Tacoma Fireworks 08: Jed Smith cleans debris from the 6" mortar tubes.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Chris Nelson with a giant, heavy, steel 10" mortar tube.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Andrew "Drew" Sullivan makes like a DOT worker.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Andrew "Drew" Sullivan, Ann Nelson, Chris Nelson, Jed Smith and Brad
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Jed Smith cuts open a fan-effect box, Chris Nelson considers peeing into the waterway, since the ramp is 20' out of reach and we are effectively stuck on the barge until the tide comes in.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Brad, with nacho.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: The tug Island Wind taking us to our firing port in Commencement Bay.
Tacoma Fireworks: Jed Smith makes like. . . Jed Smith.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: The Kalakala, a beautiful Art-Deco ferry that used to ply the Puget Sound, then became a salmon cannery in Kodiak, Alaska, and is now back in the Puget sound, to perhaps some day become a museum/conference center? http://www.kalakala.org
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Cool old power plant.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Drew Sullivan hangs out "outside the wall" of the barge as we motor to the firing point.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: My feet. I just liked the photo.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Super Fireman Jed! And Brad.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Chris Nelson in turnouts, looking intelligent as usual.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Jed contemplates the future of a cherry, and some Doritos, as we wait for the the show to start. Note Chris making almost exactly the same face in the background.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: The ready-to-launch barge as we motor to the firing point.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Jed "Toledo" Smith sits on the wall of the barge while we wait for the show to start.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: BLAM! 5" shells taking off
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Probably the best photo of the actual fireworks that I took. From directly underneath.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Drew and Jed ham it up in front of launching fireworks. Chris is oblivious to them, basking in the glory of the conflagration.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Drew Sullivan as the box effects launch.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Drew turns to witness the low break of a 6". Thankfully the only low break of the evening.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Chris Nelson's first solo album cover: Scarlet Fireman
Tacoma Fireworks 08: BLAM! The 6" shell is on it's way, raining burning debris onto the barge.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: Blam! Looks like some 6" shells taking off.
Tacoma Fireworks 08: The finale starts. Multiple multi-shell boxes in the foreground, multiple 5" shells on the left.
