👨‍💻 ASEAN Hive Community Challenge #162 📷 Beautiful Bokeh 🤳 Entry : Embracing Nature’s Bokeh 💚☺️

Hello everyone!

Hope all are safe and well!

I’m excited to join again #aseanhivechallenge and happy to share my entry for the 👨‍💻 ASEAN Hive Community Challenge #162 📷 Beautiful Bokeh 🤳. ☺️

This theme couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. I grabbed my android Xiaomi smartphone and use camera in a portrait setting. I wanted to capture how ordinary moments can be beautifully transformed with the magic of shallow depth of field, where the main subject shines and everything else fades into a dreamy blur.

Ripe Calamansi in the Spotlight

My first shot features a perfectly ripened calamansi. It looks almost like a miniature orange, glowing against a softly blurred backdrop. The garden behind it melts into soft greens and hints of two figures quietly chatting. The bokeh gently frames the calamansi, making it feel like the real star of the show, while reminding me of the everyday magic in simple things, a humble fruit, a quiet garden moment, a connection unseen but felt.

A Snail’s Slow Adventure

My second shot is a photo of a snail inching along a water hose. I focused tightly on its shell and body, letting the natural garden hues blur behind it. In that blur, the garden seems alive and moving, yet the snail maintains its steady pace, almost meditative. That slow moving creature in a fast paced world, bokeh turns it into a moment of calm contemplation.

Selfie with My Niece: Trees in the Mist

Then, came one of my favorite captures, a selfie with my niece. We struck a joyful pose, with tall trees softly melting into the background. The trees outlines accentuate our smiles and connection. It’s playful, candid, and filled with the unfiltered affection only a niece can inspire.

Under the Miracle Fruit Tree

Finally, another selfie moment with my niece. This time beneath an abundant miracle fruit tree. The fruits hang like jewels, softly glowing in the blurred background. The miracle fruit has a story of its own, but captured this way, it simply whispers abundance and innocence around us.

Through these images, the beauty of bokeh helped me highlight moments I might have otherwise missed. A simple calamansi, a snail’s journey, a shared laugh with my niece, each one becomes more intimate and vibrant with a softly blurred scene behind it. It feels like life slowed down just enough for me to appreciate what’s right in front of me.

Photography is more than capturing scenes, it’s about embracing moments. Bokeh reminds me that what we choose to focus on matters and the rest can soften into background beauty.

Thank you for reading and for checking my entry for ASEAN Hive Challenge #162! I’m so grateful for this creative theme. It made me see the garden, my moments, and my loved ones in a new light.

Get well soon to your step‑dad
sir @justinparke ! 💚🙏🙏

Have a Blessed Monday everyone! 😀😀😀💖💖💖

Thank You Lord for the blessings and love!

Be grateful in every little/simple things and you’ll find happiness you ever wanted! 😀😀😀

Everyday is worth to be grateful of!

Praying for the safety and wellness of all.

Heal Our Land Oh God!

Lovelots,
@shikika