{"id":4016,"date":"2011-12-30T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2011-12-31T08:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:33:59","slug":"christmas-2011-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/christmas-2011-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2011 Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard taking pictures with kids, especially when you&#8217;re also watching those same kids. But, I did the best that I could. Here are a few highlights, the rest are on <a href=\"http:\/\/tomchak.smugmug.com\/photos\/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=20811818&amp;AlbumKey=PpjSTf\">SmugMug<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/christmas-2011-photos\/img_9458\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2221,1341\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324829318&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2011 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9458\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-600x362.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-1024x618.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4018\" title=\"IMG_9458\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-600x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-600x362.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9458-1024x618.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4020\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/christmas-2011-photos\/img_9529\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2808,1872\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324829910&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2011 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9529\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-600x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4020\" title=\"IMG_9529\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9529-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/christmas-2011-photos\/img_9487-version-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1030,708\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324829398&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2011 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9487 &#8211; Version 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-600x412.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-1024x704.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4019\" title=\"IMG_9487 - Version 2\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-600x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-600x412.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9487-Version-2.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4017\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/christmas-2011-photos\/img_9447\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1872,2808\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1324829233&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2011 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9447\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-400x600.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4017\" title=\"IMG_9447\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_9447.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard taking pictures with kids, especially when you&#8217;re also watching those same kids. But, I did the best that I could. Here are a few highlights, the rest are on SmugMug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,115,21,170],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-christmas","tag-max","tag-sydney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-12M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4931,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/oh-christmas-tree-the-lighting-of-the-tomchak-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":0},"title":"Oh Christmas Tree &#8211; The Lighting Of The Tomchak Tree","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"More than any year in the past, the kids were really into getting the Christmas decorations out and up. Andrew asked me on more than one occasion when we were putting lights on the house (the real answer is maybe never, but I told him not this year). 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It's great to see how excited they are, and this year more than any year in the past they were all counting the days down\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Video Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/video\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-1225_ChristmasMorning_v1_Blog_poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-1225_ChristmasMorning_v1_Blog_poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013-1225_ChristmasMorning_v1_Blog_poster.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4767,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/christmas-in-october-thank-you-aunt-shirley\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":2},"title":"Christmas In October! 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It took us about a week to finally open the box (we knew we would need to set some serious time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;iPhone&quot;","block_context":{"text":"iPhone","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/iphone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-7.13.59-AM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-7.13.59-AM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-7.13.59-AM.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-7.13.59-AM.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":434,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-photos-from-detroit\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":3},"title":"Christmas Eve Photos from Detroit","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas Eve Photos from Detroit","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photo Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photo Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":433,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/at-ihop-for-christmas-breakfast\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":4},"title":"At IHOP for Christmas breakfast.","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photo Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photo Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/l1dy4sryp3ebo47ysgsc7ygg_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":431,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":5},"title":"Merry Christmas!","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"December 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"9:46am Another day at home just waiting for something new to happen. 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