Fourth of July Fireworks at Torrance Beach, July 2008

We saw the show down at Torrance Beach last night. I brought along the Canon 20D and 17-55 f2.8 IS. I had some good luck with the pictures, the favorites are up here:
http://canghuixu.smugmug.com/keyword/5334415uje2n-favorite

And the whole gallery is up here...
http://canghuixu.smugmug.com/gallery/5334415_ujE2n

I was pleased with the results if only because there were a number of shots at very long exposures, handheld. I used Adobe Lightroom to process the pictures. As I become more familiar with it, I am more and more impressed.

Here are some of my favorites...

As the show in Torrance was winding down, the show in Hermosa Beach was winding up... Here are some people on their way out of Torrance Beach stopping to look at the show in Hermosa...

Some kids watching the beginning of the show...

Fern Canyon at Prairie Creek State Park, June 2008, with a map view...

Now I am curious to see whether I can simply drop a map generated by smugmug into an iframe... here goes...



Looks OK, except it would be nice to find some way of getting rid of the header and the right column with the thumbnails. I guess for the time being I will stick with the approach of importing the KML feed to Google Maps and generating code for embedding there.