My Project 365 goal this year is to practice getting correct exposure and color in-camera. Fair warning, all photos will be SOOC and not edited at all...I have a feeling it won't all be pretty. But I hope to get better at this, gaining time in post process and saving the editing for capturing certain photo styles desired by individual clients.
Day 1: A Christmas ornament my parents have had since before I was even around. Or somewhere around there. There is something incredibly comforting about your parents' Christmas tree, right?
This has been one of the best Christmases ever. We are taking our time celebrating and will even be celebrating past Epiphany (January 6) this year. I have a feeling Monday, January 10 is going to hit like a ton of bricks, but I'm trying to enjoy it until then.
Along the same lines, I recently postulated to my husband a really super-simple solution to what seems to be a growing dilemma about "Christmas" and who seems to own the word/holiday/season. Some Christians resent the commercializing and secularizing of our second most important holiday of the year. And then the commercializ-ers and seculariz-ers resent mention of the word "Jesus" when trying to celebrate their holiday dedicated to Peace, Love, and Joy. For the sake of brevity, I'm leaving out those who celebrate other holidays which just so happen to also coincide with the winter solstice; "Happy Chanukah", "Happy Kwanzaa", "Merry (or whatever) Saturnalia" don't really have any other connotations, unlike the seemingly innocent "Merry Christmas".
So here's my solution: Everyone who wants to "keep Christ in Christmas" just needs to give the word away. There's no getting it back, and frankly, the trees, the santas, the lights, the gifts, the reindeer, the hustle and bustle and energy...are really fun and will always be associated with "Christmas". And now instead, when wishing to refer to the holiday based on Luke 2:1-20 we need merely to wish each other a "Blessed Nativity". There ya go--two holidays in one and think how much less confusing for the children ;-)
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