Ala Moana July 4th Fireworks - 7/11/2011

This year I was lucky to be able to catch the Ala Moana fireworks from a prime spot from the 24th floor. We even got to use the parking and not have to deal w/ the massive traffic leaving from Ala Moana center. I had no idea how big the fireworks would get so I couldn't figure out whether to use a long zoom lens or a wide lens. While waiting, I took a shot of the Ala Wai Harbor.So the fireworks finally started at 8:30pm.. alnost immediately, I realized my lens of choice was wrong since the firework was larger than I expected. I finally switched to the wide 16-35mm lens and tried to see if I could capture multiple bursts by covering the lens w/ my jacket between bursts. The results came out cool, but the background came out kinda underexposed..This one went off really low...The white bursts are really hard to capture w/o blowing out. I tried boosting the saturation in PSE.
After looking thru all my shots, I found this one that looked like a daisy. I don't even remember seeing this while watching the show.The bursts were larger and closer together as it got closer to the finale.After the Ala Moana Show was done, we could even see far off in the distance, another fireworks show in the Pearl Harbor area as well.