Cool Night For Fireworks

The weather was coolin', the fireworks were poppin' and the mosquitoes were buzzin'. These two images are a combination of several separate images. The top image is a combination of 6 exposures, using a focal length of 55mm. The exposures were shot from 9:12-9:23 PM, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The image looks west toward Cedar Rapids, Iowa from the grounds at Christ Community United Methodist Church in neighboring Marion. The bottom image is a combination of 9 exposures, each shot from 5-10 seconds at f/10, 200 ISO and 18mm focal length. It looks east toward Alburnett Road from the same position as the top image. The 9 images were shot from 9:30-9:36 PM. Temperature during this time was a very cool 67 degrees F. At upper right in the top image is the -3.91 magnitude planet Venus.