The Beautiful Lightscape of Keizer's Holiday Spirit

(KEIZER, Ore.) - Holiday Christmas lights abound in Oregon's capitol city, and beautiful home light displays are also found in the city adjacent to Salem, Keizer, Oregon. They are showcased in this video by Jerry Freeman of Salem-News.com.

It is a time of year when people can express themselves in an electric art form, in a way that cheers the soul. Some neighborhoods have a competitive spirit when it comes to holiday lights and displays.

Some are very religious in nature, with scenes of the Nativity and other Christian themes. Whereas others have fun with animation and traditional motifs.

If you have Christmas light displays that you would like to see featured here, send them to newsroom@salem-news.com.

You can send photos or video clips, yousendit.com is an easy way to send files up to 100 MB. If you have solid video clips of one or more displays, or just great photos, send them in!

The video was edited by Tim King and the music, The Manger, is performed and written by Eric Loy:

Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com

Jerry Freeman is part of a new generation of dedicated news photographers who are entering the Internet news industry as a second career. He shares in common with many people the dream of becoming a visual journalist. Joining the Navy at an early age, and the Oregon Army Guard a few years later, Jerry has a wide range of life experiences. He describes himself as “an old truck driver with a new found passion to bare witness on the world’s events.” Teaming up with Salem-News.com he embarks on a new career as a video news photographer and reporter. Stay tuned, and see how it turns out. Jerry seems to exhibit natural talent and is already becoming a published member of the Salem-News.com team. You can send Jerry Freeman an email at this address: Salem-News@gravityshadow.com