Montgomery Township typically has its Independence Day fireworks display several days before the 4th of July. This year, for the Quarter Millennium (or Semi-quincentennial) celebration, it was Thursday night (25-June-2026).

I set my cameras up on Grandview Road at a location with a clear view of township high school where the celebration takes place. It is approximately 2 km from where the fireworks are launched. The sky was partly overcast with the moon shining down. I mounted the cameras on tripods pointing toward where the fireworks would be launched. The cameras were set in manual mode to use the base ISO (50, 64, or 100), f/11, 8 second exposures with the internal intervalometer set to continuously take images until stopped. I confirmed there were memory cards in all of the cameras, and the batteries were fully charged.

While I waited for the sky to get dark a number of other cars started parking along the road. Soon the fireflies started flashing. The fireworks display started at about 21:20. Last year 2025 the fireworks start was delayed about 5 minutes as a freight train passed. Once the fireworks started, I checked that the fireworks were framed on the camera display, tweaked the focus, and started the intervalometer. In some of the images you can see the light trail of at least one drone that circled the event.

Links to Montgomery Township fireworks from previous years: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2011

Camera 1 (230mm, ISO 64, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 2 (90 mm, ISO 64, f/11, 8 sec): Landscape Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 2 (90 mm, ISO 64, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 3 (100 mm, ISO 50, f/11, 8 sec): Landscape Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery

Camera 3 (100 mm, ISO 50, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery

Camera 4 (90 mm, ISO 50, f/11, 8 sec): Landscape Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 4 (90 mm, ISO 50, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 5 (200 mm, ISO 64, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 6 (105 mm, ISO 100, f/11, 8 sec): Landscape Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Camera 6 (105 mm, ISO 100, f/11, 8 sec): Portrait Crop. Individual images can be viewed in my PhotoShelter Gallery.