autofantasia's photos with the keyword: Claus

For this week's Sunday Challenge , which was a sort of two for one type deal. The subject had to be anything new but then you also had to make it into Art ! You were also supposed to post it on Sunday, but as I kind of lost track of which day of the week it was I'm a wee bit late and I've also had to dip into the archives. Not too far back though as this was a shot I took with the Christmas challenge in mind. It's actually a Santa statue we bought earlier this month. It stands about 18 inches high and I took this shot of it in front of our Christmas tree so as to get some festive type bokeh. Then followed much processing to get the end result you see here ... hopefully it'll keep the Wicked Witch of the North happy! Probably best viewed on black if you have the time to spare!

A similar shot to the one I submitted for the recent Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of Christmas . This one processed to reflect the 'other side' of Christmas. With 1 in 4 people in the UK expected tp experience a mental health problem each year and loneliness on the increase (especially in the over Seventies) it would seem that not everyone will have the type of Christmas they might have wished for. Not so much merry or even white, but rather more lonely and blue. My thoughts then go out to those people for whom this Christmas may not be the happiest. Hopefully, 2015 will see them experience better times.

This little fellow is the latest addition to our collection of Christmas decorations and ornaments ... or expensive, outsourced, dust collecting toot as I heard someone call such items recently! Taken for The Sunday Challenge theme of show us your Christmas .