Montreal International Fireworks Competition - Philippines

It's a night off for L'International Des Feux Loto-Québec this week as we are down to one show a week.  This works out well since I can use to extra day to finally catch up with the shows.  These photographs are from this past Saturday night when the Philippines had their turn at blowing up the sky over Montreal.  Dragon Fireworks, established in 1992 and making their first appearance in Montreal, were in charge of the evening and themed their performance around the music of movies, television series and video games.  There's something cool about watching fireworks go off to the themes from Super Mario Bros, Tetris and The Imperial March from Star Wars. To shoot the photographs, I may have tip-toed into a restricted area.  I went under some police tape and snuck along a fence, as much as someone my size can sneak, into a grassy area between the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the highway that passed under it.  This gave me a clear view of the fireworks, the bridge and the highway,  which added some lights from the passing cars to the ones in the sky.  The first photograph was taken at f/16, 51sec, ISO 100 at 24mm.  The second photograph was taken at f/16, 25sec, ISO 100 at 24mm and the third photograph was taken at f/16, 10sec, ISO 100 at 24mm.  Here are a few more photographs that I took during the show.

f/16, 25sec, ISO 100 at 24mm

f/16, 10sec, ISO 100 at 24mm

f/16, 25sec, ISO 100 at 24mm

There are still a couple of shows left, but I have an early contender for favourite fireworks photograph of the competition.  I really like the second photograph in this update.  There are three different kind of fireworks exploding and I also managed to keep the shutter open long enough to catch the lights of the passing police cars.  A little bit of skill, clandestine moves and luck.  An eventful evening indeed.