Easy: watching fireworks.

Hard: standing up for an hour waiting for the fireworks to start.

Easy: photographing fireworks.  No, go with me.  Photographing fireworks in and of itself isn’t hard.  All you have to do is stand there and listen to the shutter go off like a machine gun.

Hard: actually capturing the feeling of being there.  Obviously there is the sound and of course the fact that a photograph can be quite flat at times.

To make this whole thing less flat, I choose to look at them in a different way.  Perhaps like stars, perhaps like a beautiful chiffon fabric, perhaps like jewelry.  Just something beyond a normal firework.

Let’s see what we got here: