Sunlight, Water, Refraction, and Trouble in the Streets
Sometimes the light and the angle and the droplet are just right, and they create a rainbow effect.
Bokeh is described as the visual effect created by a wide-aperture lens rendering out-of-focus points of light. It’s a Japanese word with a fairly short history.
There was a time, not so long ago, that getting everything in sharp focus was the ideal to strive for. Now, we like it every which way. Some photos in sharp focus, others not at all. When we get a subject’s eyes in focus, the odd and pleasant shapes in the background can be quite delightful.
Here we are, talking about light and beauty and photography, while masked agents who answer to no one are raiding our cities and hurting our people. What's to be done? Appreciating light and water and their beauty -- that's not extra -- it's a survival strategy. But there are millions and millions of people, in Minnesota, in the USA, all over the world, who are legal observing, who are protesting, who are advocating, who are writing. Every kind of person, standing up for human rights, for all humans.
The spots on the balls of light are caused by microscopic dust particles on my camera's sensor. Those specks don't usually show up in my day to day work, but they might when I'm shooting with a high aperture, e.g. f/16, or when I am shooting for this effect. They serve to remind me that I need to clean my sensor.
Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Diwali. The season of LIGHT begins when the light is dimmest (at least for those of us that live north of the Equator). By the end of this month, the 45th parallel will have tipped back toward the sun, enough to lengthen our days by sixty minutes! We are not the sun, but like the moon, we reflect its light.