ‘sparklers’ in the sky. I couldn’t resist a picture of the super moon  after the end of the fireworks; it is included as the last image in the slide show. It looks like it is balanced on the tops of a tulip poplar and a pine.