Xmas Trees

[Heather]

wow first one makes my eyes go funny lol

love the ickle santa though :)

[NannyFerret]

geodar, good excuse to hit the sales and get some new ones ?

nanny wheres the photo then ? lol

It only went up last night lol

[Denis]

That truly IS a magical scene.......the Santa, lighting and general ambience make it so.........it almost makes me believe again......just look at your lad's face, it is priceless.

A shot to be treasured.

FUJI

Hear hear!

[Denis]

We have a tree, only!

Mrs Denis likes Christmas,but I'm a bit bah humbug with it all. But I do savour the big sit down meal with the family and one or two simple gifts. The big brash two month long Commercial Coca-Cola Christmas does not cut it for me. Nor does decorating the outside of the house with loads of tat that needs the National Grids entire output to power it!

[Heather]

The big brash two month long Commercial Coca-Cola Christmas does not cut it for me. Nor does decorating the outside of the house with loads of tat that needs the National Grids entire output to power it!

me neither !!

It only went up last night lol

excuses excuses!! lol

[Black Pearl]

I'm split down the middle when it comes to Christmas.

At home I love it, the boys think its wonderful, the house is a sparkly warm grotto from the 1st as the wife loves the whole festive feel and with the kids getting more and more excited its a fantastic place to come in front work too.......which leads me to the other side of Christmas.

Working in retail does its very best to destroy any love of the season. It starts far too early, earlier for me as we have all the planning and meetings from the end of the summer. The shop is open extended hours which I hate, more so this year as I'm in a shopping centre and the piped in 'festive, music drives me insane. Customers start off being lovely, there's the joy of buying for loved ones and for themselves but as December progresses it starts to get ugly and frankly the treatment staff get from some would make a normal civilised person wonder what the hell has happened to the world.

If you leave it too late to buy something it's not the person in the shops fault - it's yours. The abuse and it is abuse that comes from some people is disgusting. I love my job, honestly I do and after 24 years of doing it I still enjoy selling cameras but every year I come home with a film of grime on me from the filth I have to serve.

But I still love Christmas!

[Denis]

Mrs Denis has asked me to put up an image of her tree!, since she bought and decorated it, she insists on the right to address it as her tree!....bless her!

Best I could do with an indoor shot..I find that kind of difficult to capture correctly

[Heather]

thats lovely Denis, Mrs Denis has done a great job on it

BP i know what you mean, i worked with the general public in retail and in call centres for most of my life, i found that they have got progressively more aggressive and more rude as the years went on... i ended up going from loving helping people and making people happy to hating having to deal with the public. I used to take pride in my customer service skills but now i refuse to work with the general public at all

[annie]

[Heather]

annie thats a very pretty tree your little white santa would look lovely on or under it ;)

[NannyFerret]

I really wanted a little white tree which would stand on a table away from the ferrets but we couldn't find on anywhere in town, only big ones with which we would have had fun and games trying to keep the ferrets trying to keep the ferrets from climbing up, so I settled for the only other colour that I could find in a 4ft which wasn't green.

I don't normally do "PINK" in anything but once up with some lights and glittery snowballs on, I thought it looked Ok and it makes a change.

Without the lights switched on.

and with the ights switched on.

[annie]

wow a pink tree...my daughter would love that..

i want a white tree for next year...with blue lights and silver and white baubles...they look lovely

[Heather]

wow i dont think ive ever seen a pink one before !

[NannyFerret]

There are some in Wilko's. They were online in Wilkinsons for Half price £10. When I got to the till in the Wilkinsons shop, it had been knocked down again, so was only £8, so I had enough left out of the money that hubby had given me to buy one, to get the baubles and white LED lights.

The only thing was that I picked the lights up which had the black wire instead of clear so had to cover it with white tinsel.

I need another strand of tinsel as it looks a bit bare in the middle now.lol

[NannyFerret]

I have enjoyed looking at everyones lovely trees and pics. It makes it feel more like Christmas :yes

[colinb]

Annie - that tree looks huge with Santa looking on :yes

[FUJI]

wow i dont think ive ever seen a pink one before !

You must have led a very sheltered life Heather? ;-)

FUJI

[Leon]

my tree, rubbish picture, was playing with my new star filter, doesn't seem to work too well with LED lights :(

[Heather]

pretty tree though :)

[NannyFerret]

Lovely tree.

My LED lights came out too flared out but it's all about the Christmas feeling on this thread and not perfect shots, isn't it?

It's been very festive being able to share with each other on here.

[annie]

leon....you have a white tree....i soooooo want one, lovely.

[Black Pearl]

Leon - star filters work best with the lens stopped down - bung the camera on a tripod and crank the lens down to f16.

BP

[Leon]

Leon - star filters work best with the lens stopped down - bung the camera on a tripod and crank the lens down to f16.

BP

max app on my bridge is 8, I'll try again :)

[Karenp]

You all put me to shame with these lovely trees.

Our little (live) one comes in from the garden to be decorated on 24th. And stripped of it's furbishment and returned to the garden on Christmas night!

To be fair, we go away for the rest of the holiday so....

[Heather]

also very enviromentally friendly of you