like every year at 4th of july there are lots of firework and bbq's around. So I made my first attempt shooting a firework.

After a couple of minutes I figured out that 70mm and 50mm are to long and switched to a 19-35mm lens. it turned out that the 35mm worked perfect for the job.

i set the exposure to 30 seconds and an aperature of 25.

Out of 20 shots, 8 turned out pretty well and can be found on

http://picasaweb.google.com/berlinguyinca/Firework

tommorrow we try to figure out how to make pictues of fancy hotels in las vegas. We are staying at the luxor.

this morning I went to circuit city because I read they have SD cards in stock. So I decided to get some for our Las Vegas trip in 2 days.

So I got 3 new cards and wanted to pay, when I noticed that my credit card was gone. So I paid with my secondaery card and started to figure out where I used my card.

And remembered I that we went for dinner last night at claim jumpers, so I took my trusty gps and told it find me the closest claim jumper and drove there. It worked and they handed me my card which was than used to get another piece of cake and a cheap (20$) graduated nd filter to find out how usefull it is.

I will test it tommorrow and maybe I can get some nice sunset pictures...