Tis’ the season!  I had put the Christmas tree up the previous night and our plan was to hang all the decorations after a day of shopping.  The shopping was a success (when isn’t, really?) and a couple of hours after we returned home the tree was complete.  Luckily for me I managed to play with the camera before we got started.  I had seen some nice pictures online of holiday lights all bokeh’d out and wanted to give it a try.

I don’t think it turned out so bad, but it was not as easy to achieve as you would think.  You really have to work to get an auto-focusing, point & shoot camera to stay out of focus on a subject.  I ended up focusing on the carpet, not letting up on the shutter switch and turning the camera toward the tree.  More than one attempt was unsuccessful.  I’ll have to try this picture again next year when hopefully I’ll have an upgraded camera.