Happy Canada Day by laurentye

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!

I had such a fun Canada day, it was really one of the best I've had in years!
Husband and I spent some time taking in some of the festivities at the legislative grounds, then went for a picnic and paddle boating. Later in the evening we went for coffee and walked around a bit before heading to our firework watching spot on the side of a hill. The fireworks display was excellent and I was happy that I brought my camera along.

Perfect day.

*wasn't sure which fireworks picture to post, so I let my husband pick. I had to crop this one to get rid of the tops of some buildings.

It's very late here now, so heading to sleep, will catch up tomorrow with viewing/commenting. Have a great weekend!
awesome shot, fav for me!
July 2nd, 2011  
Fantastic! Happy Canada day to you!
July 2nd, 2011  
@harsha @cath thank you both :)
July 2nd, 2011  
Great chioce of shot by your husband Lauren. Glad you both had a perfect day. The detail is perfect here & the colours so wonderful - awesome shot. PS the fireworks look like feathers in some cases - well done
July 2nd, 2011  
SOOO GOOOD!!!!!!!!!!! love it :)
July 2nd, 2011  
Gorgeous firework shot! Glad you had a nice day :) It's so interesting how some countries really celebrate their national days, while others barely acknowledge them.
July 2nd, 2011  
Great shot here... glad you had a good time. There were celebrations in London on Trafalgar Square (which is where the Canadian High Commission is)... nothing quite like this, though.
July 2nd, 2011  
Wonderful capture. Nicely done, I've tried these and like my moon shots, they never work out.
July 2nd, 2011  
Great capture of the fireworks! :)
July 2nd, 2011  
Glad you had a great day, Lauren. Did you notice the firework that looks like a giant spider?
July 2nd, 2011  
@lacedxxoo thanks Lacy!
@alia_801 thanks! i always wonder how other counties celebrate. I know the US really celebrate too on july 4th, but not sure anywhere else??
@mshepherdson thanks Matthew, it really was a great time!
@bobg thanks Bob. never tried a moon shot yet, but i want to. for this i actually searched on here first to see what sort of shutter spead other people used, then tried the same :)
@karens68 thanks!
@anron now i think the white one on the left looks like a spider, lol
July 2nd, 2011  
@laurentye Yup, thats what I thought! :)
July 2nd, 2011  
good fireworks capture
July 2nd, 2011  
Awesome!
July 2nd, 2011  
this is really HOT!!
July 2nd, 2011  
Cool capture. Lovely.
July 2nd, 2011  
@hjbenson @naomi @jodimuli @megswarren thank you guys! i had fun!
July 2nd, 2011  
This is awesome! I tried to take pictures of fireworks last week and I failed miserably! Fav!
July 2nd, 2011  
Fantastic
July 2nd, 2011  
@meggageg wow thanks Meagan really appreciate it!
July 2nd, 2011  
July 2nd, 2011  
oh Canada! - Great fireworks catch - not easy to catch either
July 2nd, 2011  
pat
great capture ! a fav !
July 2nd, 2011  
@peterauliciems thank you!
@pawat24 thanks pat and for the fav!
July 3rd, 2011  
Looks awesome!!
July 3rd, 2011  
Awesome shot and Happy Canada Day to you!
July 3rd, 2011  
You did a great job capturing the fireworks!
July 3rd, 2011  
This is amazing--beautiful capture
July 3rd, 2011  
Perfect captured lauren! I never got a good firework photo, myself. GREAT!
July 3rd, 2011  
@kidatheart @exposure4u @pilots_wife @clarissajohal @deniseescovino
thank you for the very lovely comments. I was pretty happy to finally try firework shots and had lots of fun taking them!
July 3rd, 2011  
That sounds such a nice day out, we don't celebrate British day, or rather English day - basically we moan all the time so no one would turn up for English day anyway. We're all just saving up to move to Canada!
July 3rd, 2011  
Strangely, the bottom fireworks remind me of tarantulas.
July 3rd, 2011  
Glad you had a great day. The weather seemed to be good for most.
July 3rd, 2011  
@chewyteeth laughing at your "moaning all the time" comment lol. do you guys really not celebrate???! well next year you can come to Canada to celebrate with us!
July 4th, 2011  
@sabresun Matt that's funny, Anita said that it looked like a spider to her too!
July 4th, 2011  
@russianblue thanks! it was perfect weather!
July 4th, 2011  
these are perfect ! love them
July 4th, 2011  
@laurentye all that's between me and moving to Canada is a winning lotto ticket.
July 4th, 2011  
such a great shot this one is!! i was away camping so we never got to see fire works this year. Kind of sad, but we did manage to buy a few of our own to set off down at the lake which was fun too :)
July 5th, 2011  
Happy (belated) Canada Day!!
July 8th, 2011  
beautiful!
July 8th, 2011  
These are beautiful!
July 8th, 2011  
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