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Don’t you just love Christmas? What’s not to like, everything gets illuminated with countless little lights, everyone is wearing a Santa hat, the entire population buys gifts, the amount of which exceeds many times over that of the population of the UK (mostly with money they don’t even have) and a great majority of adults, gets drunk and disorderly!<\/p>\n
The bigger or more extravagant the Christmas event, the more chances it gets to make the news and as long a photographer is there to offer his services, then job done.<\/p>\n
Then… a few day after everyone sober up, they show love and affection to their family and friends, specially the kids. And don’t kids just love Christmas? No idea though, that their parents got utterly plastered during the same festivity.<\/p>\n
Nothing to do with Jesus’ birth though, don’t take my word for it, look it up!<\/p>\n
Anyway… photographs to do with Christmas, its build-up and crescento… honestly I wouldn’t know where to start.<\/p>\n
Here in Wales a lot of things happen that scream Christmas and make the news and at the end of the day, I am only making my living looking through a camera and pressing a silly button (called shutter release button to be utterly pedantic) at the right time, which someone called it “decisive moment<\/a>“, a phrase that us press photographers love to use when we get great pictures.<\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong, it takes some skill to know what to look for, frame it and press the button at the right time.<\/p>\n