I mentioned Bonfire Night in previous post this week, but what is it and who was Guy Fawkes?
Bonfire Night, 5th November
We celebrate Bonfire Night 5th November around the UK and Isle of Man by building Bonfires and placing an effigy usually made by children, known as a guy on top of the Bonfire and finish of the night with organised Fireworks displays, mine being Ramsey Mooragh Park. A common practise in the lead up to Bonfire Night is for children to ask you for "a penny for the guy" they have made. Toffee apples are the biggest selling sweet around this time, but each area has a variant.
There you go. That's what Bonfire Night is and these are a few fireworks I took in Ramsey. Do you have anything like this in your part of the world?
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Lovely firework images. It seems as though we are having a whole week of Bonfire parties down here. :-)
ReplyDeleteThese are stunning images!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI had completely forgotten about Bonfire Night! Great shots.
ReplyDeleteNice bonfires!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful!!! I did not know that Bonfire Night was connected to Guy Fawkes. I remember learning about him somewhere along the line. :) Always an education at your site.
ReplyDeleteThey are great pictures. I haven't taken any firework photos in Glasgow, but took some in Sibiu last year (not for bonfire night - these were summer fireworks) so they will appear on the blog at some point. Most of them were rubbish, but there were a few I was pleased with.
ReplyDeleteI love your top picture especially, what great colours.
These are absolutely stunning shots.
ReplyDeleteI love that first one, but all of them are so pretty.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job photographing the fireworks. I find that hard to do and I'm impressed with these shots.
ReplyDeleteVery nice history! I have heard of this, but didn't have any details!
ReplyDeleteIf only I knew how, or had the camera, to catch fireworks as well as these.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, there are "babooshkas" on http://bostondailyphotoblog.blogspot.com/
Very interesting tradition. Love your shots. They are fabulous. Thanks for sharing this with us.
ReplyDeleteOh,these are beautiful,love it:o)
ReplyDeleteGreat photos and thanks for refreshing my memory with the great narrative.
ReplyDeleteDon't have anything like this in Texas. Back in the old days, we took cattle rustlers and horse thieves, and stretched their neck on the nearest Cottonwood tree.
Come visit,
Troy
Love your shots of fireworks.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of the fireworks, and interesting history of Guy Fawkes, Babooshka! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI did not have fireworks so thank you for sharing these.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures and as always a lovely write up.
Now these are the sort of photos I wanted to take. (Note to self - take tripod next year!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for fleshing out the details, I didn't know some of that.
Lovely set of photos!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the first one.
Have a nice weekend.
Babooshka: What a great story and we don't have anything like that. The closest we come is when we celebrate our independce with firworks, no effigy of anyone.
ReplyDeleteYour fireworks photos are really very good! We don't celebrate Guy Fawkes night, that stands to reason, but we have fireworks on the 30th April when we celebrate the Queen's birthday. And we have fireworks on New Year's Eve.
ReplyDeleteYou wrote a good post with a lot of interesting information.
I love you photos and all the interesting information. I knew about Guy Fawkes, but not all the details and it was great reading! Do love history. The fireworks are spectacular!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful fireworks, especially the first one.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous fireworks I especially like the blue ones. Very nice. I live in New York USA and we have a 4th of July celebration with fireworks and at some of the New Years Eve (Dec. 31) events there are fireworks. Bonefire night sounds found though.
ReplyDeleteVery very beautiful! So nice fires!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful celebration. Great shots and sky.
ReplyDeleteFANTASTIC shots as always. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Regina In Pictures
We threw Russell Brand as a Guy on.
ReplyDeleteCool fireworks.
There's only one thing wrong with these photos and that is....I didn't take them......They are fantastic especially the last one. Stunning. Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteNo bonfires, but we do celebrate Canada Day (July 1) with fireworks. ;-)
ReplyDeleteGuy Fawkes is an interesting part of history and your firework photos are fantatstic. Thanks for sharing with everyone in Sky Watch Friday.
ReplyDeleteGood photos for sky watch, it is always nice to see something different, well done.
ReplyDeleteStunning fireworks photos! Thanks for the explanation in your post...very interesting!
ReplyDeleteVery Nice! Fireworks are tricky but you got them. If you're interested check out my firework shots (in the tags) sometime.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Probably some of the best firework shots I've seen. Love em!
ReplyDeleteFantastic firework photos. Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night has good memories for me. It is celebrated here in New Zeland, but I don't understand why, because it seems a very British thing to me. I wrote about it on my blog here: http://crouchinggiraffe.blogspot.com/2008/11/guy-fawkes-night.html
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Kate
Great skywatch, Excellent photos, interesting post!
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ReplyDeleteYou nailed it! You guys kill me with your history.
Those are fabulous fireworks photos! =)
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job capturing the fireworks! I never seem to get the timing right!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my SWF! Have a wonderful weekend!
Brilliant fireworks. I love fireworks, they are illegal here now without a licence so we are only supposed to have big public displays. My area completely ignores this and so I get to see wonderful backyard fireworks displays at New Year - all totally illegal, of course.
ReplyDeleteThese are great shots of fireworks but even more I love the history behind the evening. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots. I really enjoyed the history. Thanks so much for sharing. Really like the pervious post.
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ReplyDeleteAmazing fireworks---really beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. The history you shared here about Guy Fawkes is pretty unique I think. Nothing like it in the U.S.A. that I know of. But I'm no historian. Have a great weekend!!
ReplyDeleteHi Babs, these are nice fireworks pictures. Thank you. We have a bonfire night at the University of Texas A & M (Aggies) about fifty miles from here.
ReplyDeleteOfficially the bonfire has been cancelled for several years when eleven were killed (burned to death) at the celebration.
I hadn't known about Guy Fawkes.
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Stunning!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining Bonfire Night, too.
Happy Sky Watching!
~Lisa
New Mexico, USA
Very beautiful! Enjoyed checking out your blog :^)
ReplyDeleteThe fireworks shots are fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI am assuming that you are celebrating Guy Fawkes for his effort and not that his plot was stopped? I do have trouble keeping my British history straight. Do I have this right?
Beautiful shots. You must have had all your camera settings perfect!
ReplyDeleteLovely fireworks that sparkled up the sky!! :)
ReplyDeleteBonfire Night! That brings back memories!
ReplyDeleteAnd your partner's cartoon is brilliant. I have a great friend here in Newcastle, Australia, who is the local cartoonist and he comes up with some brilliant things.
awesome photos!!!!! Happy SWF!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post. Love the photos and the history.
ReplyDeleteGreat fireworks photos...so clear! And great information about Guy Fawkes. I read a lot of English books that mention it but never completely understood. I suppose our 4th of July fireworks are the closest thing we have.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely spectacular fireworks shots. Well done. P.S. I did know the story of Guy Fawkes -- except for the "Guido" part. Guido Fawkes? Can't get over that one!!
ReplyDeletewow! incredibly beautiful captures!!
ReplyDeleteFirework never ever fail!!
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend from Anne in Norway.
Clear stunning captures. The first 2 are definitely my favs
ReplyDeleteThese are magical indeed! Bye and greetings from Croatia!
ReplyDeletesimply gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWow your fireworks are so stunning. Great photos and thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHappy SWF.
I've read a couple of day before an american blog explaining that particular historical moment. You illustrated it perfectly today. What kind of perfect camera do you get to take so wonderful pictures of fireworks? I wonder. Maybe it's your talent. It's great, Babooshka. Thanks to share, the History and the picture.
ReplyDeleteImposing picture of the fireworks - I have never managed that. But I'll try again the coming New Year's eve - if the weather holds....
ReplyDeletePictures that go with a BANG!
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Mind blowing!!
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous pics of fireworks!
ReplyDeleteWonderful sky-flowers!
ReplyDeletegood summary of the history - Ruby in York is going to use some of the info I sent her on her blog shortly.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to say that we haven't had too much noise from early fireworks this year.
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ReplyDeleteSuch vivid colours in the night sky! Absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteOh these are fun and bright... I do so much love the fireworks.... amazing! =)
ReplyDelete~Michele~
Mountain Retreat- Canada
Wow Babooshka, amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the history and congratulations for the photos, they are so nice! I love fireworks!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Wow, stunning shots of fireworks.
ReplyDeleteThank You for the good explain...
ReplyDeleteVery nice photos...
Excellent bonfires. Great idea for SWF.
ReplyDeleteSuch an interesting tradition! I knew nothing about any of that! It's ironic that you celebrate it with all that gunpowder (in the fireworks). Beautiful, no stunning captures of the fireworks. I love the one with the water reflecting the roman candle. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThat's a fabulous view, Babooshka! Grand!
ReplyDeleteAmazing pics! The first one is my favorite! Thank you for stopping by! :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome photos.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the best sky watch friday's posts I have ever seen!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fireworks,
ReplyDeletebut better not think about being tortured hung drawn and quartered! ;-)
Wow! Not much else to say is there?
ReplyDeleteSUPER great shots... Interesting information as usual...
ReplyDeleteWow your pics are amazing! I tried to take some of the fireworks and lets just say you couldn't tell what they were! x
ReplyDeleteNumber one and two are very special, I love the delicate composition.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos taken. We only have twice a year for fireworks.
ReplyDeleteReally nice photos of the fireworks. I have trouble with that type of photo with my inexpensive camera. :-)
ReplyDeleteImpressive! I've tried in vain to capture fireworks displays, and I have given up.
ReplyDeletegreat great night firework shots... beautiful... just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThere was LOTs to celebrate on Nov. 5! The fireworks were perfect for the
ReplyDeleteHistorical occasion!
I had to write a report on Guy Fawkes in 10th grade and that's how I know who he is...was. He would have been pleased with your great fireworks shots.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant photos! Growing up in the UK I know something of the Guy Fawkes history but yours was one of the most informative posts I have ever read on the subject and I learned a lot more. I also enjoyed your previous post on the election, so well written. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteGreat images, impressive, thank you!
ReplyDeleteLove the blue ones.
In the comic book series and later the movie "V for Vendetta", (futuristic tale, Sci-Fi thriller), "V" is dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask and is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes.
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful!! you are a master!
ReplyDeleteWOW!
ReplyDeleteGreat post :)
Amazing images, illuminating information, a TOP POST!
ReplyDeleteVery well done; thanks for inspiring us all to reah higher!
aloha from Waikiki!
Beautiful photos. I just wanted to tell you in India we have something like this event and it is called Diwali.
ReplyDeleteThe legend goes that Rama the incarnation of Vishnu kills Ravana a demon king and every year this event is celebrated by burning the effigy of Ravana. It is symbolically the victory of good over evil. And we burst a lot of crackers and burn enough fireworks to create smogs and traffic jams.
The events are the gist of Ramayana (one of the greatest Hindu epics the other being Mahabharatha)
I found it very cool and thought I would share it with you.
Keep doing the good job. :)
I have serious fireworks envy ..
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Stunning firework shots, Babooshka!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great surprise for SWF! Stunning shots!
ReplyDeleteGunpowder, Treason and Plot. Excellent series.
ReplyDeleteAmazing !
ReplyDeleteGreat fireworks pictures. I cant wait to try to take them again during 4th of July.
ReplyDeleteWOW, wonderful colors. Thanks for stopping by my blog!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos! It looks like a fun time for all.
ReplyDeleteWonderful fireworks shots!!! Happy SWF. :)
ReplyDeleteYou did a fabulous job capturing the fireworks. Well done! I spent a Guy Fawkes' Night in London in 2003, and it was quite noisy! What a fun holiday.
ReplyDeleteTruly awesome photos!
ReplyDeletePretty images! Nice story, interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat firewroks show makes my dark day too!
ReplyDeleteWonderful fireworks! 40 years ago we still celebrated gunpoder, treason and plot. Unfortunately in Australia the fire danger season has already started and fireworks are banned. It does save on eye injuries to the unexperienced or just plain stupid but takes out all the fun and excitement as well as the historical significance. Guy Fawkes day has been forgotten except for those of us who have long memories.
ReplyDeleteWonderful fireworks! 40 years ago we still celebrated gunpoder, treason and plot. Unfortunately in Australia the fire danger season has already started and fireworks are banned. It does save on eye injuries to the unexperienced or just plain stupid but takes out all the fun and excitement as well as the historical significance. Guy Fawkes day has been forgotten except for those of us who have long memories.
ReplyDeleteReally wonderful shot, I realy love it. We have something like this here in Bangkok to celebrate the King's birthday on every 5th of December.
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely fantastic shots and your explanation of Bonfire Night reminds me of what a gruesome lot we are!!
ReplyDeleteAt over 118 comments Babooshka, don't ever doubt that you are one of the best bloggers on the net. ;0)
Ah wonderful fireworks!!!!! Bonfire night is a sure hit!
ReplyDeleteI live this story!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous images!
ReplyDeleteGuy Fawkes night is celebrated every 5th Nov, here in New Zealand, it is not a holiday, but most people buy fireworks to let off, and its lovely to see all the sky rockets going up on the night.Sadly a few young guys abuse them so now days the sale of fireworks is very severely restricted. Also there are public desplays in most towns on that night. As daylight saving has started by then, we all have to wait til about 9.30pm for darkness to fall so we can let the rockets off. I love the night, not everyone does ofcause,
ReplyDeleteGuy Fawkes night is celebrated every 5th Nov, here in New Zealand, it is not a holiday, but most people buy fireworks to let off, and its lovely to see all the sky rockets going up on the night.Sadly a few young guys abuse them so now days the sale of fireworks is very severely restricted. Also there are public desplays in most towns on that night. As daylight saving has started by then, we all have to wait til about 9.30pm for darkness to fall so we can let the rockets off. I love the night, not everyone does ofcause,
ReplyDeleteStunning fireworks photos. It's reallg great and thanks for sharing. Also, thank you for dropping by in my SWF entry.
ReplyDeleteHow did you ever capture these? Amazing pix!
ReplyDeleteoohh how wonderful. More fireworks to enjoy. Yours were certainly very pretty.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely fireworks images!
ReplyDeletemost beautiful set of fireworks. Nice!
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