Day 21/365: Bokeh Ball

One of the upcoming DP Review Challenges is "Trapped in your Bathroom". I have no intention on entering the challenge because there is really nothing interesting in my bathroom but the challenge did make me decide to take a photograph of something in my bathroom. This is a photograph of a glass dish filled with potpourri. Of course it's Bokeh Thursday and I'm kinda digging this bokeh.

What I love about this photograph: The colors and the fact that it's gorgeous without any post processing. SOOC (I only added my logo)
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 42.0mm; 1/60s; f/5.3; ISO 250

Day 14/365: Berries and Bokeh

 It's Thursday and I'm attempting bokeh again. Thanks for all of the advice that you guys gave me last week. I am looking forward to buying a new lens in the upcoming months. Until that time, I have to keep playing with my current lens.
This picture is of a Holly tree that my dad planted in the front yard back in the early 80's. I used to want to eat the berries when I was a kid....LOL, good thing that I didn't though. I often overlook this tree but am glad that it caught my idea today...it was a perfect bokeh subject.  

What I love about this photograph: I love how vibrant the red and green looks. SOOC (I only added my logo)
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 52.0mm; 1/40s; f/5.6; ISO 400

8/365: Bokeh Anyone?

So this is my first true attempt at bokeh. Sure I've taken some pictures that ended up with bokeh in them, but I wasn't trying to achieve bokeh. I just found out, this week, what bokeh actually is...and I love it. And am completely obsessed with it! *peeping through its window saying, "bokeh, i seeeeeee, you"* I've decided to end every week (Thursday) with a bokeh image...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I'm a day off, but I just had this wonderfully, brillant, bokeh idea...gimme a break, geesh.

What type of bokeh do you feel I achieved?:

1. good?
2. bad?
3. average?
4.  immpecable?
5. you call that bokeh? sam, you wouldn't know bokeh if it slapped you in the face!

Any help/advice that you all can give me on this topic would be greatly appreciated. I wish for, Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2010's bokeh to be sooooooo good that I need a cigarette 2 cigarettes afterwards :)

What I love about this photograph: It's bokeh. Come on, smile and wave at the bokeh!
Technical Stuff: Nikon D40; 55.0mm; 1/200s; f/7.1; ISO 200