{"id":6483,"date":"2012-01-02T07:29:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2012-01-02T07:29:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:29:54","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-holiday-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/this-week-in-pictures-holiday-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: holiday retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘m still on the fence as to whether I will be doing an official 365 (erm, 366) project in 2012, but I still seem to be taking a picture each day, and I do enjoy writing these posts, so let’s keep on keeping on for now. I posted a boatload of pictures over the last week, partly because I have had time to go through my archives and find some new favourites and partly because I have not really put down my camera at all this week. And really, how could I resist this ridiculously photogenic time of year?<\/p>\n

This is what our Christmas looked like:<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

One of my favourite gifts this Christmas was a creative aperture kit for my Lensbaby. I’ve done shaped bokeh before, but this makes it very easy by providing a bunch of different cutouts you just pop into the Lensbaby, so any out-of-focus areas (known as bokeh) take on the shape of the aperture. Here’s the effect the heart-shaped one had on the tree lights:<\/p>\n

\"Lensbaby<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the star-shaped one with the neighbour’s Christmas lights. (There is a part of me that worries about being known as “That weird woman with the camera” in my neighbourhood.)<\/p>\n

\"Lensbaby<\/a><\/p>\n

It can be more subtle when the lights are not as bright or contrasty. You can see the faint stars in the right fence post on this one, too:<\/p>\n

\"Lensbaby<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s what it looks like on the camera:<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a><\/p>\n

Not for every day, but a lot of fun when used sparingly. \ud83d\ude42 And speaking of bokeh, here it is without the shaped aperture. The glass ball is part of a decoration my mom bought for me ages ago — in fact, it was in my first 365 picture back in 2009. I keep meaning to play with it more:<\/p>\n

\"Goodbye<\/a><\/p>\n

On a side note, if you’re killing time and looking for something cool to watch, check out this amazing time-lapse video that combines shaped bokeh, a glass globe just like this one and Los Angeles. I found it after I’d taken all these pictures and laughed at how they all came together in this video — I’ve watched it a couple of times and really love it!<\/p>\n