My Christmas present came in the mail yesterday. I am itching to test it a little more, but today was filled with Christmas shopping–my first trip out, believe it or not.
What came in the mail, you ask? The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 Macro lens
Christmas light bokeh.
I did quite a bit of it last year and even (gasp!) got featured on Pioneer Woman’s site.
I just love the way the Christmas lights look, blurred in the background.
I also thought I’d share a fun picture I took after this week’s visit to see Santa. There are signs all over the place kindly requesting that you don’t use your own camera while visiting Santa. Such a bummer! So instead, we exited Santa’s workshop area and took a picture of the scenery. AJ is blown out and blurry here, but there’s an element in this picture that makes it an all-time classic.
Can you see it?
Here’s the zoomed-in version:
Here, I thought I was being sneaky. And Santa was watching me the whole time.
Thank goodness I already got my lens, or else I might worry that I’d be put on Santa’s naughty list.
Or maybe he was just being a good sport and saying cheese for the camera. It has left me with an odd feeling that someone really is watching me.
What have you been photographing this week? Have you tried anything new? Read to find out more about Give Me Your Best Shot….And come back to leave the link to your best shot below (please link to your actual Give Me Your Best Shot post). And grab my button below or link to me so that we can get more people to stop by!
PS–if this is your first visit here this week, did you notice that I finally made that move to WordPress? So far it has been a smooth move except for the fact that this morning I woke up missing about 1000 subscribers. So if you do subscribe or have me in a blog roll, check to make sure you’ve got my new address, https://foodfunfamily.com/ updated. And while you’re here, take a look around the site. The look is generally the same, but there are a few new features that are pretty cool. I’m enjoying it!
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I just got my Tamrom 70-300 1:4-5.6 zoom/macro lens and OMG I love it. It takes amazing zoom shots and amazing up close macro shots. I may never use another lens again.
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I just searched “betterinbulk” on swagbucks search & you came up as #2 listed! Yeah for Lolli! Hip hip hooray!
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Hi! I re-fed your feed and your blog is still not updating in my bloglist. How has the move gone for you? I like the changes but I really wish that you would show at least 1 or 2 more full posts before it goes into the small boxes. It takes a catchy title to make me actually click on one of those. Just thought I would let you know…:-)
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Congrats on your early present! Nice! Beautiful photographs. I love the vintage camera on your banner! I collect vintage cameras and haven’t come across one quite like it yet. Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest!
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OMG I swear on all angels I didn’t see Caroline’s comment when I wrote mine. I guess your angel is triple-the-love-inspiring!
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Hi, visiting from SITS…I love love love the angel picture, and the one with an adorable AJ who I assume is yours to keep and not just some cute kid you snagged in the mall. Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest!
LOVE LOVE LOVE your angels :D !
I feel so bad, since your moved I lost you. I kept wondering where you were this week, I thought you were just busy and you weren’t posting but here I find out you were and I was just missing everything.
The site looks great from your move, hope all is well. I updated everything so hopefully I can follow along again.
Love the new look!! Don’t worry…your subscribers will be back! Easier said than done though right? I’m making the switch this weekend. We’ll be in the same boat soon.
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Such an amazingly clean look to your new site! I just love it, Laura. Really glad to read that you are happy with the changes too.
Two things that shocked me with this post:
1) You lost all your subscribers. Ugh. SO sorry.
2) You were featured on Pioneer Woman.
Wow!! I had no idea.
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Love the Christmas bokeh! That is on my list of learning to do! ~smiles~
And I couldn’t get your button added to my blog.
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I LOVE the Willow Tree pictures!
That’s the strangest thing! Sorry about that! I will sign you in now!
So sorry about the buttons and the linky! I have no idea what happened to Mcklinky–it was supposed to be live! It appears to be working now and I’ll add your info. As far as the button, it’s a WordPress thing. I didn’t realize I would have to change the button for it. Ugh! It is changed now, and hopefully will work going forward!
Your photos are beautiful, and I am so jealous.. I want that lens! It’s on my wish list, but will have to wait until I find a job!
How funny that you got caught by Santa!
Have a great weekend!
https://bzzagentroyalty.blogspot.com/2009/12/give-me-your-best-shot-aloha-friday.html I may forget to link up since its not open until 3am :(
anyway cute pics! I also copied and pasted the GMYBS button and for some reason it’s not working do you know why?
Shoot! I was going to sign in, but it’s not ready until 3am eastern :(
(could you sign me in please? I will be doing my 1st day of shopping tomorrow ALL DAY. thank you! Thank you!)
LOVE these photos you took! The lighting is fantastic! Oh how I LONG for a real camera…. some day…
SO pretty Lolli! And featured on Pioneer Woman! How cool are you? Totally the coolest : ) I don’t think I knew you last Christmas. I am glad I know you this year : ). I have my picture ready but I don’t have enough energy to write a post… Tomorrow morning!
I am going to try to figure the font thing out! Apparently, it looks normal on Macs and tiny on PC. No good! Since I work on a Mac I didn’t realize it was a problem until some people have mentioned it.
Oh, such pretty shots of the willow tree figurines. For some reason, your font is SO tiny, I can’t read it.