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This Christmas lights display in Edinburgh is absolutely stunning. Highly recommend visiting Edinburgh during Christmas time to explore the Christmas markets.
Wishing all of you a wonderful Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!
Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights on the Streets of America in Disney's Hollywood Studios in their final showing.
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.
The Christmas Train Show at the Flower Dome is back in its second edition this year after its popular debut last year. With several model trains from all over the world running around the tracks, it is sure to bring a delight to both railfans and everyone else alike.
Looking back through my photos form my trip to NYC this time last year and thought I'd edit a few to upload and share. Hope everyone had a nice Christmas! :)
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)
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!
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
This is a very special train for me. I've always loved trains. And it wouldn't be Christmas without a train around the tree in our house. But growing up our house was pretty small. Sure we had a tree at Christmas, on an end table, but there was never space for a train under it. I always dreamed of that train under the tree. When we moved into our current house we finally had the room. Sure I was grown up but I didn't care, that kid that I never out grew, demanded he have his train under the tree. That Christmas tradition that he had missed out on all these years. And now every Christmas I've had one under the tree. Sometimes it's a LEGO train, and sometimes it one of the other scale trains always floating around our house. This year we have this G gauge train and it's a very special one.
This train set was given to my Dad one Christmas several years ago. My Mom and I gave it to him. He always thought the big G gauge trains were neat and spotted this set for sale at a local store. So we bought it for him, and he loved it. After Christmas that year we took a trip down to a model train shop in Baltimore. My Dad spotted the yellow hand car set and said he would love to have that to go with his new train set. One of our very good family friends who was along, Ronald Deitz, decided to buy it for him as a belated Christmas gift. Forward to a few years ago, I had the train out under the tree and my Dad mentioned that he really wanted a caboose for his train. So that year I tracked down a Pennsy bobber and gave it to him for Christmas.
So this train has always been associated with Christmas for me. And with the passing of my Dad this year it reminds me of him and happier times. It was his train set, given to him with love from family and friend. I really miss my Father. I will always cherish the memories of him.
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
Cathedral Square
Vilnius
Lithuania
Merry Christmas! Truly glad to spend another Christmas in Europe with the white winter, festive spirit and with great company! A very decorative christmas tree was the centre piece of the rather modest Christmas markets in Vilnius. It makes a great foreground for an otherwise common tourist snapshot.
1 exp shot, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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.