Boy, I am not a professional photographer – that’s for sure! I remember having the same trouble last year. I just can’t get a photo that truly reflects the way the tree looks. These are pretty good, but the colors are more vivid, the lights are more sparkly – you know what I mean. I took these last night as I tweaked the tree’s final look. Pardon the television – our tree is in the den, and our house is tiny. The lights around the window were my husband’s solution as to what to do with the end of the final string of lights.
Here it is in daylight. After gathering vintage ornaments for several years, we’ve reached the point where 95% of the ornaments are vintage and the rest are ornaments that were given to us as presents or are from my younger days. I hadn’t realized how I had unconsciously created my favorite palette of pink and aqua until I looked at finished tree. And the clear lights really add brilliance to the ornaments. We love it.
I tried this one with the tripod – which was one of the recommendations I read during a google search. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough yet about f stops and shutter speed to do anything more with these!
This is the ornament that is always put on the tree by both of us. It is our Winston ornament. Winston was our first dog. He left us too soon, at only eight years old, not that many years after we moved out East. We miss him everyday.
I hope you enjoyed the tour of the tree!
Love all your wonderfull Christmas decorations in your home…and I think the pictures you made off the tree are perfect!
x,Sabiha
I DubYa TreePictureTaker of the Year! Great pics of your tree and ornaments. I love a real tree and the smell of Christmas that it brings! Unfortunately, real trees don’t like me…last one I had gave me puffy eyes and sneezy nose by the time I had it decorated! Merry Christmas, Claudia!
Oh Claudia…
Sweetie your tree is absolutely magnificent. I so love it. I love the ornament that was a little string of acorns. How devine was that. I also adore the topper. Ofcourse all of the ornaments were beautiful, and I thank you so much for sharing with me.
Have a wonderful day sweetie.
Country hugs…Sherry
Hi Claudia:
Your tree is lovely and so very festive. I’m sure you can guess which are my favorite ornaments…of course, the acorns and the dog!
Thanks, always, for visiting Brynwood and leaving comments. They mean so much to me. Have a wonderful day, my friend.
xoxo
Donna
lol Yes, I know what you mean! I tried all the settings on my camera last night trying to get a nice evening picture of our tree. It was a disaster.
I think your pictures are beautiful, as is your tree.
~michelle
What a beautiful tree all dressed up!! Your Winston ornament is precious.
Have a wonderful day!
Hugs,
Marsha
It is GORGEOUS!
I love it!
You did a fantastic job, Claudia…
XO,
Sheila :-)
hi claudia,
what a happy tree! it is very sweet and each ornament is so pretty. love the acorns. our house is tiny and so i can relate!
don’t you love to just sit and look at the tree? so fun.
xo
Claudia, your tree is beautiful! I love all of your vintage ornaments. But I especially love the one of Winston. It makes me cry because I love my dogs so much and cant stand the thought of losing them. I love that you have an ornament of him. Just so sweet!!
Love,
Amy
I understand exactly what you mean about photographing the tree as I experienced the exact same thing this past week, honey. It was very stressful trying to capture the true beauty of it. But you certainly did a tremendous job—both with the tree and the photographs. Much better than I did. It is lovely, chick!
xoxo,
Connie
Ooooh, mine will post on 12/17….
The tree is so beautiful! I knew it would be lovely- but it is even more glorious than I imagined!
I think your tree looks great! Good pics! I just did squeeze the tv out of my pics! hehe It is hard to get it good with the lights on. But you cannot get the whole effect if you don’t have them on. Your ornaments are wonderful. I love your tree is big enough for the large stars and snowflakes! That is really great!
Your Winston ornament is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs, Lisa
Claudia, I’ve been following your tree saga and I must tell you that it turned out beautifully! My goodness that’s a huge and perfect tree!
I love all your vintage ornaments and I see you got your new bottlebrush ornaments on there too. It all looks splendid!
Thanks for sharing and enjoy your tree!
Hugs,
Teresa
Oh, Claudia, your tree is spectacular! Well now I’m longing to have a real tree again after seeing yours (I think this is year 3 with our artificial tree)..
Your Winston ornament is my absolute favorite. How very special, and what wonderful memories are represented by it.
The pinks and aquas are gorgeous together. Isn’t it funny how we end up making ‘collections’ of colors or things without even realizing, until much later, that we’ve done so?
And I do love the big vintage-styled ornaments you posted about the other day from your friend’s shop – they look wonderful mixed in with all the real vintage!
Now it’s time to sit back at night with just the tree lights on and enjoy!… Donna
I knew your tree would be BEAUTIFUL! Yes, it is absolutely georgeous. I love all the decorations of different sizes and colors. Your photos are great.
Love it! You did a great job not only decorating it but taking the pics as well!! :)
When should I be there for the cocoa and cookies? I can bring eggnog! ;)
Merry Christmas!!
Ruth
Claudia,
I think your tree is gorgeous and I love all your pretty ornaments. And, I think your pictures are wonderful….
Your tree looks lovely! And yeah you are right they are very hard to photograph.
Thank you for your compliments on my garland. I made the one in my banner too.
It looks beautiful Claudia.
I used to love mt tree at home that was full of ornaments I’d collected over the years.
I don’t have a tree or any ornaments here…too busy this year but even next year it just won’t feel the same starting with all new ornaments :-(
You got that gorgeous tree all dressed up and ready to shine! It looks beautiful! (I don’t know a single thing about a camera but to point and shoot.)
Brenda
How beautiful the tree looks – I really love a real tree and I bet it smells wonderful. It is very hard to get a good camera of a tree. I find it hard, also.
Your Christmas tree is so cute and I agree that they are hard to photograph. I had the same trouble with mine. Your pics turned out great, though. You can see the lights and the ornaments, which is tricky. I just love your style. Fun, fun, fun.
Hi Claudia!
Your tree is beautiful and I can see what the camera didn’t catch, believe me. Those ornaments, including Winston’s are so special and have seen many Christmas’…I’m happy to see them in a home such as yours.
Sit back and enjoy your beautiful decorations girl~
Merry Christmas!
everything vintage
Oh I love your tree..your images are lovely. I just had to stop by and thank you for the caring comment you left on my blog. Your kind words have helped me to carry on. Thank you my friend..and I love your Winston ornament..that is such a great idea. I will have to look for a Rosie for my tree.
It looks gorgeous. I see you solved your light delima finally! Happy Holidays Claudie!
Claudia, it all looks just fabulous. Beautiful tree and ornaments and your pics really are great – you did good!
OK, you win! You guessed the city – and we’re off with our ‘traveling granddaughter’ on Fri. Big Apple dressed for Christmas, maybe some snowflakes, lights galore – what more do I need to get into the spirit……comfy footwear and a lot of warm scarves for sure!
I love your tree! I think vintage ornaments just bring so much spirit to a tree . . . I always wonder what other Christmases they’ve seen . . . who the people were, how they celebrated, what the gifts were and I like to think all that energy is stored in that ornament. I also love the giant stars and snowflakes!
Hi Claudia! I love your big Christmas tree! They are hard to photograph, aren’t they? But you did a very nice job…it’s beautiful!
Merry Christmas!!
Hugs, Debi
Claudia! Your tree is beautiful in pinks and aquas! Oh so lovely in its vintage dress! Love your work! (Hope you’re feeling better!) Hugs, Coralie
Loved my visit to your blog and had to agree with a big “you are so right” about the difficulty of capturing the beauty of Christmas trees. In fact, my last post was on this very subject.