Holiday Photo Challenge

The Viewfinder Challenge for December was holiday photos.  I will not be able to attend the meeting due to Elaine's medical situation, but thought I'd try to squeeze in some entries for the challenge anyway.  The first thought was to go to  North Star Mall to see what was happening during the "Pet" day for Santa.  Every year, they allow three hours on Mondays for people to bring their pets to sit on Santa's lap and get their photo made.  I had never been and thought it would be a hoot, especially if someone brought an exotic pet like a snake or fish.  No such luck.  Nothing but dogs.  And plenty of them.  There was a long line waiting and even when I left around 8 PM, they  were still bringing them in from the parking lot.  Here's the most interesting shot I got from my vantage point up on the second floor balcony.  This was with an 85mm f1.4 lens shooting at about 1/30 sec.  I have a caption for this one.  It is, "Please, Santa, tell him he's too young for a BB gun this year."

When leaving the mall, I stopped at the big boots to take a shot of them since they are so easy and meet the holiday criterion.  Shot was with 15mm f1.7 lens at 1/50 sec. and f8.0.

For the third shot I had an idea to  try something in the neighborhood, just around the corner from the house.  The Holy Trinity Catholic Church has a nativity scene they erect each year and I'd been waiting for them to light it.  They finally did, so I set up in front of it at night with camera on a tripod.  Exposure was about the same as for the boots except 1/4 sec instead of 1/50.  I took several shots with myself in front of the camera in different locations, each time holding my 7" Android tablet.  I had photographed the scene with the tablet and just put it on replay when I held it up.  On processing, I pasted two of the positions onto the shot that already had one on it.  So there are three silhouetted figures in all.  The caption for this one is "Three modern wise men go to check out the Baby Jesus"

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