by Brandon
May 25, 2010 01:41 AM
My girlfriend and I attended the grand opening event of Erin's Pavilion at the Edwin Watts Southwind Park here in Springfield on May 19. Southwind Park, unlike most parks, was designed from the beginning to be accessible to all people with special needs. Erin's Pavilion, the park's welcome and visitor center, is the park's main attraction. The event we attended served as a public open house for the pavilion, with guided tours, tram rides around the trails, speeches and refreshments. A privately funded fireworks show concluded the evening's events.
Springfield had been doused with rain for several days prior to that Wednesday's grand opening event. Luckily, the weather that evening was clear, perfect for a fireworks show. We took our cameras and got several shots of the pavilion and some nice shots of the fireworks show.
To shoot the fireworks, I mounted my Canon 50D camera on my tripod, changed to my EF-S 10-22mm wide-angle lens, set the shutter speed to bulb mode and attached my RS-80N3 cable release to the camera body. Since I've only ever briefly photographed fireworks before that evening, I quickly searched for photographing fireworks via my iPhone and found a nice, concise article on photographing fireworks via kenrockwell.com.
You can find out more about Southwind Park and the Erin's Pavilion grand opening event in these articles at the SJ-R:
Erin's Pavilion opens today at Southwind Park
Erin's Pavilion opens at Southwind Park
Check out our photos at the SmugMug gallery. The photos were shot by both my girlfriend and I.
