Dailies May - Dec 09
Wed. 10-21-09 - Yes, another daliaha. sorry folks it all I can come up with right now.
I have been off and on looking at all the great fall posts but just don't have the energy right now to post comments. Been a hard week and I am not feeling so great but hopefully I am on the recovering end now. Got a call from the dermatologist last week and one of the clippings was a melanoma and today they did a bit of surgery around it. He said that it was a really good thing that they found it so early, so Praise the Lord for that.
The song that God has given me the past few days that keeps bouncing around in my head is Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, let the people rejoice. Yes, I will Praise the Lord
Hope you are all having a blessed week.
Pearl
![Friday 11-6-09 - Home and Lisa is doing well. The doctor said the surgery went well and he was very pleased. The humira has done a good job of healing. Lisa is in a great deal of pain but otherwise doing great.<br />
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Thank you for all your prayers and well wishes.<br />
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Pearl<br />
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Later update - Ha - I have been wanting to do this for ages. I finally looked up the word bokeh. It has only been 8 months and I have had a little big going on but when I saw Sunday's childs comment I just did it. I learned something today!! I have a great lens, I could not do this on purpose if my life depended on it.<br />
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the æsthetic 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" or "bad" bokeh, respective. 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.<br />
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Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.<br />
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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.<br />
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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". Bokeh replaced the previous spelling boke that had been in use at least since 1996, when Merklinger had also suggested "or Bokeh if you prefer.<br />
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The term bokeh has appeared in photography books at least since 1998. It is sometimes pronounced /ˈboʊkə/ (boke-uh).](https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Dailies-May-Dec-09/i-3S5d9Vf/4/4340b48d/Ti/091-Ti.jpg)
RunColorado
on October 22, 2009great capture, this is gorgeous!
349390pitchingwedge33
on October 22, 2009beautiful presentation....
Sam (tylwydd)
on October 22, 2009Nice flower and colors !
irishmurr
on October 22, 2009I so enjoy looking at your photos -- especially these lovely flowers! Take care and hope you're feeling better soon.
dakotacowboy
on October 22, 2009wonderful color and crispness
fotoeffects
on October 22, 2009Really pretty shot and framing. Hope you are recovering well from the surgery. Sounds like it was good you had the clippings removed, too!
dirkster
on October 22, 2009Rejoice in what you have around you...no dahlias in my neighborhood that I know of...lovely!