Yes.

Yes.

Oh, my retinas. No.

Christ, no!

In all fairness, the photographer(s) who took the last shots were working with a catastrofuck of epic proportions to begin with and were not professionals like the first two, but they just made it worse by shooting in the dark instead of at twilight. I hope the ones I take of the display in the park (this weekend, perhaps) will be something closer to the first two than the last two. I’ve not seen the display lit up yet (only during the day), but it appears that there should be some nice reflections off the pond if the water is nice and still and I use a tripod. We’ll see! 🙂