POTD - Globes of Light

Just playing around with photographing the lights on the tree and since I'm convinced there aren't enough lights on the tree to get that spectacular "twinkle light bokeh" you see at the holidays, I decided to try my hand at creating globes of light.

I just turned off my auto focus, manually shot with the lights out of focus and combined two pictures with several blending layers and a texture for this result.


A monochromatic version:


I'm not 100% sure about the results, but it was fun playing with all the different effects and maybe I can use the pictures as a texture.