Red Skies at Night — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

Wishes Fire­works at the Magic Kingdom

On Fri­day, Keith Bar­rett & Trey Rat­cliff invited some local friends to join them at Walt Dis­ney World’s Magic King­dom to pho­to­graph some fire­works. Gilmar Smith, Mike Blank & Ali Elhajj also came out. In fact, Gilmar’s photo went blaz­ing up the charts on Google+ this week­end with a great shot — from her first time shoot­ing fire­works. Very awesome!

If you’re a fan of Trey Ratcliff’s won­der­ful work, then there’s an Easter Egg in my photo. He’s there in the crowd, so see if you can spot him. I’ll give you one hint. He’s not the per­son using a flash on his camera.

Video of Trey Rat­cliff Cre­at­ing a Photo

After the fire­works show was over, Trey spot­ted an oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate a reflec­tion shot of the cas­tle. It took a bit of per­sua­sion, but it all came together on this photo on his blog. I shot some video on my iPhone. It’s not the great­est qual­ity video you’ll ever see, but it gives you an idea that you can com­bine your vision, good atti­tude and friendly per­sua­sion to make some killer pho­tos. Enjoy!