We put up holiday lights to see how pretty they look when it gets dark.You want to capture those lights on your camera, but getting those lights to look right in your pictures can be more of a challenge than you bargained for.Professional photographers have lot of experience and cameras with all sorts of settings that most of us wouldn’t know what to do with. Here are three tips for the amateur photographers out there. Turn off your flash. If you use a flash, your automatic settings will respond to the light of your flash and your holiday lights won’t show up. Use a tripod. You just turned …
Santa makes is annual appearance through the streets of Lower Macungie Township this Saturday, Dec. 15, with the help of the Lower Macungie Fire Department. Firetrucks leave their respective stations at 2:30 p.m. to begin routes to the south, east and west sides of the township. Click here for the Dec. 15 routes. Santa will be helped by the Trexlertown Fire Department when he visits neighborhoods in the north end of the township on Dec. 22. Click here for the Dec. 22 routes.
Big One-Day-Sales used to be limited to holidays like Columbus Day and Labor Day but online sales have helped create a whole new market. First there was Cyber Monday and now there is Green Monday. After Walmart.com experienced their highest traffic day ever last year on the second Monday of December it is now referred to as Green Monday. A Dec. 6 press release from Walmart reads: As you may know, the second Monday in December, also known as Green Monday, is quickly becoming another major trend in online shopping. In fact, this day last year was Walmart.com’s highest traffic day in December. …
"City sidewalks, busy sidewalks dressed in holiday style. In the air there's a feeling of Christmas." -- Silver Bells There was so much going on Saturday along Main Street in Macungie during the 2012 Macungie Holiday. Anyone not in the holiday spirit yet certainly was after going from site to site. Gingerbread houses, Santa's sleigh, a Victorian giftshop and more were the backdrop of the annual treat. But it was the people who contributed the soul of the holiday spirit. Please feel free to add your photos of the event to these. The more the merrier!
Hey Macungie and Lower Macungie! Check out the first entry in our 2013 "Deck The House" contest, submitted by Glen Paisley. The grand prize winner of this nationwide contest will net $100,000 for his or her local school district. So if you think your holiday decorations are the best in the East Penn area, please upload a photo of your house on our contest page. And don’t worry about all those lights racking up the utility bill, because if you’re voted a finalist Patch will give you up to $500 to cover the expense. And don't worry if your decorations aren't extravagant. That’s OK! We’d still …
Macunige's annual celebration -- Macungie Holiday -- was enjoyed all over town today. Above is a photo of the home of Dr. and Mrs. John Albright. Their amazing Victorian Home at 20 E. Main St was the site of a holiday gift sale. The gifts were gorgeous, and there were plenty of them, for sure. But the home itself is spectacular. Check back with Patch for more photos of Macungie Holiday...or upload some of your own right here!
As the holiday shopping season goes into full swing, some people are maxing out their credit cards to pay for presents and others are setting budgets and sticking with them. Scour just about any Facebook stream or stop in a local coffee shop and chances are you’ll hear parents debating the merits of setting spending limits. Or, you'll hear them lamenting about just how much they've already spent. The ideas for a perfect limit do seem to vary rather greatly. Some parents say $100 per child is more than enough. Others tend to lean toward much more generous figures. After all, there’s nothing …
Each year, millions of children sit down to make a wish list for Santa, hoping he will make all of their Christmas dreams come true. But what if Santa actually wrote back? The United States Postal Service is now accepting "Letters From Santa," a program that allows any person to play Santa by sending a letter signed by Saint Nick to any child. According to a postal service news release, "The 'Letters From Santa' program helps parents fulfill the dreams of their own children." Instructions to send a letter from Santa: Write a letter to your child from Santa Claus and sign it "From Santa." Put …
Here's a Sampling of the best Cyber Week Sales A good place to start for online deals and coupons are CyberMonday.com and CyberMonday2012.com. Cyber Week sales are available now at Walmart online, with specials including a JVC 32-inch Class LCD 720p 60Hz HDTV for $199 and a Philips Norelco PowerTouch Electric Razor with bonus travel shaver for $32.97. "It's Cyber Monday all week long" at Kohl's online, where cyber specials end Dec. 1 and include a Polaroid ultra-thin digital video recorder for $169.99 and Seiko watches for men and women, in select styles, for $99.99. Barnes and Noble online …
