Fireworks / Hanabi

[MartinOC]

August 2, 2009 at 12:48 pm

In Japan, at this time of summer, many fireworks festivals are held.
Many people, male and female, dress in ‘summer kimonos’ called yukata, and have picnics while watching.
This one lasted over an hour.

Fireworks = Hanabi ( 花火 ) which could be translated as Flowers of Fire.

Fujifilm 1600

Martin

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

[jessthespringer]

August 2, 2009 at 2:42 pm

I love the translation, flowers of fire, so elegant.

The first picture does indeed look like a flower of fire.
No. 4&6 are great, absolutely love the colour and atmosphere. Kinda retro.

Lovely.

Sinead

[MartinOC]

August 3, 2009 at 1:50 am

Thanks Sinead,
The colour itself comes from the film, it seems to colour shift in very low light.

Martin

[b318isp]

August 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm

I love #2, great capture of the scene and location.

[MartinOC]

August 5, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Cheers b318isp,
I went out with an intention to get a Japanese couple in their traditional gear, and I got the fireworks in too, so #2 is my fav too.

Martin

[Rob]

August 6, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Lovely photographs Martin, and thanks for the explanation too.
Great colours in these, and lots of atmousphere…

[MartinOC]

August 7, 2009 at 1:36 am

Cheers Rob

[jb7]

August 7, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Yes, good story-
that first one is spectacular, dandelion of fire…

Looks like there’s lots in them, larger, maybe?

Good stuff-

j

[Cookster]

August 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Nice shots martin, love the grain and soft tones.

c

[MartinOC]

August 9, 2009 at 11:32 am

Thanks Cookster and JB

jb7 wrote:

Looks like there’s lots in them, larger, maybe?
j

You can see them larger JB with a flickr slideshow

Here are two larger, but the it was handheld at f1.2 so won’t be overly sharp. My purpose in going there was more to shoot the festival than the fireworks, so I was handheld, but the area was very dark to get people shots.

Martin