Assignment: "Holiday Memories" Dec. 9 - 23

[Saralonde]

Are you ready for the current holiday season? What are your "Holiday Memories"? Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, or are just enjoying the holiday season, show me what the holiday season means to you.

I have great memories of Christmas tree decorating. These are ornaments that hung on our tree while I was growing up and I still love to see them hanging on my own tree now.



As always, rules:
Please note the change in closing time.

Just a note to new posters: DO NOT start a new thread for your post. Please just hit the reply button at the bottom of any current post and put your image there.

1. Your original image you submit should be taken between the 9th of December and the 23rd of December. Each week as an assignment closes on the Wednesday, it will be AUTOMATICALLY deemed *CLOSED* after 8am GMT ( 3am EST) and any posts after that time will not be eligible for the assignment competition. Don't wait until the last minute to post!

2. Your post must include "Assignment: Holiday Memories " (to show your permission to count it for the contest) and the date the picture was taken (to show that it is a valid entry).

3. EXIF data should be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, date taken, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) in the text of your message.

4. Only one entry per member (if you can't restrain yourself until the end of the first week you can post two or three separate pictures but your entry should be in a separate post and the only marked with the text above). It must be an original image taken by you.

5. Remember the cross-site image size limit (800px on the longest side).

6. If the image does not exist in post at the end of the contest, it is disqualified. If you modify anything on flickr and re-save the image then the link is broken and the message needs edited to link the picture again before it will be included in the contest.
For everyone, please do not repeat other people's photos by quoting them until the contest is over. If you want to comment on or discuss an entry you can use a link to it (or just delete the picture from the quoted text).

7. If you are looking for the winners of the mini-contest, please check the front page of the DPS blog Saturday late afternoon (EST) and here.

Well, we are starting toward the end of 2009 and looking forward to 2010. So as we close out the yea, for our last assignment, I want you to go through all of your shots you took this year and choose your very best. Give a brief explanation of why you feel it is your best of the year. You need to have taken it during 2009. Please remember to include your EXIF info and "My Best Shot of 2009" if you want to be in the mini-contest.

THE WINNER of "My Best Shot of 2009" as chosen by the judges will win a Lowepro Toploader Pro 70 AW

While you go through them, consider backing up the images you love and tossing some that are just cluttering your system. You'll thank me later .

[Obijuan]

Feliz Navidad. Here is one of my old ornaments with a little kick to it.


Dec 15, 2009
1600×1071 pixels – 617KB
Filename: LL 072.JPG
Camera: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D80
ISO: 100
Exposure: 10.0 sec
Aperture: 25.0
Focal Length: 28mm
Flash Used: No

From Drop Box

[steve_stanger]

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"the Christmas tree and the camera"

I was trying hard in many of the shots of the Christmas tree not to be seen then I decided to try a few where I was reflected in the ornaments. I like the way this one came out.

Shot: 12/12/09
Camera: NIKON D40
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/2 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 48mm

[Photoboothguy]

Snowball Fight



Snowballs, with a little food coloring, shot with a pellet gun.

Date Taken: 12/9/2009
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Lens: Canon 55-250mm IS
Exposure: 2
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Flash: 580exII and 430exII at 5 and 7 o'clock, 1/64 power

[Keikyu]

Every year my parents and I would drive around the neighborhood looking at the neighbor's Christmas lights from the warmth of our car. I took my husband around our neighborhood this year to keep the tradition alive This is a shot of one house's lights through the rainy windshield.
Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Taken on December 11, 2008

[GwenieThePooh]

Candy Cane ... the kids love to pick these candy canes off the Christmas Tree



EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D5000
Exposure: 0.4
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 52 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
Flash: No Flash
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:12:18 15:18:03
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2009:12:18 14:45:44-08:00
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:12:18 14:45:44

[moonlessnight97]

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS BALL

Camera: Nikon D60
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: +1 EV
Flash: No Flash

File Size: 194 kB
File Modify Date: 2009:12:01 19:40:38+00:00
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 1024
Image Height: 685
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
Software: QuickTime 7.6.4
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:11:30 10:07:49
Host Computer: Mac OS X 10.5.6
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2009:11:30 08:51:40
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:11:30 08:51:40
Max Aperture Value: 1.7
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
Light Source: Fine Weather
Sub Sec Time: 80
Sub Sec Time Original: 80
Sub Sec Time Digitized: 80
Color Space: sRGB
Sensing Method: One-chip color area
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Manual
Digital Zoom Ratio: 1
Focal Length In35mm Format: 75 mm
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Contrast: Normal
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Subject Distance Range: Unknown

[MatthewBotos]

Created some new Holiday Memories this year by visiting a few friends who work in downtown Philadelphia and taking in the Christmas decorations:



# Taken with a Canon EOS 50D.

* Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4) [+]
* Aperture: f/5.0 [+]
* Focal Length: 35 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 100 [+]
* More properties

# Taken on December 14, 2009

[bernda]

Camera: Canon Powershot A720
Date: 12/13/2009
No Flash
Focal length: 5.8
Exposure: 1/20s
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 320

[miloshi]

Our christmas cakes



Dec 16, 2009
Camera: Canon 30D
ISO: 100
Exposure: 0.8 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash Used: No