Our annual Night of Lights here in Mammoth was this past weekend. You bundle up in warm clothes, grab some xmas spirit and head up the mountain to Canyon Lodge for the show. It’s always a great time and a good place to have a camera. I headed up with simply with a D3s and 24f1.4AFS, shooting at ISO 3200 and f1.4 the whole time, making it simple and fun. Now us mountain folks do this Christmas lights thing a little different then most. The first thing you should notice is the groomers have their cats in the shape of a Christmas tree (a fat, short one). Then with the fireworks, the top two images, you’ll see the Christmas tree shape again. The last image, it’s just a big explosion, I like big explosions. All the images were taken handheld at around 1/200. The one element I was trying to capture but really didn’t were all the folks with their iPhones up in the air trying to take pictures. You can see some glows from them in the foreground. It was a lot of fun with a lot of friends, great way to start off the week!