Thanks Jay and Squeezer.
OK Hogs, where are all you fireworks shooters? I know you're out there. Don't be shy.

A little more info on the compo shot.
Fireworks tend to get really crowded, and standing in the crowd makes photography tough.
Here's what I did. This shot was actually planned way in advance. I went there the day before to scout out my location, knowing it would be really crowded. I picked my area. I had brought a 5 foot ladder with me and chained it to a tree nearby, since driving in would not be possible. Arriving the next night, I retrieved my ladder to which I clamped a plywood platform onto which my tripod would stand. In this way I could be behind all the people and not be in their way, and they not in my way, since I was above them all. Afterward I changed the ladder back onto the tree and retrieved it the next day.
Yes, it took a little logistical planning, but I got the shot I came for.

Now I just need you guys to start to give up your fireworks trade secrets and post away!! :lol:
SS

The mechanics of being offended ...

Offense is taken by the one "offended". Being offended is a chosen response on the part of the one who is offended--if even an unconscious [unthinking, reflexive] response.

Blaming the object or person which triggered the reaction of being offended, one has handed over causality to the object/person over one's way of being.

Offense is more often taken than it is intended. That's the nature of email where facial expression and body posture of the originator is left to the imagination of the one reading the post.

Self-righteousness and being offended are closely connected.

Are you 'offended' by what is written above? If so, ask yourself who is the one creating (choosing) the state of being offended.

I found the list of choices of sexual orientation interesting on social, political, religious and biological levels. While living in this matrix of deception, the 'prod' of this survey question seems designed to inflame ... divide. The image of the survey question is another prop (as in theater prop) in the big control drama of 'divide and conquer'.

Perhaps I'm just wearing a tinfoil hat.

Think of what is possible when we see ourselves, collectively, as TOGETHER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3SvbjcuYU