Dad put up the Christmas lights this past week. I was out shooting the Moon (heh), Venus and Jupiter. The three heavenly bodies are in a tight formation. When I arrived home I looked up and could see them quite well so I took this shot with my camera and telephoto lens. I took it freehand without the tripod and this was the best of the bunch.

With the tripod I got nothing great but then again by the time I got the tripod I was unable to see the moon anymore and waited till it came out from behind some clouds.

Short post tonight as I need to finish the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and announce the winner of a free copy.

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Everyone Loves A.. Rainy Parade?

By Drew | November 30, 2008

Photo-A-Day #1332

Today was the annual North Attleboro Santa Parade and it was happening rain or shine. Unfortunately the heavens chose rain today. There is nothing more sad than watching people throw candy from cars and floats so halfheartedly and seeing that same candy land in the puddles in the gutters. And not one person there to snatch it up. That is what we witnessed while watching the annual Santa Parade. We bundled up Eva.

We headed downtown to watch the parade. We also got a late start because I pretty much passed out on the bed while reading Brisinger. Allison woke me around 3:20pm. The parade started at 3:00pm. We did get to see at least 3 of the local Dance Schools. (There are like 50 of them in town). We also got to see the most important part of the parade. No, not Santa but rather the EGL car. EGL stands for Edward G. Lambert. Ed was my best friend’s father. He was also the head of the North Attleboro Santa Parade and each year he would be the very last car in the parade. And in the words of the Lambert boys “The Parade isn’t over till the Buick rolls by.” Ed’s son Neil drove the car this year. He was all smiles when he saw us.

I took my camera and figured I would get a shot or two during the parade. I did I got quite a few and there were some worth posting. I posted them to Flickr in the North Attleboro Santa Parade tag set. Taking Photos in the rain sucks especially if you don’t have something to cover your camera. I need that I have got to get a rain cover for my camera. I also should have taken off the polarizing filter that I had forgotten was on the camera until after I was done shooting. Oh well, at least I got the shot above. I did a little editing in Photoshop to isolate the parts in color that I really liked.

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Family Togetherness

By Drew | November 29, 2008

Photo-A-Day #1331

There is an event that I look forward to each Christmas and that is the family party with my Dad’s family. My Dad has seven sisters and so we have a very large family. This year the party was very early because of everyone’s schedules but that is okay, it kind of took the pressure off everyone. This was also a great year because all of my aunts and my Dad and my grandparents were at the party. That means a family picture. I’ve taken quite a few of them over the years and I am happy to do so.

This year was also special because Eva is at that stage where everything she does is insanely adorable. And trying to be as non-biased as possible, she did very well walking all around the party. She managed not to get knocked down by all the bigger kids and she only fell over a few times. Once right on her face. She did manage to maneuver a step into the sunken living room. She would walk right up to the edge and sit down, many times without prompting too.

I took many pictures today and here are some that I really liked.

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