I Heart Bokeh

I love bokeh...



....but heart bokeh is better . HLT

Glass

My Dad had a passion for glass. But not just any glass. He loved crystal...Viennese, Irish, Scottish. I have never really appreciated the beauty of this glass until I looked at it through the lens of my camera. The way it reflects and refracts the light is captivating.



I was playing around with photographing a piece of this pink Viennese glass and I thought the bokeh it produced was wonderful

Nose Bokeh

This one is for Michelle - Nose Bokeh!

The Bokeh Bug

Wow...talk about rising to the challenge. My friend Michelle shot some fantastic pictures this morning with heart bokeh. I am so excited to have a friend that has the same passion for bokeh as I do!!! You can see her amazing pics on her blog here.

I took this picture this morning out in my yard. I have been reading a lot about using light to create different photographic effects and I was really excited to see some "bokeh" in my pictures. Basically "bokeh" are those fuzzy, blurry spheres you sometimes see in the background. The cool thing is that you can manipulate the shape of the bokeh as it takes on the shape of the lense. As standard lenses are spherical, the bokeh is spherical. However you can make a heart shaped lense cover that will cause your bokeh to appear heart shaped. Read more about it here. Heart-shaped bokeh...that is going to be my next project