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Belated New Years Eve Firework Display

5th January 2007 by Stephen McIver

The New Year’s Eve firework display in Liverpool was postponed this year for five days due to bad weather.

We already had other plans for New Year’s Eve, so this delay actually suited us quite well and it’s fortunate that we got to see them.

I could have viewed and photographed them from the Walker Art Gallery (where they were being launched from), but I thought this would be too close to the fireworks to get a good picture, as well as being extremely busy and difficult to get a good spot with my tripod.

Therefore, we decided to head across the Mersey to Seacombe Promenade to shoot them from there. Before deciding on this location, I’d checked the line of site on Google Maps and realised that the fireworks would be appearing to the left of the three graces, and this seemed like a good viewpoint.

Well, you can imagine our disappointment (and that of a few hundred people who had also gathered there) when once the fireworks started, they were almost completely hidden by the tall buildings on the skyline! Unbelievable! We could hear them and see the very top of the highest shooting fireworks, but it was a major disappointment I have to say. Most people left, and we were left there standing by ourselves (with just a few more photographers around us). I guess we were all waiting in hope that there would be some huge rockets that would shoot high over the skyline, but unfortunately, that never happened.

All was not lost though as I used it as an opportunity to build up some more stock shots of the Liverpool skyline, one of the best city skylines in the World!