I think Alicia may have won the challenge.

At Aunt Jan’s , the fireworks were launched pretty much right behind the palm trees.  While that worked pretty well for some shots, it was hard to frame a good burst without either cutting off the tops of the trees or having only the tops of the trees in the bottom of the frame.  On top of that, the camera had trouble with auto focus and manual focus was hard to get right.  I tried f22 to offset focus problems, but that didn’t allow enough light in.  Finally I was able to manually focus on a burst and then leave it set that way.  I had to use f4.5 with a 10 second shutter speed to get multiple bursts because there was a lot of delay between shots.  I also had to just frame the palm trees and keep the shots that burst in that frame.

The worst part is that the breeze that always blows in from the ocean was carrying all the smoke toward us so many of the bursts were behind the smoke.

Below is my best entry into the challenge.  I like it mostly because the burst looks a little bit like a larger, lighted palm tree.

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Lessons learned:
– Manually focus on the first burst and then leave it.
– f4.5 works well at 10 seconds except when they did do rapid fire.  Then you end up with way too much light.
– ALWAYS find a place to watch up wind.  In this case that will always be from a boat which would prevent long exposures because of the rocking of the boat!

This is one of Alicia’s entries from the “qualifying round” with a little bit of cropping.  I think it wins… until she posts something even better from the final round!