Bokeh, as in fool? Nay fellow Chexians! What was used in China is not relevant to this digital atmosphere. Instead, when applied to a lens, it refers to the pleasing quality of the out of focus areas of an image produced by the lens.

Such as:
Some people say luck, in my case, probably... since this photo was taken on a really windy day. Now, I do not know if this is the proper technique, but using a high zoom lens, I set the focus to manual and I zoomed in the most i could with the lense while I got the subject into focus, allowing the background to get that nice soft gaussian blur.

Here are some other examples, excuse the incorrect color spaces, those photos will be fixed soon.



The other thing you might notice is that i do this a lot with flowers. I have two caveats to this:

1. You will see that sunflowers will be used a lot in my photos since in my area of South Texas, they grow at a substancial rate.
   
   
2. It is so much easier to do this technique with flowers since they usually stay still.

Some more Flower-iffic examples:





Feel free to leave any comments or techniques you would like to share on how to achieve a similar effect.