5thElement

Last night at 10pm there was 3 simultaneous fireworks displays in Liverpool to mark its 800th birthday, one at the Pier Head, one at the Anglican Cathedral and one at the Metropolitan Cathedral, i only live 2 minutes from the cathedrals and i reckon the Metropolitan is more photogenic so i headed there with the camera and tripod!

Display was excellent (i forgot which company were doing it though)







Was anyone else there?

Yeah i know these are late, never thought to post them here until now!

All taken at the British Musical Fireworks Championships at Southport, i think these were taken on the Sunday (24th September)

I was just playing with different exposure lengths with these, it's also the first time i've used a tripod for firework shots and it made a big difference compared to firework photos i've taken in the past. Also made me realise i need a better tripod, the cheap one i've got is crap!

Thought i'd make a seperate post about these.

The Weco "Rio" rocket pack from Aldi, £19.99 for 18 large rockets. Works out about £1.11 per rocket, which is pretty good in my books.

You get:

7 "Atlantis"
6 "Challenger"
5 "Discovery"

All boast a "shell burst" effect.

Descriptions of each rocket are as follows

Atlantis - Circular shaped silver to red chrysanthemum shell burst
Challenger - Circular shaped bright silver chrysanthemum shell burst
Discovery - Circular shaped ruby red chrysanthemum shell burst

Now a couple of pictures





I'll write reports of these once i fire them and hopefully get some videos to upload aswell. Im sure i had a couple of the Atlantis rockets last year and as far as i remember they were impressive.

Thought i'd post this up for anyone interested

Asda's 2006 pricelist

Front page



Inside



Pretty much the exact same stuff as last year. I got the "Space War" mines last year and they wern't bad, quite decent actually. This year i bought the smaller "Powder Keg" mines, i wanted them last year but they'd sold out, so i'll finally see what they're like this time!

The cheap ?2.47 rockets wern't great, but at that price you can't expect much!

Hi,

Someone on another forum is moaning about the price of fireworks and im not convinced he's really got a point.

He's trying to say that firework prices since the mid 90's have risen massively. Is this true?

For example, he's trying to claim a ?40 300 multi shot cake which is priced at ?40 now, would of only cost about ?5.99 in the mid 90's. Is this utter nonsense or is it true?

I personally dont remember much about fireworks back then and when i was younger i dont remember big multishot things much at all, all we seemed to get was selection boxes/sparklers and rockets.

Thoughts?