The Bokeh Club

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 03:15 AM - **3 Likes**

Flowers and bokeh, natural partners.

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D1N0 · 07-11-2018, 06:30 AM - **2 Likes**

Bokeh gone wonky with Pentacon 200mm F4:

Because of this:

**goatsNdonkey** · 07-11-2018, 06:43 AM - **6 Likes**

Originally posted by WPRESTO

Very soft bokeh behind this opening black-eyed Susan (probably).

It looks exactly like a new Black-eyed Susan flower opening to me. Rudbeckia hirta -- the term hirta refers to the particular type of hairs that are seen all over the green parts of the plant.

Here are some (native) Black-eyed Susans growing with (alien but widely naturalized) Queen Anne's Lace (aka Wild Carrot), Daucus carota, growing in part of my pasture. Sometimes there is a tiny reddish or purplish dot near the center of the Queen Anne's Lace, but I have never seen the pink color in the earlier poster's image. Perhaps there is a horticulturally modified variant growing there. There are some small white asters of some variety in this pic, too. I posted this in another thread recently, but I've forgotten which one.

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 09:34 AM - **2 Likes**

Crown vetch with a slightly bokehed background. This is a plant that I hate - - HATE, HATE, HATE - - It has invaded a nice patch of tiger lilies we have, it's slowly crowding or choking them out, and it utterly impossible to eradicate. And by the way I HATE THIS PLANT, but the flowers are kind of pretty. Perhaps the only plant I hate more is Oriental bittersweet. I want all of it deported.

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**goatsNdonkey** · 07-11-2018, 10:07 AM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by WPRESTO

Crown vetch with a slightly bokehed background. This is a plant that I hate - - HATE, HATE, HATE - - It has invaded a nice patch of tiger lilies we have, it's slowly crowding or choking them out, and it utterly impossible to eradicate. And by the way I HATE THIS PLANT, but the flowers are kind of pretty. Perhaps the only plant I hate more is Oriental bittersweet. I want all of it deported.

There was crownvetch on the dam for our pond, when we bought the place in the early 1980s, and now the danged stuff is all over. It isn't good animal forage, so I have been trying to get rid of it in my pasture. I hate using herbicides, but Bonide Poison Ivy Killer, seems to do a good job of knocking it down, and doesn't kill grassses. Generally I just spot spray with a pump sprayer. (I wait about a month before letting animals graze where I've used that spray). Perhaps you could wrap or shield or at least do your best to avoid the lily plants, since it will kill or damage any broad-leaved plant. A word of warning, though, sometimes the crownvetch will resprout the next year in some of the same places, either because some bits of root didn't kill or because it has left a lot of its infernal seeds on and in the ground anywhere it has been growing for very long!

We have a terrible invasive bush here, too, the Autumn Olive. It was actually promoted by the state DNR years a go as a good wildlife habitat plant. Birds certainly love the berries, which is how it gets planted all over beyond where it was intentionally planted. It has an upside that the crownvetch doesn't have: our three goats just love to strip and eat the bark from as many Autumn Olive branches as we want to cut and carry to them. The branches have thorny spurs, but the goats just eat them, too.

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 10:12 AM - **2 Likes**

Originally posted by goatsNdonkey

There was crownvetch on the dam for our pond, when we bought the place in the early 1980s, and now the danged stuff is all over. It isn't good animal forage, so I have been trying to get rid of it in my pasture. I hate using herbicides, but Bonide Poison Ivy Killer, seems to do a good job of knocking it down, and doesn't kill grassses. Generally I just spot spray with a pump sprayer. (I wait about a month before letting animals graze where I've used that spray). Perhaps you could wrap or shield or at least do your best to avoid the lily plants, since it will kill or damage any broad-leaved plant. A word of warning, though, sometimes the crownvetch will resprout the next year in some of the same places, either because some bits of root didn't kill or because it has left a lot of its infernal seeds on and in the ground anywhere it has been growing for very long!

We have a terrible invasive bush here, too, the Autumn Olive. It was actually promoted by the state DNR years a go as a good wildlife habitat plant. Birds certainly love the berries, which is how it gets planted all over beyond where it was intentionally planted. It has an upside that the crownvetch doesn't have: our three goats just love to strip and eat the bark from as many Autumn Olive branches as we want to cut and carry to them. The branches have thorny spurs, but the goats just eat them, too.

Goats have quartz teeth in mouths that are lined with titanium.

**taks** · 07-11-2018, 11:52 AM - **14 Likes**

DA35

D1N0 · 07-11-2018, 12:05 PM - **2 Likes**

Cosina 100mm F3.5 Macro (K-1):

swanlefitte · 07-11-2018, 01:36 PM - **3 Likes**

Took this lens out just to test the bokeh. Sears 80-200 f4 in macro mode.

ChristianRock · 07-11-2018, 02:18 PM - **3 Likes**

Deer bokeh... I wonder how Otis feels about that! Craigs Optics 60-300mm f/4-5.6.

**aslyfox** · 07-11-2018, 02:52 PM - **3 Likes**

Flower bokeh

SOOC

slight crop and pp

K 3 II + Smc PENTAX-DA 35mm F2.8 Macro Limited

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 04:43 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by taks

DA35

Startling! I like it!

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by Aslyfox

Flower bokeh

Very pretty. Nice balance of in & out of focus.

**WPRESTO** · 07-11-2018, 04:47 PM - **6 Likes**

Not sure what this flower is called, not sure I hit the in-focus where I wanted it.

**DW58** · 07-11-2018, 05:38 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by WPRESTO

Not sure what this flower is called, not sure I hit the in-focus where I wanted it.

Regardless. Colors pop and nice bokeh. AND a bit of 3D thrown in for good measure. Nicely done.

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goatsNdonkey Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Fulton County, Illinois Posts: 3,736	Originally posted by WPRESTO Very soft bokeh behind this opening black-eyed Susan (probably). It looks exactly like a new Black-eyed Susan flower opening to me. Rudbeckia hirta -- the term hirta refers to the particular type of hairs that are seen all over the green parts of the plant. Here are some (native) Black-eyed Susans growing with (alien but widely naturalized) Queen Anne's Lace (aka Wild Carrot), Daucus carota, growing in part of my pasture. Sometimes there is a tiny reddish or purplish dot near the center of the Queen Anne's Lace, but I have never seen the pink color in the earlier poster's image. Perhaps there is a horticulturally modified variant growing there. There are some small white asters of some variety in this pic, too. I posted this in another thread recently, but I've forgotten which one.

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goatsNdonkey Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Fulton County, Illinois Posts: 3,736	Originally posted by WPRESTO Crown vetch with a slightly bokehed background. This is a plant that I hate - - *HATE, HATE, HATE* - - It has invaded a nice patch of tiger lilies we have, it's slowly crowding or choking them out, and it utterly impossible to eradicate. And by the way *I HATE THIS PLANT,* but the flowers are kind of pretty. Perhaps the only plant I hate more is Oriental bittersweet. I want all of it deported. There was crownvetch on the dam for our pond, when we bought the place in the early 1980s, and now the danged stuff is all over. It isn't good animal forage, so I have been trying to get rid of it in my pasture. I hate using herbicides, but Bonide Poison Ivy Killer, seems to do a good job of knocking it down, and doesn't kill grassses. Generally I just spot spray with a pump sprayer. (I wait about a month before letting animals graze where I've used that spray). Perhaps you could wrap or shield or at least do your best to avoid the lily plants, since it will kill or damage any broad-leaved plant. A word of warning, though, sometimes the crownvetch will resprout the next year in some of the same places, either because some bits of root didn't kill or because it has left a lot of its infernal seeds on and in the ground anywhere it has been growing for very long! We have a terrible invasive bush here, too, the Autumn Olive. It was actually promoted by the state DNR years a go as a good wildlife habitat plant. Birds certainly love the berries, which is how it gets planted all over beyond where it was intentionally planted. It has an upside that the crownvetch doesn't have: our three goats just love to strip and eat the bark from as many Autumn Olive branches as we want to cut and carry to them. The branches have thorny spurs, but the goats just eat them, too.

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WPRESTO Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Massachusetts Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 59,138	Originally posted by goatsNdonkey There was crownvetch on the dam for our pond, when we bought the place in the early 1980s, and now the danged stuff is all over. It isn't good animal forage, so I have been trying to get rid of it in my pasture. I hate using herbicides, but Bonide Poison Ivy Killer, seems to do a good job of knocking it down, and doesn't kill grassses. Generally I just spot spray with a pump sprayer. (I wait about a month before letting animals graze where I've used that spray). Perhaps you could wrap or shield or at least do your best to avoid the lily plants, since it will kill or damage any broad-leaved plant. A word of warning, though, sometimes the crownvetch will resprout the next year in some of the same places, either because some bits of root didn't kill or because it has left a lot of its infernal seeds on and in the ground anywhere it has been growing for very long! We have a terrible invasive bush here, too, the Autumn Olive. It was actually promoted by the state DNR years a go as a good wildlife habitat plant. Birds certainly love the berries, which is how it gets planted all over beyond where it was intentionally planted. It has an upside that the crownvetch doesn't have: our three goats just love to strip and eat the bark from as many Autumn Olive branches as we want to cut and carry to them. The branches have thorny spurs, but the goats just eat them, too. Goats have quartz teeth in mouths that are lined with titanium.

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WPRESTO Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Massachusetts Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 59,138	Originally posted by taks DA35 Startling! I like it!

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DW58 Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Rural Oregon Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 7,082	Originally posted by WPRESTO Not sure what this flower is called, not sure I hit the in-focus where I wanted it. Regardless. Colors pop and nice bokeh. AND a bit of 3D thrown in for good measure. Nicely done.