Tet Festival (Lunar New Year) at Balboa Park, San Diego.
There were thousands of firecrackers hanging on these strings all lit off at once, blowing shrapnel easily the 15 feet to where I was. I kept shooting and ignoring the fragments. The soldier had finished lighting them and was running away. It's unfortunate about the chain link fence that was unavoidable. It was at my smallest f-stop f5 already for shallow DOF. It was taken at 63mm, so I would have done better to put on my 50mm 1.8 lens, but I didn't have time. It looks a little crooked, but any straightening would chop off his hat.
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