In celebration of the start of a new academic year, Kent State sponsors a concert and a competitive array of fireworks.  The show was pretty extravagant, given that it’s a celebration of incoming students into one university – an event that seems certainly worthy of celebration, after all, ‘they’ are the future, but it was a little over the top for me.

Anyway, I gave photographing the show a shot; Night photography is very different and difficult, but here’s a few.