It's not quite the Twelve Days of Christmas, but we've started to decorate for the holidays. Every year I try to remember to take a shot of our Christmas tree, but I always seem to forget. This year, I'm going to capture our tree AND help you take a better picture of yours.

  Create Custom Bokeh Shapes With Your Camera

The second element in the Exposure Triangle is shutter speed. Your shutter speed represents the amount of time that the camera’s shutter stays open when you’re taking a photograph. The longer the shutter speed is open, the more light reaches your camera's sensor.

America, you love your guns. And you love your children. But they do not mix. Not that you would know it from perusing the line of guns marketed specifically for children by a company called Keystone Sporting Arms, which produced some 80,000 such guns in 2008 alone. 

According to an article in the Guardian, the guns come in a rainbow of assorted colours with cute names, like 'Cricket' and 'Chipmunk.'