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 Trying to get caught up in posting!!  For the next 13 days or so you'll notice an over-abundance of Christmas Tree pictures. Some to capture a moment, others to try to perfect the Christmas Tree 'bokeh.'

Just to clarify today, 12/12/13 is actually day 42 so I'm still quite a few days behind in posting.

Basically bokeh is the display of out-of-focus points of light. 

Bokeh is different from sharpness.  Bokeh is what happens apart from the focus point. It also describes the "feel," of out-of-focus areas. Bokeh is the character of the blur. There are debates on how to pronounce it. Being a relative beginner in photography I am probably doing it wrong, but I say it like Bo-ka (like Boca Raton). Help if you can shed light on the exact pronouncation.
  
#38 - darn white balance!! Under harsh lighting conditions with a bright red Elmo. I played quite a while to try and perfect that one. Guess that's the time when custom WB would have been really helpful!!

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