Smoky Bokeh

If you aren’t into photography, then this probably will be some completely useless information for you. In fact, I can’t promise that it will be helpful either way. In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image. Depending on my settings, sometimes you’ll notice that my background is all out of focus. When I do this, it’s usually because I want to blur out the distracting background and put the focus on my subject, but I also love me some pretty bokeh! Okay, so for what  I learned…Scott burned some stuff in the backyard this weekend, and we were there helping, which of course means standing around not helping at all.
Turns out smoke makes for some fancy bokeh.Check out the background in the next picture. It looks like brush strokes, and I’m digging it. Right about the time I realized this, Andrew came over, the Saints kicked off, and the fire went out. I can see that I’m going to be looking for things to set on fire in the future. Watch out!