Bond Fire Night

Remember, remember, the 5th of November; The gunpowder and treason plot; I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot
Fireworks displays all over England and the view from our balcony was one hell of a beautiful sight that lasted well over 5 hours! I bet that the Air Pollution Index (API) peaked on this night.

Fireworks at Roundhay Park, Leeds. The show lasted 45 minutes.

HF & I, with Asa, among thousands of people observing the Bond Fire Night on Roundhay Park. The air smelt of gunpowder and was thick with smoke. It was cold, about 3 degrees centigrade (my nose knows).

Here with Asa who's from Sweden agreed with HF that a roast turkey (or any meat) would be perfectly ideal that moment. I only smirked.

Painting with lights using fireworks as subjects always creates satisfying and beautiful effects, only when it's done properly.

Ecstatic moment.

Painting with light #2.

Painting with light #3. At this time it was almost towards the end of the show -- the pyrotechnics' moment of excitements!

Painting with light #4: The grand finalè -- did not reach climax. It wasn't all that fantastic to be fracking honest. All there was was this huge boom with a large fountain effect. I rate it 6/10. Could have been much better. I guess they burnt all the 'good stuffs' in the past 44 minutes.

A little girl in her wonderland with a stick of crackling fireworks, which I had asked for when I noticed a group of people behind us had packets of them. I offered to buy one and was refused at first but was then given one, I think, out of sympathy. At least, it works!

We've got just one stick of firework that gave us a good 5 minutes of thrill. We took turns to take pictures like this and it almost ran out on me. Good times.
Barricades were in placed at least 50m from the bond fire as the heat from the fire was so intense that people would stretch out to warm their hands.