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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2007-12-14 08:03 pm

Civic obligations

Apparently living on the village green carries a price.  Most of the houses around that space have lights, inflatable Santas or Snowmen, reindeer on the roof, etc, etc, etc.  Place looks like a kitsch New England Christmas postcard, with the snowflakes sifting down under the streetlights.

Our street, one block over, maybe one house in five shows decorations.

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2007-12-15 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Be thankful you don't live anywhere near 34th Street in Baltimore.

[identity profile] green-knight.livejournal.com 2007-12-15 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Photos? Please? Just so you can share the eye-ache.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2007-12-15 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I may try, but night photos of Xmas lighting rank up there in the "hard-to-impossible" range -- a lot of commercial shots turn out to be double exposures, or use fill flash. My digital camera is rather rudimentary.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2007-12-16 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Made one attempt, at -15C this evening. No results that I am prepared to share -- camera shake, streetlights blowing out the highlights on the snow, you name it. And I'm not gonna go play with a tripod in that stuff...