4th of July Fireworks in Rio Rancho, NM

Well, this 4th of July wasn't the most exciting and these photos aren't the greatest either but I decided to post them anyways. The 'Fireworks' setting on my Canon S2 didn't work as well as I'd hoped, but here are some photos that I thought looked okay. Some are a bit blurry but I like the way they look anyways... very alien and surreal.

This year we went to see the fireworks in Rio Rancho (Near Rio Rancho High School). We almost didn't get to see fireworks at all because the storm was heading towards our direction very quickly and a lot of people assumed that the fireworks were canceled and ran to their cars. We waited a little while there (about a third of the people there were already gone), and started heading towards our car too. The wind was blowing sand in our eyes and the lightning storm seemed like it was all around us (but still no rain). We were surprised then to see the fireworks go off. They shot them off around 9:15pm... an hour early. And surprisingly it never rained aside from a few sprinkles. The fireworks display really wasn't that impressive, but I felt lucky to have seen one at all. I love fireworks! ... especially the kind you can only buy on Native American land :)