Fireworks in honor of men

From our loggia, the windows are not only a good overview of the city, but also salutes and fireworks in honor of the big city holidays. A lot of people come specially to see, and we don’t need to leave the apartment. They salute near our house, almost opposite, in the square between the two rivers Oka and its tributary Orlik, or you can say near the place of their confluence.

In recent years, such events are held not only twice a year on May 9 and August 5 (city day), as it was before, but also on the Defender of the Fatherland Day. Today, festive fireworks were launched over the city.

We started shooting a little earlier than planned, 5 minutes before 20h. Fireworks lasted only 4 minutes and was quite modest.

Usually they start late, so this time I, of course, did not expect to start earlier. In general, I did not hear at first, as I was wearing headphones until my husband called. As a result, I saw a small part of the fireworks at all, and only a few frames managed to take a picture, and even then it was unsuccessful. The most beautiful final piece did not work at all. It turned out the individual pieces.

There were a lot less people today (as I saw from the loggia) than usual on other holidays, when they salute, they probably don’t get used to what they say so loudly now and on February 23rd.

Honestly, I feel sorry for the budget money for such events, but our region is poor, with a big debt. But on the other hand there are people for whom seeing salutes is a delight, almost a happiness. Beautiful, of course, when salutes. People come to see them, gathering companies with friends, relatives - there are reasons for joint meetings, joy. And this is great.

Russia today celebrates the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland. Shooting location city Eagle.