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Life is gooood!

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It was a gorgeous week end. We were able to get out of the office to spend a little time at one of our favourilte places – a place accessible only by air. 😉

Lego-like

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We’ve been landscaping around our home and dug up many of the perrennials for relocation. Some of the vegetation stobbornly holds ground like this tiny cluster of Forget-me-nots. Kind of reminded me of the lego clusters of flowers my kids played with (and I still have!)

Family time

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The Canada geese (goose?) family is back – a smaller one than last year; only three goslings.

The hatch was later than last year.  Checking back to photos from the same day last year, the young were significantly bigger.

Surprise bokeh

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In photography, bokeh ( /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə, Japanese: [boke]) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.”  Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—”good” and “bad” bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. (Wikipedia)

I wasn’t trying to create this effect when shooting the irises just outside my front door the other morning, but was delighted to see the result.

What I was going for, besides the water droplets, was the hairy, caterpillar sections and their shadows.