i'm doing some major spring cleaning in my computer today. sorting, organizing, throwing out, renaming, reclaiming disc space... this picture pretty much sums up why my 35mm 1.4 lens is my FAVORITE. so crisp and and sharp, but somehow buttery too... with beautiful bokeh! (for those non photographers of you...) Bokeh (derived from Japanese, a noun boke 暈け, meaning "blur" or "haze") is a photographic term referring to the appearance of point of light sources in an out-of-focus area of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.[1] Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject.