Another Christmas Shot From Indian Trails

This shot is showing the other half of the front of the same house I posted last night. This one being beyond the driveway to the left.

On the left side of this image you can see some vertical lights that are hanging down like a waterfall. These lights were hung from about 65 feet up in the tree. I can only imagine that the guy who put up this lighting must've rented a cherry picker. I doubt he climbed this tree to get the lights up this high.

Anyone have any better ideas how these lights were hung? Let me know as a comment below this post.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my loyal followers and friends.

This was taken during a Christmas light shoot in Indian Trails in Palm Harbor, Florida.

This house was a corner lot and it was decorated in different scenes all the way across the front and the side as far as his property extended. It is one of the most beautiful displays I've ever seen. It was amazing! I just had to share with you all.

4th of July

These little kids said it all for me, between the little girl's dress and everyone carrying flags. This is Patriotism! I like the young girl's expression on her face as she talks to the boys. It's so typical at that age. These girls were part of the huge crowd at the Safety Harbor 4th of July Celebration. It seems that everyone in Pinellas County was there for the big event.

Of course, the 4th wouldn't be complete without fireworks and there were plenty of them! I've just posted one of my favorite shots of the evening, but there were many. It was hard to find a place to set up away from the crowds, but my friends, Lyman and Tony managed to find a good spot where no one could get in front of us. They even spoke with one of the people responsible for the fireworks show, so we'd know which direction they were going off. It made it easier to set up our cameras in advance.

I started the show with my 55-250mm lens, but soon found out it would be too long. I quickly switched to my 18-55mm lens to shoot the remaining fireworks. They were shot into the sky fast and furious and it was a magnificent display. There were 14 of us from my photography group all together and we had a great time.

I set my camera on ISO 200, F16 and the Bulb setting for the shutter speed. I manually counted off the seconds, with predominately white colors for less than a second, red about 2 seconds and blue 3 seconds. It worked pretty well.