Christmas with the Family

Hey guys,

Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating today and Merry late Christmas to everyone who celebrated yesterday, like we did.

If you didn't know, Germany and a few other countries around the globe celebrate Christmas mainly on Christmas Eve, which is also when we open our presents and have big meals with the family and things like that.

Here are some pictures of the wonderful evening I got to spend with my family:

Our Christmas dinner has always been the above, and everyone tells me it looks weird. It's normal to me, because I've never had anything else, but I do understand why someone would think it's a bit odd, especially because of the pineapple.

Our Christmas dinner consists of turkey, gravy, dumplings, 'fried' pineapple (so it's warm, which is actually super nice) and red cabbage. Yum!

My beautiful family :)

AND THEN I GOT MY 50MM LENS! 

One of my presents this year was a 50mm lens for my Canon EOS 70D, and I am in love! I've been wanting a 50mm lens for a while now, and the one I got is absolutely beautiful. For those who are interested, it's the f/1.4 one.

Above is a picture of my mum and I love the effect which the lens creates, how it totally focuses on the face and blurs everything else out. So pretty!

So obviously I started playing around with it and took about 50 pictures of our dessert. (Which was super good by the way! Homemade applesauce with cinnamon and vanilla, roasted walnuts and pecans with a thick vanilla and cinnamon yoghurt kinda thing).

Then my Dad stole the camera for a second, when I was laying on my mum's lab, feeling like a little baby again as she was stroking my head and back.

And today, I played around with the lens a bit more. I love the tiny apertures it is capable of doing and GAWD! - I will be talking about this for a while in the upcoming posts, be prepared...

I hope you have/had a nice Christmas with your loved ones,

Leoni