Helen Stephenson's Chislehurst Rotary Fireworks Pictures, 6th November 2010

The best pictures of the guy are to be had by visiting the Recreation Ground during the afternoon, but one of the cats had an appointment to see the vet and I couldn't be in two places at once, so I had to content myself with photographing the guy on top of the bonfire in the evening before they turned the floodlights out and lit it.

Here is the bonfire itself, both with two Rotary Club marshalls in front of it and without any supervisory personnel present.

Then it was time for the bonfire to be lit. A convenient hole is built into the pallet structure where the honours can be done. When it's just starting up, the firelighters can be seen in front of the burgeoning fire, but it soon gets too hot for that!

The bonfire was soon going well. The first two pictures show the shadowy figure of the guy. The next two show a cross which was all that was left of the guy before much longer. Then there are some pictures which just show more flames.

I also turned my camera on the firelit trees and some of the watching crowd; and later I returned for a picture of the bonfire embers. I also shot a picture of part of the funfair with the crowd silhouetted in front of one of the attractions.

The rest of this page is devoted to pictures of the fireworks. I returned to my favoured super wide angle lens this year and had a high "hit rate" but I had to crop in on most of the pictures as the fireworks didn't fill the frame as much as I was anticipating, which was in part due to the display having been modified to ensure that nothing got too close to the crowd if the forecast north wind eventuated.