light {see it snap it love it}

Our Christmas tree is up

and looking lovely.

I absolutely adore this time of year

and every single year I suggest to my husband

that we leave the tree up all year round because it's just so pretty.

He always smiles at me in that

"I love you but you're completely mental" type of way.

This year both my babies are a little in love with the tree

so maybe in a few years the three of us can convince him

. . . or not!

I don't think there are many people who own a DSLR

who won't want to have a play around taking photos of Christmas lights

and trying to get some pretty effects.

I had a play around at the weekend trying to get the perfect Christmas tree photo.

I haven't got it yet

but I've got another month of having the tree up to practise.

I took this photo using a macro filter

which is how the decoration is in focus while the lights aren't.

And the one underneath was shot without the filter

but it fully manual mode.

If you want to have a go at creating some bokeh (pretty blurry light effects) on your photos

then check out my lovely friend Katie's post on Totally Tates

and she will point you in the right direction.

Next weeks theme will be 'Stories'

so you might choose to tell a story with you photo,

photograph a favourite book

or do something else entirely.

I can't wait to see what you all do with the 'Light' theme though,

so get linking up,

tweet me your links for a retweet

and go around and share some love on the other posts.

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