Happy new year 2014, Fireworks shots. Oslo Harbour

Looks like quite a show with a great vantage point. i like the first shot.

Thanks for sharing and happy new year. Looking forward to some geeses/duck shots-brian

Oslo eh? At least you get fireworks. And decent tv entertainment with cabaret and/or standup comedy, and good parties over there I'm guessing.

I'm in Canada. North America has truly become a third world for new year's celebrations. What people tend to do here, is not party anymore these days at all. Younger people attend these absolutely retarded outdoor concerts that they put on, with garbage like Justin Bieber and a bunch of unknown crap. I literally feel sorry for how younger people are missing out these days. In my days it was all the hip cool uppy 80s music, with excellent bar scenes, dancing, amazingly dressed girls, parties. These days, it's like a dried up desert. The entertainment industry has done a great job removing access and exposure of what used to be hip. Here we used to have things like Retro Boogie and clips on MTV and Much Music with all the good stuff. They've effectively filtered all that out, to keep the kids from discovering all of that, so that they could be prepped to sell today's garbage to.

Anyway, that's my rant for today. When I saw European fireworks, it just reminded me of the stark contrast between then in Europe, and now in North America. It's just pathetic here.

Thx, yeah I like the first one too

That's one of the first shots. I gad spent some time to find a good spot for a good composition with water reflection, etc, and was hoping to shoot the rest without moving the camera, but the size of firework got much bigger than I had anticipated. I had to lift it up to frame the whole firework and it affected the scenery of later shots dramatically. Besides, there is always relatively little smoke in first shots and they look sharper. It got "smoky" really fast, even thought I had a favorable wind direction.

Happy new year

Yeah, there was a really big party in Oslo, all night long. There was a nice none-freezing temperature and almost everybody was out. It was much more crowded than usual.

There is several reasons for those crises that you are talking about, but Social crises tend to follow Financial crises. Those social crises are going to hit the Europe too, at least in some degree, soon or later. Because most of the Europe, especially southern and eastern Europe, has already collapses economically under the pressure of a US-made fanatical crises.

The 2007 US fanatical crises has already ruined most of the Europe financially. Social and political collapses tend to follow these kind of huge financial collapse.

Norway has not been affected by these financial crises so far, mainly because of a huge oil reserve, but we are all living in a globalized world, the collapse of "big BS guys" will affect everybody.

Excellent Work on the fireworks

Thx, I'm glad you liked it

happy new year


The big building, right behind the firework, is the Oslo Town Hall

Sam_Oslo said:

Yeah, there was a really big party in Oslo, all night long. There was a nice none-freezing temperature and almost everybody was out. It was much more crowded than usual.

There is several reasons for those crises that you are talking about, but Social crises tend to follow Financial crises. Those social crises are going to hit the Europe too, at least in some degree, soon or later. Because most of the Europe, especially southern and eastern Europe, has already collapses economically under the pressure of a US-made fanatical crises.

The 2007 US fanatical crises has already ruined most of the Europe financially. Social and political collapses tend to follow these kind of huge financial collapse.

Norway has not been affected by these financial crises so far, mainly because of a huge oil reserve, but we are all living in a globalized world, the collapse of "big BS guys" will affect everybody.

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I don't think Europe's financial woes should be blamed on the US' real estate scams and/or war spending. Europe has its own troubles. Like corrupt southern European countries dragging down the Euro, and other European countries having to bail them out. The more the sun shines, the more corrupt things get it seems (eg. Italy, Greece). Clearly, there are absurd real estate problems in the UK as well, where people that would not normally have been able to generate like a million bucks, simply selling their house, and then being all rich buying properties in eastern Europe, and with an attitude like they earned it. UK housing prices are just stupidly nuts.

But I wasn't after financial trouble. I was after the entertainment industry, and the masters that control the puppets, and how they managed to scam the population at large. Again, I feel sorry for the younger generation being deprived of the feel good stuff. They do not know what's been taken from them.

Nice! Happy New Year! ;-)

123Mike said:

Sam_Oslo said:

Yeah, there was a really big party in Oslo, all night long. There was a nice none-freezing temperature and almost everybody was out. It was much more crowded than usual.

There is several reasons for those crises that you are talking about, but Social crises tend to follow Financial crises. Those social crises are going to hit the Europe too, at least in some degree, soon or later. Because most of the Europe, especially southern and eastern Europe, has already collapses economically under the pressure of a US-made fanatical crises.

The 2007 US fanatical crises has already ruined most of the Europe financially. Social and political collapses tend to follow these kind of huge financial collapse.

Norway has not been affected by these financial crises so far, mainly because of a huge oil reserve, but we are all living in a globalized world, the collapse of "big BS guys" will affect everybody.

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I don't think Europe's financial woes should be blamed on the US' real estate scams and/or war spending. Europe has its own troubles. Like corrupt southern European countries dragging down the Euro, and other European countries having to bail them out. The more the sun shines, the more corrupt things get it seems (eg. Italy, Greece). Clearly, there are absurd real estate problems in the UK as well, where people that would not normally have been able to generate like a million bucks, simply selling their house, and then being all rich buying properties in eastern Europe, and with an attitude like they earned it. UK housing prices are just stupidly nuts.

But I wasn't after financial trouble. I was after the entertainment industry, and the masters that control the puppets, and how they managed to scam the population at large. Again, I feel sorry for the younger generation being deprived of the feel good stuff. They do not know what's been taken from them.

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You have a good point, but there is no doubt, the current European economical crises is directly linked to 2007 US subprime mortgage crises.

US subprime mortgage crises started when a few multinational Big-bankers used their US-headquarters to plunder US home owners from their homes and lifesavings and destroyed almost the whole US middle class in the process. The same Big-bankers has repackaged those toxic debt as "asset", with fake AAA-rating, and sold it to governments and funds around the world, specially in Europe trough their UK headquarter.
This is a very complex finial fraud on top of the global banking industry, and needs more explanation, but in short, multinational Big-bankers have used their US-headquarter to create the current economical crises in US, and used their UK-headquarter to dump it on Europe.

Those corrupt southern European authorities you are referring to, are the same who are enforcing harsh austerities, including selling national assets, and even cutting on pensions, etc, to take everything from people/masses and give to Big-bankers, but there is no limit to this greed.

This insanely high UK housing prices is a bobble, but the same bobble in bobbling in many other countries too, including Canada and even Norway too. There is several reasons for it, but printing a HUGE amount of fiat-money (without any kind of backing) and low interest rates (at almost 0% in many countries) is the driving force of this bobble. But anyways, this housing bobble is going to burst, soon or later, and can collapse the whole economy, depending on it's size in that country.

The "entertainment industry" crises you are referring to is related to economical crises. In short, the Circus can work if people have Bread. We are witnessing a new era, the US and Europe are collapsing under fanatical frauds and plunging by Big-Bankers. The Bread is gone and a huge number of people, masses, are suffering under economical hardship.

Thx, I'm glad you like it

Happy New Year

For the record, I pretty much disagree with everything you've claimed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone_crisis