CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

I've been messing around with my camera (not a very good one) and taken some closeups of the Christmas trees.






The green one with bronze tinsel (above) is our main one, a 6ft artificial tree.

The small one - white tinsel - (just 3ft high) is sitting on my art table.










We're suckers for Christmas lights - there are 3 sets on the large tree (2 sets of 20 bulbs, plus one of 40 bulbs) and the small tree has 2 miniature battery-operated sets (10 bulbs each).





I also managed a bundle of twigs with lights twined round them, standing in tall vase on the floor by the bookcase, and a set of Santa lights over the mirror, a set of star-shaped bulbs across the wall and another set of lights draped over the curtain rail.

We look like Santa's Grotto but I don't care! Can't have too many lights!

So here's a few pix to show off. I don't know why Christmas trees are so hard to photograph - I have tried for a couple of years now, and they just don't look as good in the pictures as they do in real life. This time, I tried closeups and I think it's worked better.

I'll admit I have fiddled with them a little: extra sharpening, added noise, to make them look more pixellated and bokeh, which is the art of blurring the focus on purpose to make the light look sparkling. I haven't quite got the hang of it yet, but am definitely going to persevere.

Merry Christmas, everyone!