Riverfest II

This is one particular day of the year where Australians find that they have no place to spend their additional money, so they decided to waste it on huge amounts of fireworks; and they call it "Riverfest".

I guess this festival is the english version of one of our chinese festival, "端午节". The origin of our chinese version was that we throw huge amounts of ba-zhang into the river in an attempt to distract the fishes from eating a particular guy's body.

Aussies are richer, they use fireworks to scare away the fishes.

Ok craps aside, this was the 2nd year running that I've been to this Riverfest. Last year was very disappointing for me. I went to the city too late and didnt manage to grab a good spot to take my pictures.

A True Singaporean At Heart never does the wrong things twice.

I reached my targeted spot (Southbank) round 3 hours before the start of the "Scare the fucking fish away" Festival and guess what. There were already these many people.

The arrow marks the spot where I eventually chose to settle down. The advantage of the spot was its excellent geographical and strategical location and not to forget the chicks that were sitting beside me.

Below is the picture of the Brisbane City taken from a bridge which connected South bank to the city.

Before the start of the mainshow, there was this show by the planes. The thing was when they first came, there were six planes. When they left, only four planes flew off. Know why? Cause apparently two planes hit some birds and they flew back to HQ.

Picture below: Notice the bridge under the planes? That's the connecting bridge I was talking about.

The barge below is parked in the middle of the river. Purpose being it will be firing fireworks in the middle of the sea as well.

Brisbane City approaching sunset, approaching Mission: Scare The Fucking Fishes Away.

Exactly 7pm was the start of the Riverfest and its introduction for the show was also one of its main highlight, two fighter planes flying over the bridge at extreme low altitude. As this is the main highlight, its pictures shan't be shown until the end of this entry =)

Fireworks......

More fireworks.....

More and more fireworks shooting from the top of the buildings...

Fireworks again....

Usual.......

Ok now this is bit more interesting. Fireworks were being let off from the bottom of the bridge. And for your information, on top of the bridge is totally packed with people.

MORE MORE MORE FIREWORKS....

SCARE THE FUCKING FISHES AWAY!!

Actually for people who are using amateur camera like me, I believe you guys know how hard it is to take nice pictures of fireworks right? Cause most of the time the photos will be very blurry due to the poor lighting.

Now I shall reveal the secrets to taking not-that-jialat pictures of fireworks. The trick is simple. I took over 800 pictures for this fireworks alone. No matter how bad you get, there will surely be at least one or two nice pictures.

I am so smarrttttttt =)

There is only one certain regret I have for this year. Once again, I failed to take decent pictures of the fighter planes flying past the bridge. So I have no choice but to get pictures from my friends' friends' friends who are using professional camera. So yeah, you can imagine the standard of the pictures. Please dont use it to compare with my Canon Ixus 850IS~

Picture below: Should be taken from some residential building in the city. Notice the line of fire from the back of the fighter plane? Yeah the view was spectacular but it didn't really look like this. There was indeed fire from the back but not that long. I speculate it was done using slow shutter speed which created this "image" of a long stream fire.

Picture below: Taken from some hills thats overlooking the city.

Picture below: Notice there are boats parked in the middle of the river. These are rich asses who doesnt want to squeeze in with the crowd.