My Pentax-A 24mm F2.8 meets Santa Claus

[markus maurer]

<p>Santa and his servant came to town yesterday evening and I took a few snaps for the local community.<br>

I used the Pentax-A 24mm F2.8 with a crossfilter on the Pentax K10D with a AF280T in manual mode and a slow speed flash setting in M mode of around 1/13 second, ISO 200 and F 5.0-6.3 and bounced the flash into the white tent when possible. The shots are a bit underexposed and therefore noisier than I wished but I hope you still like to see our version of Santa :-)</p>

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[ukhov]

<p>Nice photo Marcus!We say hello to Santa and catch blink of Rudolf eye on the 4th....Don't ask me who help our Santa,but guy very look like John Lennon !</p><div></div>

[sumo_kun]

<p>Nice photos, but is it just me or does the black santa look evil? :p</p>

[markus maurer]

<p>Yury I prefer your Santa version not just because of the animals, a nice photo.<br>

Chuk, the role of the black servant was historically to make naughty children afraid and his name is "Schmutzli" which means a person who is dirty (from coal). In my childhood they even packed naughty children into the sack for educational reason, gladly nowadays Santa and his helper (and the mule) are overall friendly and noone has to fear them anymore.</p>

[sumo_kun]

<p>Ah, that explains things :)</p>

[rparmar]

<p>The black Santa scares me, but the caribou look tasty.</p>

[andrewg_ny]

<p>Schmutzli looks like he might be exposing himself in picture #3?</p>

[william_koehler1]

<p>The first thing I thought when I saw the first picture was "yank the beard off the guy in black, and you have Santa Meets The Nazgul."</p>