Some gratuitous bokeh, in my hastily slapped together midnight-ish photo. Here’s to a new year, and a new decade!
Edit: Leah suggested that I explain “bokeh” to all the non-photographers out there, so here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
From our home to yours, I would like to wish all of my Christmas celebrating readers a very Merry Christmas today, and a hope that all have joyous and wondrous holiday season. 
It’s been just a week since Elayne and Tara exchanged their vows and celebrated their wedding, and the happy couple is now officially married in the state of Massachusetts (and though we’re still fighting for marriage equality here in New York, their Massachusetts marriage is recognized here.)
It was a wonderful day, and you can now relive it with them. The complete set of photos from Elayne and Tara’s wedding is now up for viewing and purchase at http://juliepecenco.photoreflect.com/
Technically, it is two days early for Passover, but tonight Leah and I attended the annual Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta Passover Seder. Being Italian American and having been raised Catholic, this was only my second seder, the first a moving event put together for a group of us in the dorm by a college friend way back in my freshman year of college. The UU seder was almost entirely in English, oddly, but some of the Jewish members of the congregation contributed some Hebrew versions of the prayers to the events. As with nearly every event at our church, it was filled with laughter and fellowship, and plenty of good food. And unlike Easter this year, this holiday came in the midst of delightful spring weather, with temperatures in the seventies and bright sunshine.
The solstices and equinoxes mean one thing – another event of the World Wide Panorama. The theme this time was Beginnings, which is appropriate for the vernal equinox. It might have been snowing at the time, but spring is clearly on the way (this past week has been delightful.) My interpretation of the theme was to include my nieces, both as subjects and in helping me shoot the panorama. Molly has been interested in photography since she was old enough to press the shutter button, and she and I made a panorama together last summer. We shot two panoramas when I was visiting at Easter, and I chose the second one, which we created on Easter Sunday, as my submission. Using the camera’s IR remote, each of the girls took three of the six images around that went into the panorama. I added the zenith (top) and nadir (bottom) and did the stitching and post processing, of course.
Until I work out the coding for launching full screen Flash panoramas from the blog, I’ll just present this small embedded one. You can see it fullscreen at the WWP. Visit my page at the WWP to see all of my submissions over the past few years.
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