I took my 4-year-old out on New Year’s Eve to see the Christmas holiday lights before they were taken down and put away for another year (although in the Atlanta area, people seem to make an event out of it and leave their lights up way too long; some of them never bother to take them down at all from one holiday season to the next).
We got some fantastic shots and returned home safe before the revelers came out – my son with the Fuji throw-away camera he got for Christmas and me with my new wide angle Sony Cybershot DSC-WX9 which I bought for myself for Christmas, although I did not use the wide angle panoramic tool; In all my haste to get the pictures and get out of there before the neighbors ran us off, I forgot I had that fancy option (which would have allowed me to capture all 5 homes in the cul-de-sac instead of just 3 of them). I can hardly wait to get my next long master bath to shoot just so I can use that feature.
The winner of the best Christmas lights award – residential division – is this cluster of 5 homes in a cul-de-sac in the Vinings Vintage subdivision in Mableton, GA. They went all-out and the final production was truly magnificent.
I’m not so sure who the winner of the best camera award was – the Sony pictures seem to be not-so-crisp. (Of course that could be due to the camera operator and not the camera itself.)
I hope you enjoy the shot I took of the winners above. Do you have a favorite Christmas lights picture of your own? I hope 2012 is a year filled with many lights for all of you. Happy New Year!
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