@ HIMNL9 Glad you like my big'a balls LOL
I have a licence to do this and have done it profes' for many years I don't go on the road any more and only do a couple shows a year but I am president of our states fireworks club The Oregon Sky Jewlers so I guess that gives me the right to have such pretty big'a balls LOL
and I know how the Italian pyro's put up there shells they love it when it's cloudy because the salute's reverberate off the clouds it makes them use even more salutes in there displays. I have shot with Zamballi the best here in the USA and they use more salutes than any other company I have shot for. You have a fine day there in Italy !!!
Peace All...
Yep, we had a religious festivity 3 weeks ago, with night fireworks too (they do it each year) ..... and guess ? ..... my house is in front of the place where they shoot them
Other than this, we're on a lake, and all those pyro shows are made on the lake, from floating platforms (in the past there was a special boat, but now are just platforms and remote control ignitors) ..... this mean that fireworks maker don't have to take care about ignited falling parts, so the shells are very big and almost 1/4 of the sparks and flares ends in the water still burning (and for this, effects are also a lot more big than usual on-the-earth ones, and last longer
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This year we had a good 25 minutes of assorted salutes, common multicolor stars shells, "cracklers", floating fountains and floating shrapnel stars bombs (the advantage of shooting them on the water is that there's also fires that you can't use on the ground
), "high flowers" (stripes of magnesium stars like trunks, with shrapnel stars at the top like flowers), sparks cascades (sparks rains ?), some "jupiter" (are a single-shot shells that form a ball of red stars, with a symmetrical ring of green stars around, very big), some not-so-usual "crazy worms" (many little rockets that come out from the shell in random directions and making random paths, with a magnesium sparks tail), and some that i never seen before, a very big shell, that shatter in 7 shells, that shatter again in 7 shells each one, then all together explodes in "spark rain", but the final extension was almost 50 meters (but may be more, is difficult to estimate from ground), and the sparks falls very slowly, changing color ..... this one was new, at least, not seen it the last years.
Don't know the english names for the ones that they have shooted this time, cause varies from region to region, but i'm sure you know what they are
Anyway, i envy you ..... i know you're a professional, but here, no way for have a permission like the ones that you can have there ..... also here there's professional firework makers, but you can work and store them only in specialized places, with specific locations and protections, far from houses, and so on ..... no way for have them at home
