China's national day was celebrated with a fireworks display over Victoria Harbour. I saw it from Wan Chai. Took my camera and tripod and tried to get a good spot to set up. But that was futile. The place was packed. So all I managed were some single-handed over-the-head shots, which got boring after a while, so I stopped.
The fireworks were nice. I'm sure they'll take out all the stops at the Olympics. This was just a short preview, or maybe not even that. Particularly liked the ones that burst to make an '8' in the sky (a lucky number for the Chinese). Some others were, I think, were bursting into Chinese characters. The wind was strong that day (we're talking mini-typhoon proportions), everything got carried off (erased?) towards the left of our giant sky-screen.
The pictures aren't very useful for getting a flavour of the fireworks. But they'd probably make good illustrations for someone writing a dissertation on 'The effects of gale on a fireworks display'. (If you're that person, just leave a comment on this post.)
By the way, the bright yellow dots aren't fireworks, merely street lamps. Couldn't get them out of the frame from where I was, unless I zoomed in a lot, and then the hand-held, wind-blown pictures would be way too blurry.
Cheers to China, and viva Hong Kong!
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