The French do the best lighting anywhere on Earth. Here's my evidence. The halo around the tower here is the smoke from previous fireworks being lit up by super powerful blue spotlights. It looks like it's made of dry ice or something.
I planned the shoot to have reflections in the water, so we went to the closest bridge they allow people on during the event. You can see the lights in a train's windows as it crosses the bridge in the above photograph. The funny thing was, the driver really slowed down the train as they went over the bridge so they could get a good view. Why not!? Who's going to complain!?
This sequence of fireworks is cool in motion too, because the top fireworks shoot out one after another, until they go all the way around, like spokes of a wheel popping out from the hub.
Serious amounts of smoke in the air make for great special effects.
You simply couldn't see what you see in this picture with the human eye. All of the lights on the tower appear to be on at once, but they're sparkling all over the tower in real life. Keeping the camera shutter open for a few seconds means every light will have turned on at least once in that time, producing this shining tower of solid light.
More spectacular photos from other years!
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