Super... Bokeh, Boke, ボケ, ぼけ, 散景, Desenfoque! [DOF]
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Not liked by the average person but some species of blow fly can help forensic scientise pin down the time of death of a body by looking at the size of the maggots. Some species can live for several months or even a year if overwintering. Here you can see the extended mouth part called the pseudo trachea and at the end what looks a bit like a mop is a device that consist of many tubes. Through these tubes the fly will gulp its stomach contents over the food to help digest and turn the food into a liquid to be swallowed up. Which reminds me where did I put my last large slice of Victoria Sponge as I'm very hungry now !
Secret rendezvous in the woods
Late night talks at the playground
Playful laughs that led to kissing
You spoke of rabbits
Just two teenagers who knew nothing
but were quick to learn
A summer that came and went
A few letters were sent back and forth
Then we lost touch
A couple years later I learned of your death
Could things have been different?
Should we have stayed in the woods?
- L. Magic
Photo taken @ The Notebook
In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring (good and bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means blur or haze, or boke-aji (ボケ味), the blur quality. This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, with additional meanings and nuances: 暈ける refers to being blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally hazy, befuddled, childish, senile, or playing stupid. Jisaboke (時差ボケ) (literally, time difference fog) is the term for jet lag. Nebokeru (寝ぼける ) is a verb denoting the actions or condition of someone who is half-asleep, or nodding off. Tobokeru means playing dumb, and toboketa kao refers to a poker face. The related term bokashi (暈かし) means intentional blurring or gradation; that is a noun form of the transitive verb bokasu 暈す which means to make something blurry, rather than to be blurry.
The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the May/June 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable. The spellings bokeh and boke have both been in use since at least 1996, when Merklinger had suggested or Bokeh if you prefer. The term bokeh has appeared in photography books as early as 1998. It is sometimes pronounced /ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə.
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One of my favorite childhood insects that still fascinates me to this day. I decided to go out in the field after sunset. It took a great deal of patience to photograph this firefly in the dark with my lens set to manual focus with a aperture of F/1.2. The mosquitos had a buffet with me that night. All in all it was worth it, and I'm happy with this shot.
Sony A7RIII paired with Sony 50mm F/1.2 GM.
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A cob web shining in the sunlight with some accentuated weeds and 4 visitors as food reserve for the spider!!
Prevost's squirrel or Asian tri-colored squirrel is a colourful species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and nearby smaller islands, with an introduced population in northern Sulawesi. Although the Prevost's squirrel is declining is some regions because of habitat loss and hunting, the species is not considered threatened since it generally remains common and widespread. It can live in somewhat disturbed habitats and often visits plantations or gardens. It mostly feeds on plant material, especially fruits, but also takes insects.
Higher classification: Callosciurus
Scientific name: Callosciurus prevostii
Family: Squirrel
Order: Rodent
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Could it be that spring is in the air, even though it is still the middle of winter here in Melbourne?
Today is a remarkably mild day, with sunny blue skies. I went for a walk the other week and I noticed that a few japonica buds were appearing from amidst their twiggy shapes, so imagine my delight when today on a walk I came across a wonderful red japonica in bloom, basking in the light, protected from the winds and warmed by the sun's rays.
Chaenomeles Japonica, known as either the Japanese Quince or Maule's Quince, is a species of flowering quince. It is a thorny deciduous shrub that is commonly cultivated. It is shorter than another commonly cultivated species, growing to only about one metre in height. The fruit is called Kusa-boke in Japanese.
Gilled mushrooms. Shot with my A7RIII and Carl Zeiss Sonnar F/2.8 AEJ Contax wide open.
F/2.8 SS/200/ISO 100
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Restaurant windows at my neighborhood (see previous photo).
Helios 77M-4 50mm f1,8 MC M42 MF
Sony α6000
"Le présent est un moment toujours court et cela même lorsque sa plénitude le fait paraitre éternel"
("The present is always a short moment, even when its fullness makes it seem eternal.")
Marguerite Yourcenar