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Family, Netflix Stream Team

Kids Get Their Own New Year’s Eve Countdowns with Netflix

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#ShareYourCare NYE Countdown

I’m doing a bit of double duty on this post. As both a member of the Care Bears Share Your Care Ambassadors and the Netflix Stream Team I want to tell you about some great New Year’s Eve countdowns that you can watch ANYTIME. So, if you have some really little ones line my son Andrew then you can watch the Care Bears & Cousins countdown around 8pm. Or for Eva we can let her have her own New Year’s Eve Countdown at 9pm with Project Mc2. We’ll probably watch all six of the countdowns because we watch pretty much all of the Netflix shows in this house.

Each year we do an appetizer meal for our New Year’s Eve dinner with the kids. I get all sorts of great appetizers and we watch a movie and have a great time. This year Netflix not only provided some great countdowns to everyone who has Netflix but they even sent us a special New Year’s Eve kit and we’ll be posting images from our New Year’s Eve celebration.

The one thing that I’d like though is some special countdowns for us parents from the Netflix original shows like Longmire, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange is the New Black and so many more. Maybe even one from the upcoming new show Fuller House. That would be great, because us parents sometimes want to celebrate the New Year nice and early so that we can get to sleep, too. Continue reading Kids Get Their Own New Year’s Eve Countdowns with Netflix →

Photo-A-Day, Photography

A Very Special Night

Photo-A-Day #3915
Star Image Christmas Trees

One of our Christmas Books is called On That Special Night. I was starting to put away the Christmas things and saw this book and the tree. I had to try and make one of those longer exposure shots with the lights of the tree making flared out star patterns. I love how those images look. I had been meaning to get over to La Salette and make some more of those with the lights there, however with the incredibly warm weather and all that we have been doing during the holiday we haven’t gotten back over to take photos. I also haven’t felt super holiday spirited because there isn’t any snow, not that I want to be shoveling or anything like that. The lights just look so much better with snow on the ground.

To get the star like effect in the image I used an F22 aperture. This creates te effect when shooting for a longer period of time. I set my ISO to 100 and that made the time the lens was open set to 30 seconds which not only make the star effect but makes the image sharper. I took some shorter exposure shots but the tree wasn’t as sharp.