CCTjohn
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Sorry for my misunderstanding of the word. I simply thought it was simply taken from a Japanese word meaning "Blur" or "Blurry" Whether it was pleasing or not, I thought was a different matter. Thank you for the clarification.
...the bokeh, of the slightly V-shaped struts really helped create the effect of "looking past" or "peering in" to the mechanism...
Bokeh is a word made up in 1997 by an American photography magazine editor. Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSorry for my misunderstanding of the word. I simply thought it was simply taken from a Japanese word meaning "Blur" or "Blurry" Whether it was pleasing or not, I thought was a different matter. Thank you for the clarification.
The Japanese word boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.
To be "correct" per se, the foreground (whether blurred or not) should draw you in to the subject OR be part of the story/scene (if in focus). You can be creative - sometimes it works, others it does not.
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Here's an example that I think works and received good critique. I blurred the foreground to use both rules here creatively:
Let me at um'! by nola-ron, on Flickr