Collection of 54 fireworks photographs. Photographed at Cravath Lake Park, Whitewater, Wisconsin, during the 4th of July Celebration, July 3-4, 2021.

Fireworks displays are popular because they are beautiful and often quite spectacular. As humans, we see them unfold instant by instant, millisecond by millisecond, in real-time.

My approach to photographing fireworks is to step out of real-time and to distill multiple-second segments of the performance into individual still photographs, images that could not have been witnessed directly by a human.