Jubilant

How nice, those colors too!

(have tried something like that, but did not came out good.)

elena, great composition and timeing.perfect image! steve,

Thanks for the encouraging words! I don't think you can quite make it out here...but my favorite thing about this photo in the larger version is that you can see the spiral of the smoke near the center from the initial explosion.

View larger to see smoke spirals!

Great work on an individual explosion - like you said the center burst is very unusual and cool. I love the spiraling also. I might have cropped a bit tighter.