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Here is an unusual Christmas light rendering. Unfortunately, the display was ever changing at a fast pace so I needed a lot of shots to sort. I needed new fodder on Longmont's Christmas lights to add to this series of action shots. I decided to do a full zoom along with the usual jiggles to add to the action. These are merely lights while the camera and lens was being zoomed and jiggled. Three seconds seems enough to management sufficient manipulations but I had the camera on the monopod. I didn't introduce camera back spin on this capture. This looks like I am entering hyper space speeds. I always try several exposures. Reality is highly overrated and only in the eye of the beer holder. Perhaps I've consumed one beer over the line?
I was driving around town the other night to track some Christmas lights mentioned in the local paper.I am still not out of snaps of the other subjects but I hope my breadth has expanded. I did vewwy, vewwy wittle warping and editing, for me at least, to present it the way I wanted. I have learned to slow the camera down even further to three seconds this time but I boosted the lens setting to f:/22. Three seconds is about enough to accomplish a wide array of tricks if prepared and prepanned so to speak. Of course this digital experimentation is cheap. I did set the camera to a shutter delay of one second and that was a help in preparing for the action. I will continue with that. I had fun shooting all of these and they were a breeze to edit! I get mostly muted colors in the ag settings I have shot, so I revel in JUST COLORS. And this title DOES have a nice touch that will get no additional explanation. I spent two hours giving this stuff titles so beer with me! At least I got a chance to shoot colors instead of tones and subtleties.
Last year, Ava didn't pay much attention to the Christmas tree. This year, she is totally amazed by the fact that we have a tree in our living room with lights and ornaments on it. I took a bunch of candid shots while Ava was exploring the tree when we first put it up. This was my favorite of the bunch, mainly due to how the light worked out (this is all natural light (and the lights from tree).
One interesting thing that happened in this one is that I had a cheap UV filter on my lens (I normally keep it on for protection). The filter, though, in scenes like this (and birthday candles) creates light reflections that typically ruin the picture. Here, in my eye, they kind of add to the "magical" quality of the photo (you can see the reflections around Ava's face).
PS - I deleted the Gingerbread House picture. The picture looked fine on my macbook screen, but when I looked at it on my calibrated screen, I was horrified to see that the dark background wasn't so dark and some cloning that I did looked terrible. That will teach me to edit on my laptop. :.)
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Like some drunken Elvis singing
I go singing out of tune
Saying how I always loved you darling
And I always will
Oh when you're still waiting for the snow to fall
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Still waiting for the snow to fall
It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on
(Coldplay - Christmas lights)
The center of Kennebunkport, Maine, has a beautiful Christmas tree, adorned with lobsters. This was just one of many classic New England scenes that Adam and I saw on our epic New England Christmas tour last week. The holidays can be hectic so it was a great decision to step away from that and just take in some Christmas decorations. :)
The above photos was taken handheld at ISO 3200 with the E-M1. I'm really enjoying having a smaller camera to take around on fun days like this!
Merry Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas and happy new Year to all my dear friends!!!
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Just a few days till Christmas now! Hope you've done all your shopping, folks!! JJ bought these two cute tree decorations, cos they reminded him of Harbie!
Die Möve ist ein ehemaliger Lastensegler, Güterschleppboot und späteres Arbeitsschiff auf dem Bodensee. Durch ihre ungewöhnlich lange Verwendung als Rammschiff blieb sie erhalten und ist heute vermutlich der letzte Vertreter dieser Art von Güterschiffen auf dem Bodensee sowie das älteste erhaltene Bodenseeschiff mit Stahlrumpf.
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I never seemed to have enough time this month :( I never really got any of the elves out.. Poor things are still in their Stock Box..
I did decide to add all the cards I got to under the mantle, I love it :) Thank you friends for sending me these lovely cards, Hoping for a few more so I can make it just across to the other side haha
Christmas takes on a whole new meaning at the Gardens, where visitors can enjoy ‘snowfall’ in the tropics surrounded by a dazzling light installation, say hello to a trio of Merry Bears, explore an enchanted forest, have a go at carnival games, catch festive performances by local artistes, dine on festive treats and more.
Christmas decorations
Glittery gold star and red glass baubles ready to go on a Christmas tree with a backdrop of silver, gold, blue and red tinsel.
Lots more photos like this in my Christmas Set
I am totally convinced that in some previous lifetime, I might have been a window dresser for a large dept. store.
Something comes over me at the holiday time.
I want to decorate EVERYTHING!
While rooting through the closet the other day, I came across my old pair of figure skates and thought they'd be pretty hanging on the front porch with some seasonal greens in them.
Two orders for Christmas.... by two women who work inthe same office... and decided to order the same cake!
Dark Chocolate mudcake, filled with dark chocolate ganache.. Chocolate fondant!
Christmas Potpourri Vase
Potpourri is a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials, used to provide a gentle natural scent, which is often placed in a decorative bowl.
The word "potpourri" comes into English from the French word pot-pourri. The French term has two connotations. It is the French name for a Spanish stew with a wide variety of ingredients called "olla podrida", a specialty of the city of Burgos. The word was taken and copied by the French military during the Napoleonic occupation of Burgos (1808–1813). The word pot in French has the same meaning as it does in English (and as olla does in Spanish), while the word pourri means rotten.
Pot-pourri has been used in rooms since ancient times, in a variety of ways, including just scattering it on the floor. In early 17th-century France, fresh herbs and flowers were gathered, beginning in spring and continuing throughout the summer. The herbs were left for a day or two to become limp, then layered with coarse sea salt. The aging mixture was stirred occasionally as layers were added to it. Often the mixture would ferment or even mold as the summer went by. In the autumn, spices would be added to the unsightly grey mix until a pleasant fragrance was achieved. Then, scent preserving fixatives were added. The finished potpourri was set out in special pots with perforated lids to perfume rooms.
Much modern potpourri consists of any decoratively shaped dried plant material (not necessarily from scented plants) with strong natural and synthetic perfumes (and often coloured dyes) added, with the scent often bearing no relation to the plant material used. Sometimes, items that do not originate from plants are mixed in with the potpourri, to give it bulk and to make it more aesthetically pleasing. It is possible to spray scents onto potpourri, however, a fixative is needed so that the scent is absorbed for slow release. Generally, orris root (from the root of an iris) is used for this purpose.
The Babe in Bethlehem's manager laid, In humble form so low; By wondering angels is survey'd,Thro', all_His scenes of woe.
A BEAUTIFUL MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR YOU ALL IS WISHED
Getting the decorations out for the season and snapped a shot of this Christmas Angel and played around with it a bit. Abbotsford, B.C.
The Christmas tree is up at ESA’s ESTEC technical heart in the Netherlands, seen here reflected in the main mirror of a tenth scale model of the NASA-ESA-CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
The Christmas tree’s lights will have taken about 15 billionths of a second to travel to this multi-segment mirror, but the actual JWST’s 6.5 m mirror will observe cosmic sights from far further away.
Scheduled for launch by Ariane 5 in 2021, JWST is designed to collect almost six times more light than the current Hubble Space Telescope, peering back in infrared to the era of the first galaxies in the Universe and hunting out planets around other stars.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
"Those Christmas Lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Ohh Christmas Lights keep shining on"
Coldplay - Christmas Lights
Con una foto "casalinga" e un verso di una canzone a me molto cara auguro a tutti gli amici e seguaci di Flickr un bellissimo e pacifico Natale e un buon anno nuovo!
Some may call it a super-sized ornament or a giant children’s toy, but what really is that wooden, spinning thing in the middle of Marktplatz?
What is it? The 26-foot, carousel-like structure is called a Weihnachtspyramide, or Christmas Pyramid. These wooden pyramids are a traditional German decoration dating back to the 16th century. It is an art form that many believe evolved into our current custom of a Christmas tree.
Where did it come from? Christmas pyramids have their roots in the German Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), a silver ore mining region in the eastern part of German. When the mines began to close, the manufacture of wooden toys became a newfound source of income.
What is it for? Woodworkers would use their moving artwork to capture the attention of children and teach them Bible stories. The artisans would create figurines depicting each part of a story and arrange them in order on the tiers of the pyramid. Typically Christmas pyramids tell the Nativity story of Jesus’ birth and include angels blowing their trumpets, shepherds visiting the stable and magi bringing gifts.
While still a storytelling form of art, Christmas pyramids serve a mainly decorative purpose today. Most are table-top size and used in homes as a holiday decoration—filling children and adults alike with holiday cheer as lighted candles spin the windmill round and round.
Where you can find in Fredericksburg: Der Alte Fritz, Kuckucks Nest and The Grasshopper and Wild Honey.
Fredericksburg’s Christmas pyramid, handcrafted in Germany, was first displayed at Marktplatz during the 2009 holiday season. It is illuminated each year on the Friday evening following Thanksgiving, kicking off the Christmas season in Fredericksburg, and remaining lit through Epiphany, the first week of January.
Happy December. We are back home. We had a wonderful time in Fredericksburg.
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Wishing everyone that their Christmas wishes should come true. Eva is wishing for the gingerbread cookies being rolled out on the counter.
This of course was before the cookies were iced by my 4 year old son, who came down with rip roaring gastroenteritis a few hours later. The cookies are now a little less desirable.