Working the scene

As I mentioned last week, one of the things I've been trying to do a bit more of is to work the scene a bit more.  Last week, I posted the most obvious picture of the Xmas decorations - namely, a full frontal pic of the decorations.

One of the other pics I managed to get was a picture from a bit further away with the big Xmas decoration in the background.

As you can tell from the picture, these were all taken at night.  As a result, I had fully opened the aperture on my camera.  In one respect, this was great as the bokeh effect on the lights came out pretty nice.  However, the downside is that the big Xmas decoration is a bit more blurry than I would have liked.  Still, overall, I quite like this pic.