Looking around for something to shoot

[L David Tomei]

I'm a long way from the streets of New York now. A photographer must always look around through the eye of a camera and try to see things in a different way, what common, banal things can make good images.
Recently, I have become almost obsessed with the out-of-focus, the blurred images, the "bokeh". I now have several hundred images that, to me, are colors and patterns and depth, but I'm not sure how others view these images.

I don't crop the final image but I do adjust the contrast usually with the "auto contrast". I can't account for the color. It's whatever I get.

I'd like to invite comments on these images many of which are in my Album "Spring Bokeh" (http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=8658

Here are a couple from the album:

 

[semrich]

The last photo really does it for me, it just stand out better with the color and composition.

 

[L David Tomei]

Composition becomes an interesting problem for me in these shots. When I shoot, I have the lens set at minimum focal distance wide open so in order to focus, I literally move about, to and fro, while I try to balance the blurred background and foreground. Of course, the flying water droplets in the shots of olive branches with white globes, turns out to 10% timing and 90% luck.