Yes Charline, I see what you are saying. Achieving a complimentary bokeh is wonderful when it happens and shooting from an elevated station, like the brink of a cliff, or bluff, is a great way to facilitate that outcome. The nearest leaf-laden tree was sufficiently far behind the isolated perch to be rendered as diffused blotches of colour. Instead of shooting away from the lake and into a ravine is a great way of making it happen. Shooting toward the lake onto an isolated perch removes all riot of colour completely, as happened with the Blue-winged warbler shot, or having a yellow-green field behind a fence perch generates a uniform swath of colour much like a blanket backdrop as with the mating swallows. The problem is how infrequently one gets an isolated perch shot to begin with. I guess that it explains the love of birds-in-flight shots that a mirrorless camera with eye-tracking can make possible. Any background would either be uniform sky or blurred verdure. Just need to be careful with that rolling shutter distortion when using the high-speed electronic shutter. I don't have that problem because I'm hopelessly out-of-date. I'm sure that I still have some "to do" lists written in fountain pen. I can still feel those waxy-plastic cartridges in my fingers ... how's that for muscle-memory? I also remember those pens with the suction lever so that you could reload from a bottle and always gets the tip of your finger ink stained. I wonder how many people still have a ball point pen, now that everything gets entered into a cell? Now-a-days, a pen is short for peninsula, like Pen B at Tommy Thompson Park.
