One more Bokeh from Today

There is so much magic happening in the natural world right now. This emerging of life each year, amazes me more and more through my tool of photography. It is if I am almost seeing things I cannot usually see. I don't know if it's because I was born at this time of year, but I continue to be enraptured each year by the beauty of Spring and new life in the plants and trees.

Boulder Bat Mitvah Photography

Looking forward to photographing Samara's bat mitzvah next month. We did a quick shoot at sunset tonight at my studio location. A great season for outdoor portraits. Hope to create yours soon!

Bokeh

In photography, bokeh is the blur,or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Sometimes bokeh is misleadingly defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." since it is the characteristic of the image, not the lens itself. However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.

-Wikipedia
In these photos, I deliberately play with depth of field and light to render this effect.

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.[3] However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.


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". The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.[9] The term bokashi (暈かし) is related, meaning intentional blurring or gradation.

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 March/April 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" -Wikipedia

Tonsils

If anyone tells you having tonsils out is no big deal, it is not true! And if your kid has to have them out, make sure you spend the first night in the hospital, which we did not. In hindsight, I truly wish we had. Maya had the hugest tonsils and after years of issues, they came out at Children's Hospital in Denver

last week. A lovely warm Spring Break is allowing for a nice week of recovery. And a nice facetime visit of the family back in NY added some fun to the healing. Could not resist the image of the tonsils. I'm a photographer, I have to photograph all of it!!

Boulder, Colorado Wedding Memory

A beautiful bride and her newborn at their Boulder Colorado wedding.

Day by Day Spring opens

Looking forward to showcasing new images of Spring for the 2012 Open Studios. Just applied this week so I hope to be participating so you can come visit the studio on those 2 special weekends in October. Check back to hear the outcome!

Steamboat Springs-Srtawberry Hot Springs

What an amazing, magical place! Two days skiing on the mountain in 65 degree weather and a soak in Strawberry Hot Springs which is like a little hobbit land. We were even treated to fireworks and skiers coming down the mountain lit up like chili peppers!

Slow Down Spring!

The weather has been so unseasonably warm and the trees are starting to bud-slow down, it's too soon!

Spring Ahead

We lost an hour but gain an hour of daylight-enjoy the long days of light!

Healing through Music

On the full moon, rising warmly in the east, yoga friends gathered to share music for healing a community yoga teacher who has suffered 4 back surgeries. A beautiful gathering to support a friend....

The Season of Letting Go

Letting Go and Opening to Spring!

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-- Raymond Lindquist

Love over the Years

Last fall, I photographed Nikki and Chris's wedding which was fabulous!! Instead of the anniversary dance, they asked the couples who were married 5 years, 20 years and 50 years to share how they kiss....and this is what they did. What fun and so inspiring!!