Parade time exposures

ISO: 100  f/22  shutter speed: 13 seconds 

ISO: 100  f/18  shutter speed: 15 seconds 

ISO: 100  f/29  shutter speed: 25 seconds 

ISO: 100  f/32  shutter speed: 15 seconds 

ISO: 100  f/32  shutter speed: 30 seconds 

ISO: 100  f/29  shutter speed: 20 seconds

I took these pictures at the Christmas parade last night. I kind of got lost going down there, so when I finally got there, I didn't have a whole lot of time left. I decided I wanted to do some time exposure pictures. I kind of had the photo contest for downtown in mind, and don't really know what they want yet, but when I figure that out, maybe I could do something like one of these. In the first picture I like how you can see people in it, and tell that the cars are turning. The second one is different because I took as the band was passing to see how that would turn out. I like how the buildings look in that picture. The fourth picture I really like how you can see people behind the lights. In the fifth picture, I thought it was cool how you could see both the red and green light from the stoplight. The two lines at the top were kind of cool, although I don't know what they are from. I used a 17-50mm lens for all of these, and a tripod. I was messing around with my settings depending on how bright the float/car/people were that were passing at that time. The parade ended way too quickly for me, but I was still pretty pleased with what I got. I brought up the clarity in all of these, in a couple of them I brought up the fill and recovery a little bit.