The Christmas lights strewn on the trees lining Westwood Avenue in downtown Westwood are simply elegant yet symmetrically impressive. Standing on the street and gazing a down the street across the 3 blocks of lights creates an illusion the lights stretch on forever into the infinite darkness. It may have been a brown Christmas but Christmas lights have a way of blinding you to surrounding circumstances and bringing the reason Christmas is important to mind, if only for a short while.

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Christmas Eve on Westwood Ave.

Westwood, NJ
Notes: First night panorama picture. Used a remote shutter to prevent camera shake during each of the more than 50 source images. The nadir cap picture was not used because I couldn’t hold the camera steady enough and I couldn’t blend out my shadow. So I emphasized my shadow and put a black cap at the bottom. The overall result was quite good, most of the pictures were clear and stitched cleanly.

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