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I hope everyone has an awesome Christmas.  This is definitely going to be the last of the Christmas subjects, I think.  I’ve got quite a few more from dinner at my Aunt’s and Christmas day, but I figure I’ll save those till next year.  It was hard enough this year, since I was lazy and didn’t get out and take very many right before the holidays.  Well, lazy or busy, I’m not quite sure which.

Anyways, this is decorative tree that was at my Aunt’s.  It was lit from a small, warm, tungsten lamp, but I added a little bit more warmth in the post process to make it look like it actually was.  Wouldn’t it be nice if camera’s could just capture exactly the way things look when you wanted it to without having to post process or use filters?  Somedays I wish, but I think it’d take all the fun right out of it.

Nice red Christmas Lights intertwined in a tree outside of the Fulton Lounge.

Yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s images have all been processed using BW Workflow Pro plug in from Fred Miranda.  I was so impressed with Velvia Vision and how it helped me to get the results I wanted so much easier, that I had to try the black and white counter part.  Needless to say I’m thoroughly impressed.  I do however wish, that each section of his plug in would create a new layer as opposed to just creating one.  That way it would be a lot easier to tweak individual components a lot easier.  However, I suppose I can make do with what’s available.

Ah the Christmas Cactus.  However, this one was blooming at Thanksgiving.  I guess that’s close enough right?  Oh, and it also blooms at Easter sometimes, etc.  I’m guessing it likes where it’s at and that it’s well cared for (read: not mine).

Here’s something to help bring us closer to Christmas, a little bittersweet and hints of pine.  Only 11 more days!  This is actually at my parents place while I was there over Turkey Day.  As you can sort of see, my Mom has intertwined it around a stand.

And then the third and final in the series.  I actually like this one the best.  I like the colors and the speckled nature of this alarm.  Also, the slight fade to darkness (actual shot, not done in post processing), and the way the alarm is similar colors to the wall, but how different the textures are.

This is the second in this series as I mentioned yesterday.  Not really much else to talk about.

These next three images were all taken the other week right around my place.  The first two are just different angles of the same fire alarm, and the third one is different.  I’m still mastering the macro lens, but simple jaunts like these really help.

These are some of the cookies I made to bring home. I actually only made the dough in Chicago and then finished them off up here. It actually worked out better that way as I was already up to around midnight making the other cookies and snacks. I made these gingerbread cookies, chewy-molasses cookies, white chocolatee with fruit and nuts, and sugar-spice almonds. I have made the chewy-molasses cookies before and they are quite good. I haven’t broken into the white chocolate cluster things yet, but I can’t image they are bad. However the almonds, are awesome. I will definitely be making some of those just to bring into work. And they take all of 20 minutes to make. That’s my kind of recipe!

Oh, and it’s sort of hard to tell, but dinosaur cookies are my new Thanksgiving tradition!

So did everyone do some shopping yesterday? Get any good deals?

Yeah, so I was supposed to have put something up here that was more festive than this, but I completely forgot about it yesterday.  This fits the bill to a certain extent, but I was hoping for more Thanksgiving-esque as opposed to Christmas.  Oh well.  I should get some post-processing done today while I sit around watching football after I stuff myself silly.  Then tomorrow will hopefully have some sort of Turkey day theme.  Hopefully.

How can you go wrong with light and water playing with each other?  I also enjoy the subtle hints of greenery behind the water.