2013 Week 50 Photos

2013 Week 50 Photos

(28th week photographing daily) 

By Corey Lablans Photography

With Christmas just over a week away and being busy with exams this week, I thought Christmas lights made for an excellent theme. It is always nice to see the bright lights and every year there are certain houses that do an excellent job. Every photo is amalgamations of multiple photos in order to expose for the shadows while ensuring the highlights were not overblown.   

2013 12 09 – Light-emitting diode (LED) Christmas lights light up the front of the house. LEDs work by electroluminescence, the excitation of electrons emitting various wavelengths, as photons of energy. (Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 photo 1: @17mm f22 15 sec. I.S.O. 400 / photos 2: f4 1/60^th I.S.O. 400)

2013 12 10 – Christmas lights create a beautiful outline of a house off Sunny Acres Road. The discovery of electroluminescence, the first step towards LEDs, occurred in 1907 by H. J. Round using a silicon carbide crystal and a cat’s-whisker detector. The negative charge on the needle leads to a reaction with the positive charge of the silicon carbide, resulting in the release of photons of a particular wavelength within the visible light spectrum. (Nikon D7000 w 50 f.18 – Photo 1: @50mm f22 5sec I.S.O. 400 / Photo 2: @50mm f11 20sec I.S.O. 400)

2013 12 11 – Every year this house off Woodside Drive decorates for the holidays. The world record for the most number of Christmas lights on a residential property is set by an Australian family in November 2013 with a total of 502,165 bulbs. (Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @17mm f10 (1^st: 8sec. 2^nd: 1.6sec 3^rd: 1/4^th) I.S.O. 400)

2013 12 12 – Every year this house on Union Street, East of Sir John A. MacDonald Boulevard, creates a beautiful display of lights. According to legend the first Christmas tree was invented in 1536 by Marin Luther a German Monk. (Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @35mm f13 (1^st: 2.5 sec 2^nd: 8 sec 3^rd: 30 sec) I.S.O. 400)

2013 12 13 – The Emerald Adult Community Centre is beautifully lit up for the holidays. It was in 1882 when the first set of Christmas lights were wired together by Edison’s friend, Edward H. Johnson. (Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @19mm f16 (1^st: 4 sec 2^nd: 15 sec) I.S.O. 200)

2013 12 14 – Candy cane lights line the driveway of this nicely decorated house off Speers Boulevard in Amherstview. The first account of a candy cane goes back to 1670 when a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany devised a way to keep children quite during worship. He decided to have it bent in order to remind the children of the shepherds that visited to Jesus.  (Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @19mm (1^st: 10 sec. 2^nd: 30 sec.) I.S.O. 200 (-25°C)

2013 12 15 – Every year this house off Keenan Drive decorates for Christmas. The tradition of placing lights in the windows is rooted in Irish history. During the British persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland families would display lights in their windows as a sign to priests they were welcome. (Nikon D7000 w 50 f1.8 @50mm f22 (1^st: 6 sec. 2^nd: 15 sec.) I.S.O. 200)

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