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The England cricket teamk taking the field for their morning semi final game against India in the cricket at Edgbaston Stadium. They had won all their group games and must have been confident going into the semi final.
McDonnell Douglas F-15D Eagle of the 433d Weapons Squadron of the USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB at the 2016 "Aviation Nation" Open House and Air Show held at Nellis AFB, November 12-13, 2016.
Fireworks in August - it was someone's private party, but there's nothing private about fireworks.
Had to tweak it a bit to bring out the smoke, but they were sending up a lot of the ones with multiple explosions & they pretty much lit up everything
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #10 - Playing with fire (safely). Isn't that what sparklers are about?
My son manned the camera and I moved the sparkler. It's hard to tell in the dark just what you're recording and I was a bit exuberant so he cut off some of the action, but I still like this!
We only played with it for a short time, but I have 3 sparklers left, we'll have to see what other effects we can get.
Heading towards the finale of the pyrotechnic display, which I have to say, was one of the best co-ordinated displays I have ever seen – it was amazing!
I am going all out of my saved images and deciding to share the whole world with my adventures!!!
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Pyrotechnics specialist lights up a fireworks display at the 17th Chinese New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival
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I'm not quite sure what this is but I found it on a shrub in my local park at Thornes in Wakefield, West Yorkshire UK.
I think it's the aftermath of a flowering as there were still flowers on other parts of the shrub, maybe someone can enlighten me.
However it caught my eye and I thought it would make an interesting picture.
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic, cultural, and religious purposes. A fireworks event (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics) is a display of the effects produced by firework devices. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places. Fireworks take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke and floating materials (confetti for example.) They may be designed to burn with flames and sparks of many colors, typically red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, silver and gold. Displays are common throughout the world and are the focal point of many cultural and religious celebrations.
Fireworks are generally classified as to where they perform, either as a ground or aerial firework. In the latter case they may provide their own propulsion (skyrocket) or be shot into the air by a mortar (aerial shell). The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube or casing filled with the combustible material, often pyrotechnic stars. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of sparkling shapes, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework, although the first skyrockets were used in war. Such rocket technology has also been used for the delivery of mail by rocket and is used as propulsion for most model rockets. The aerial shell is the backbone of today's commercial aerial display. A smaller version for consumer use is known as the festival ball in the United States. There are also ground fireworks which, while less popular than aerial fireworks, can produce various shapes, like rotating circles, stars and 3D globes.
The earliest documentation of fireworks dates back to 7th century China (time of the Tong Dynasty), where they were invented. The fireworks were used to accompany many festivities. Chinese people originally believed that the fireworks could expel bad ghosts and bring about luck and happiness. It is thus a part of the culture of China and probably had its origin there; eventually it spread to other cultures and societies. The art and science of firework making has developed into an independent profession. In China, pyrotechnicians were respected for their knowledge of complex techniques in mounting firework displays.
During the Song Dynasty (960–1279), many of the common people could purchase various kinds of fireworks from market vendors, and grand displays of fireworks were also known to be held. In 1110, a large fireworks display in a martial demonstration was held to entertain Emperor Huizong of Song (r. 1100–1125) and his court. A record from 1264 states that a rocket-propelled firework went off near the Empress Dowager Gong Sheng and startled her during a feast held in her honor by her son Emperor Lizong of Song (r. 1224–1264). Rocket propulsion was common in warfare, as evidenced by the Huolongjing compiled by Liu Ji (1311–1375) and Jiao Yu (fl. c. 1350–1412). In 1240 the Arabs acquired knowledge of gunpowder and its uses from China. A Syrian named Hasan al-Rammah wrote of rockets, fireworks, and other incendiaries, using terms that suggested he derived his knowledge from Chinese sources, such as his references to fireworks as "Chinese flowers".
With the development of chinoiserie in Europe, Chinese fireworks began to gain popularity around the mid-17th century. Lev Izmailov, ambassador of Peter the Great, once reported from China: "They make such fireworks that no one in Europe has ever seen." In 1758, the Jesuit missionary Pierre Nicolas le Chéron d'Incarville, living in Beijing, wrote about the methods and composition on how to make many types of Chinese fireworks to the Paris Academy of Sciences, which revealed and published the account five years later. His writings would be translated in 1765, resulting in the popularization of fireworks and further attempts to uncover the secrets of Chinese fireworks.
Amédée-François Frézier published his revised work Traité des feux d'artice pour le spectacle (Treatise on Fireworks) in 1747 (originally 1706), covering the recreational and ceremonial uses of fireworks, rather than their military uses.
Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 to celebrate the Peace treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which had been declared the previous year.