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I knew in advance that every friday night there were fireworks on the beach next to the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort and that we’d have a great view of them from our living room and balcony of our hotel (one of the reasons I’d requested a room on this side)

With this in mind we had dinner in our dining room in plenty of time for the 7:45PM kickoff. The rest of the family relaxed inside and watched through our panoramic living room windows which looked straight out over this. I’d setup on the balcony earlier and taken in a very nice sunset along with twilight and the blue which followed

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

Sunset in Paradise

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 4 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Paradise Blue

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm, 20.00 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Personally I wished they’d run the fireworks about twenty five minutes earlier (when the above image was taken) so that we could have had some twilight blue sky to go along with the lit buildings and the fireworks display – but alas the fireworks started right on time at 7:45 about 50 minutes after sunset and twilight had pretty much faded from the sky

Seeing Red

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm, 4.20 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Hilton Fire

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm, 7 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Fire Away

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm, 6.30 sec at f/8, ISO 100

The show was good (fireworks are always a winner with the kids… and kids at heart :)) and I found with timing some longer exposures I could add a little more (light pollution) colour to the sky

Fireworks in Paradise

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 50 mm, 12 sec at f/8, ISO 100

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