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Cross Country Road Trip

By David Howland | Published August 27, 2012

The last couple weeks have been a hectic blur of packing all my belongings into my Subaru and moving across the country. In the last 4 days I’ve driven 2486 miles through two times zones and ten states. I passed one gigantic cow up on a hillside, sat in traffic in Chicago, and finally went to North Dakota. I’m now settled back into Bozeman, MT and furiously planning a weekend trip to Glacier National Park.

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2012 July 4th Fireworks

By David Howland | Published July 6, 2012

We had an extremely busy and hectic July 4th week here on Cape Cod. The holiday fell smack dab in the middle of the week this year. Usually we have one hugely busy, crowded weekend, but this year we’ve had a hugely busy weekend, followed by a hugely busy, crowded week. Good for businesses, I suppose.

At any rate, Monday, July 2 I drove out to Orleans to shoot the fireworks display over Rock Harbor. Lucked out big time on parking and managed to avoid the mile plus walk that most people endured. We watched a beautiful sunset over Cape Cod Bay and the fireworks started about 15 minutes after the sky got dark. I struggled a little bit with exposing these shots. I didn’t have a cable release so I was triggering (with a 2 second delay) various exposures ranging from 2″ to 10″. It seemed like whenever I went with a longer exposure, a huge burst of bright explosions would blow out the entire image. Whenever I went with a shorter explosion, everything would be too dim. Fireworks are tricky. If you’re interested in a print of any of these images, you can use the buttons at the bottom of this post to check out the various options.