When I moved to Colorado, I should have spent more time looking for an apartment. In my haste, I chose one with a few great features and one bad one. Although it's on the top floor, and on the end, and has a great western-facing view of the Rocky Mountains' Front Range, it has one very annoying feature. It sits about 50 yards from a very busy and awfully LOUD highway. From about 5:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. all we hear is the constant roar of traffic. We have a great balcony - nice and large and shaded. But it too faces the highway. When we sit out there, we have to practically yell to hear each other.
But, on the 4th of July, I discovered one great thing about the apartment and the deck. We had a front row seat at the Highlands Ranch fireworks display. As soon as I heard the first "boom" outside, I grabbed my camera and tripod and set up on the deck. This was my first attempt at photographing fireworks. I didn't think much of the original images, but this afternoon I spent a few hours with them in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The slideshow is the final result. I hope you like them as much as I do. You can see the entire set of full size original images HERE.