This week Sofia has asked us to look up images we have taken that have bokeh. As I always use manual settings on my camera, and love using a very wide aperture, I have found I have been able to get bokeh when taking images of a single flower, for example.
Here is an example of a lovely rose, and I think the background colour complements it well, – bokeh ensures there is no distracting from the beauty of that single bloom:
Thinking about it, most of my bokeh images are with roses! I struggled to find much else in my quick trawl of the archive. But here’s some cow parsley in a field:
I then looked back a little further, and found a butterfly at Wisley, OK not loads of Bokeh:
A bee on a coneflower:
and heres an Agapanthus’ unfurling:
and last but not least, my favourite rose:
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What a beautiful bokeh selection! I love the last two especially.
Many thanks, Amy!
Fabulous examples Sue, especially some nature ones 🙂
Thanks, Brian!
Beautiful selections, Sue.
Thanks, Janet
Great bokeh selections Sue! I also shoot on manual.
Thanks, Anne!
The last one is very beautiful.
Glad you agree, Jude…I think that was my first moment when I realised the power of bokeh to separate your subject
Excellent. I love that first rose.
Thank you, John
Bokeh-liscious.
Thanks, Gavin!
Beautiful photos all. Fell in love with that unfolding Agapanthus.
Thanks for the ID of cow parsley. Now I know what some of my photos have
Thanks! And pleased to have identified something for you….
Wonderful photos, such soft feel to all of them.
The power of Bokeh!
Very nice, Sue. Especially that last rose.
More bokeh opportunities tomorrow hopefully 🙂
Who knows? But I want cherry trees!
Your examples illustrate the technique well, Sue.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks, Pete! I was surprised by how many I had
This challenge is so up your street, Sue.
Well, yes it is! Off to Kew tomorrow, maybe I’ll get a few more
Hope so. I won’t enter this challenge. Tiny moments when A is asleep for a few minutes doesn’t cut it. At all.
I’m sure, but you are loving every moment, which is the important thing!
I adore you sense of isolation. This post to so pretty 😀
Thank you, Cee! I do like the effects of Bokeh
They are all beautiful, Sue, but I think I like the agapanthus best. So full of promise!
Thanks, Elke!
Beautiful Sue! Loved all the flowers and you were too hard on yourself, as the butterfly image has some lovely bokeh. Loved the cow parsley especially, and never knew its name so I learned something as well!
Yay! Thanks Tina, pleased you enjoyed this post!
I appreciate the chance to learn a new word as well as to enjoy the isolation of each lovely image.
Thank you,, Elizabeth….I was pleased with these images, as I had started playing with wide apertures….a whole new world
Super examples – the last two are my favourites, I think, and I also love the bee 🙂
Many thanks, Sarah! But you know, I think I have a better bee one, must hunt it down
Gorgeous!
Thanks!
Oh, these are all so lovely, Sue – bokeh is with you often…and your favourite rose is a stunner!
I love wide apertures, and fairly lucky with bokeh! Pleased you like that rose, AC
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Stunning photos. The rose was my favorite as well, but a blue butterfly. Dang girl, that’s awesome. The bee was sweet and I believe the flower is an Echinacea, more commonly known as coneflower. Donna
Pleased you like these, Donna! The blue butterfly was one of the tropical ones in the glasshouse at Wisley garden some years ago.
Love the cow parsley one particularly Sue ! A very nice collection indeed !
Thank you, Poppy! I do love Bokeh