Last night (July 4, 2011), I joined a friend to a fireworks scouting flight over the Los Angeles area. Shooting fireworks from a Cessna Skylane 182 reminded me how important it is to be able to use a tripod for certain subjects. Here are some of the images, shot at about 3,000 feet above sea level, where a tripod is redundant because of the 3D movement of the plane.