My Amateur Art & Photo Blog

Christmas Tree Lights The tree might not be quite as grand as the one captured in yesterday's photo but we love it all the size. I can say that keeping our Christmas tree in the sun porch has been a lifesaver in preventing a cat-astrophes! Taken with the  Canon PowerShot SX230HS  handheld, flash did not fire, some adjustments and edits made in post processing.

Christmas Tree In The Square This tree in Teele Square looks  radiant  surrounded by the street and traffic lighting. There's no post processing here, this is how the shot looked out of my fun when I took it. I think the lens was steamed up from being in a warm restaurant coming out to the cold  and wet winter air. Taken with the  LG Optimus Elite , No post processing.

Christmas Lights Closeup Today was spent putting up some more Christmas lights and decorations, and the subject of my photo of the day. The close-up +10 filter was still on my DSLR so a macro photo was in order. After trying a few attempts to get real close and in focus I thought a slight out of focus shot of several of the Christmas lights looked much more artistic. Taken with the Pentax K200d with the  Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL lens  , with a close-up +10 filter attached in MF. Noise reduction attempted in p ost processing.

Christmas Lights It only took me the best part of the today to find, unpack and then decide I needed more lights today to get these up, and that doesn't even include time time to worry about decorating a Christmas tree yet! That will have to wait until tomorrow perhaps, I'm determined to go all 'Griswold Christmas' this year ;) Taken with the  Canon PowerShot SX230HS  in handheld night mode, flash did not fire.  Some post processing to remove house number. I like how the garden looks with a light coating of snow, if only that was the only snow we'd get this winter!