November 2020. Bhagsu Nag, Himachal Pradesh, India.

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November 2020. Bhagsu Nag, Himachal Pradesh, India.
November 2020. Bhagsu Nag, Himachal Pradesh, India.

A few fireworks shots from Diwali celebrations here a few weeks ago. These are all shot from my balcony.
This is my fourth Diwali in India and being in a small mountain town it was certainly the quietest I have experienced. Having said that it is still an eye opener for some one from Australia. In most Australian states fireworks are either illegal for the general public or heavily restricted. In India it is a complete free for. Corner stores move other goods and replace them with an array of different crackers, and roadside stalls pop up selling nothing else. It isn't just little crackers either, you can some serious bang for very few bucks here. The big multicolour ones that achieve some serious height are only a couple of dollars each, while bottle rockets and smaller fireworks are 5c-60c each.
There are also very few restrictions as to who can set them off and where they can be set off, and even those restrictions are generally ignored. It is 24 hours of almost non stop explosions even in a small town like this.
When I spent Diwali in Mumbai in 2015 it was more like three days of complete madness.
Personally I am not a fan of fireworks and my asthma is a constant problem at this time of year due to the pollution. In India I also feel very sorry for the huge number of street dogs (and other animals) who are terrified by the constant explosions.
However they do make for great photo subjects. I clicked hundreds of images like this over just a three hour period on my balcony. With the residents of nearly every home or hotel in town setting them off it there are constant explosions in every direction. I had to even move the tripod well back from the edge of the balcony to avoid the regular showering of sparks, and several close misses from stray bottle rockets (I was hit by a large bottle rocket in Mumbai and I can assure you it is not much fun - it probably didn't help that I was tripping heavily on acid when that happened in 2015).

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Taken on: November 14, 2020
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