How I Almost Went Crazy Taking a Picture of a Wreath

 Originally posted in October, linked Nov. 24th to Red Writing:

I didn't know what to name by post today.  I could have also used "Why I Don't Judge What Books People Want Anymore."  Much better, huh? 

You see, when we first opened the bookstore, I was pretty critical of what books people wanted.  Especially when people wanted books on digital photography.  Oh sure, I could understand the reasoning behind wanting a book about old-fashioned photography, with all the settings you had to change and all.  But with a digital camera you just point and shoot, right?  Wrong.  I learned that last night. 

I took 36 (yes, I counted) pictures of my finished wreath trying to get a picture.  After about 20 shots I realized that I could change the settings on my camera from Auto Adjustment to Twilight or High Sensitivity.  Duh.  I never knew what all those different settings were for.  So without furthur ado, here are some pictures.  Don't judge.  I never said that after all the effort any of the pictures turned out good!

Here's some of what I started out with.  I got all my ornaments at the Dollar Tree (everything's $1) except for the tiny ornaments.  I got them at Hobby Lobby ($1.99/pack @ 50% off). The wreath was $6 or $7 at Michaels.

Here's the wreath almost completed. (I took this one at the bottom of the stairs from the den to the kitchen.  I think it's one of the better shots).

One of the pictures during the first series.  This is on auto adjustment.

Here's the same shot as above, taken looking down on my kitchen table, but on another setting.  I think this setting is called twilight.  (If you look closely you can see our light fixture in each of the shiny ornaments.  Reminds me of Disney's Cinderella when she's scrubbing the floor and wishing she could go to the ball and suddenly she has a chorus of Cinderellas who live in the bubbles singing with her.)

Here's another one I took at the top of our stairs on the high sensitivity setting.

The only thing I really need to do is get something to cover up the spots of naked styrofoam.  At least I spraypainted it red before I started.

Poor photo quality aside, I know the wreath is still not perfect.  It sure doesn't look like this one.  But as The Nester says, "It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful." And Shane said it was great and to stop while it looked good.  I don't think he really realized what it even was, though, because he asked me when I was going to hang it up.

Ok, on to something else that doesn't involve a glue gun (see, in my rant about the camera I didn't even START on the glue gun.)