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PHOTO FEATURE: Fireworks

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Taken from the balcony of the former On The Front restaurant overlooking Sarnia Bay, on Canada Day 2010. Bruce Smith

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Bruce Smith is a Sarnia photographer who over the past two years has provided The Journal with a wide range of outstanding sport photos.

But he has another, even greater, passion – shooting fireworks displays, a sampling of which we’re happy to present here.

“I have been making fireworks photographs since I started making pictures more then 30 years ago,” Smith said.

“The hard part is, I have a limited time of the year when I can shoot (and it’s just) once a year.”

Smith has recently begun setting up two cameras at his location shoots up and down the St. Clair River.

The different lenses and angles provide a different take on each shot, he said.

An iPad is used to control the timing of one camera and he manually works the other.

“I see fireworks as very similar to sports photography,” he said. “You need to be prepared and you have a limited amount of time to make the shot – and then it’s gone!”

For more of Smith’s fireworks photography visit www.photogarage.ca/projects/fireworks/

Canada Day fireworks from Sarnia's Point Lands on July 1, 2014. Bruce Smith
Canada Day fireworks from Sarnia’s Point Lands on July 1, 2014.
Bruce Smith
From the 2013 Canada Day fireworks, which were launched from a barge in the St. Clair River. Bruce Smith
From the 2013 Canada Day fireworks, which were launched from a barge in the St. Clair River.
Bruce Smith
Looking across the St. Clair River to the Port Huron shoreline and the Mackinac yacht race festivities on July 14 of this year. Bruce Smith
Looking across the St. Clair River to the Port Huron shoreline and the Mackinac yacht race festivities on July 14 of this year.
Bruce Smith
U.S. Independence Day fireworks in St. Clair, Michigan, as seen from the gravel docks in Courtright, July 4, 2016. Bruce Smith
U.S. Independence Day fireworks in St. Clair, Michigan, as seen from the gravel docks in Courtright, July 4, 2016.
Bruce Smith
From this year's Canada Day celebrations overlooking Sarnia Bay. Bruce Smith
From this year’s Canada Day celebrations overlooking Sarnia Bay.
Bruce Smith
U.S. Independence Day fireworks in St. Clair, Michigan, as seen from the gravel docks in Courtright, July 4, 2016. Bruce Smith
U.S. Independence Day fireworks in St. Clair, Michigan, as seen from the gravel docks in Courtright, July 4, 2016.
Bruce Smith
From the Sarnia Yacht Club on Labour Day, 2014, with the Blue Water Bridge in the background. Bruce Smith
From the Sarnia Yacht Club on Labour Day, 2014, with the Blue Water Bridge in the background.
Bruce Smith

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