Atlanta Lights

We visited Atlanta over Christmas to see family, and while there saw the lights at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. I only had my cellphone (not my DSLR) but tried to get some shots of the lights. This light-tunnel was fun to walk through.

The decorations were impressive.

The best part of the display consisted of hundreds of hanging strings of lights, changing colors in time with music.

You could get right up among them on a pedestrian bridge.

There was even a dragon.

It's definitely worth a visit if you're in the area.

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Merry Christmas!

To all my readers who celebrate it, a very Merry Christmas! Some houses in my town go all-out to decorate for the holidays.

These photos were captured last week after a fresh snowfall in extremely cold temperatures.

I love seeing these seasonal decorations each year.

And here's the obligatory unfocused art-shot.

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Merry Christmas

Photos taken at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri.

Missouri Botanical Garden at Night

When we were in St. Louis recently we visited the Missouri Botanical Garden at night, as it was decorated for the holidays. I was very happy to have the new camera so I could take some shots in this low light, and was very impressed with the gardens.

Every path had something new to see.

I loved this forest of blue.

Crouching down I captured this photo through the fire towards the Climatron dome.

There's even a great Dale Chihuly glass sculpture in the main entrance.

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Holiday Shopping

From our Thanksgiving trip to the middle of the country, here's a famous shopping area in Kansas City (Missouri) called Country Club Plaza all decorated for the holidays (and one shot a mile or so from there).

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Merry Christmas!

To all my readers who celebrate it, a very Merry Christmas! (The photo was taken in New York shortly before Thanksgiving.)

Merry Christmas

I hope all my readers have a very Merry Christmas.

These photos were taken at Disney's Hollywood Studios a week ago when I was in Florida for my daughter's wedding, all of them handheld with my old Nikon D40X and their brilliant little 35mm f/1.8 lens. It was the most impressive light display I've ever seen, and they would periodically change in time to music. I'm linking these photos to the Our World Tuesday meme.

Christmas Lights

This time of year, a lot of people put up Christmas lights on their houses. So, along with lots of other bloggers, I'm putting up some photos of Christmas lights in my part of town, taken yesterday evening. The first house belongs to my friend Bill, the other ones I don't know.

All these photos were taken hand-held, and I didn't edit them except to reduce the sizes to fit on to the blog. I'm sure you can find lots more holiday photos at the My World Tuesday site.

Christmas Lights

One of the great American Christmas traditions is to decorate your house with lights. And, like everything, some people really get into it. When I was dropping my kid off this evening I noticed the following house, so I brought my camera when I picked him up. They even had Christmas music playing!