The COVID-19 pandemic killed a lot of fun activities over the past 2 years. One of the victims was 4rh of July fireworks. Most fireworks displays in 2020 and 2021 were simply canceled. And the July weather in southwest Florida is usually not conducive to fireworks – or so I have heard, as I have never been in Ft Myers in July. This year I was in residence, the weather was perfect and Ooma is a big fan of fireworks, so we took a room at the Best Western in North Fort Myers where we could watch the Fort Myers fireworks and, in the distance, the Cape Coral firworks, the Fort Myers Beach fireworks and the Bonitia Beach fireworks.
The fireworks were fine, though a little more distant than we expected. Fortunately there were some private fireworks set off from the nearby parking lot after that main event finished, so we got some up-close-and-personal fireworks, too. And taking pictures with my cell phone was interesting. I had no idea that some very good photos could be taken in very low light. The photo at the top, for example, was taken in near-total darkness. When I switched to “Nightscape” the photos were even brighter. You wouldn’t know that they were taken at night.
Anyway, it was a fine evening of fireworks and photography. I came down with a cold the next day, but that didn’t spoil the fun. A good time.
