Fireworks in Steamboat Springs!

Thanks to some great friends who just moved outside Steamboat Springs, we got to enjoy some time at Steamboat Lake complete with a bonfire and fireworks display! We had a great weekend in Steamboat, and this was definitely a highlight, although the camera settings were completely the opposite of those snowy photos taken during the day!

I was shooting with my Nikon D700 at 5000 ISO and about 1/6th of a second - some of the time I had to lean against the house to stabilize the camera. But as most night shots like this, I did get a lot of bad blurry photos! It was also hard to judge the contrast between the bonfire and the surroundings! Oh yeah, trying to follow the path of the fireworks in the dark was a challenge too!