All of the lights...

Who loves Christmas lights!! Who hates hanging the Christmas lights!! They are always, always a big tangled mess... unless you are my brother Andy. He has Christmas light super powers. When he puts them neatly away in the box they are still neatly in the box when he gets them out the next year. For some reason he is the only person that I know that this works for... everyone else Christmas lights mysteriously become a huge tangled mess while in storage.

Anyway for this challenge I decided its time to tackle Bokeh. Which was actually really fun and not particularly difficult. I want to try it again sometime with the kids but for these photos I used Brendans feet! The trick is to have as large an aperture as possible. It is good to have something in front of the lights (eg feet!) to focus on and help create some depth of field. The further away you can get from the lights the better the effect.

This one the lights in the room were on...

This one the lights were off...

This one the lights were off with some beautiful phone light shining on the feet! These were really fun photos to take!