Saturday, January 06, 2007
chasing fire(works)
a Happy New Year to everyone...
I finally got to shoot a New Year fireworks spectacle. I situated myself at Makati City that night. My brother from the US was tagging along with me.
I had planned to shoot the fireworks from a flyover along Edsa so I could capture the skyline as well. But the location of the fireworks was not desirable, so the option for most photographers that night was to shoot somewhere else (namely, in Manila).
I stood my ground by staying in Makati.
It was relatively a nice shoot. The fireworks was announced to last for 20 minutes.
The thing about not shooting for the past week though was that I failed to check on my equipment, particularly the batteries.
So, as the fireworks was about to end, my camera's battery emptied out on me.I had transferred to another street and I had left my spare battery in the car which was about a 150 meters away from me.
I had 30 seconds to run back to the car. And that 30 seconds turned out to be the last 30 seconds of the fireworks display.
