Not long after I got my first DSLR, I read an article in a photography magazine about defocused photography, and decided to give it a whirl on one of my next outings. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, which is one of the nice things about having room on a memory card for lots of shots that aren’t very good. But this was a keeper that ended up on a canvas print that still hangs on one of my walls.

April 22, 2010. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 105mm Nikon macro lens (35mm equivalent: 155mm), f/5, 1/1,000, ISO 200.