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My wife has very itchy feet — if a good deal comes up on airfare to a place we haven’t been before, we’re there. For a weekend, anyway.

So this sort of thing landed us in St. Louis, Missouri on the 4th of July weekend this year. It’s a great place to visit — good food, lots of museums and parks and gardens. Oh, and the Gateway Arch — what a gift to photographers! Fortunately, I had plenty of time to do web-based research (i.e., surfing) before our trip, and I found that St. Louis fires off it’s 4th of July fireworks from barges on the Mississippi river just east of the arch.

So on the 4th (in daytime), we were wandering around downtown St. Louis — doing the museum thing, and such. Meanwhile, I was scouting spots that we could watch the fireworks from. It turns out that there’s an old historic courthouse with a clear view to the arch and river to its east. I guessed that this would be a good spot to watch the fireworks from later that night.

I was right:

I’ll talk more about this series of images in a later post, but this is definitely one of my favorites from the session. I think the colors turned out wonderfully — the fireworks sort of look like some odd neon-lit bamboo forest.

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