Tear Drop
by smokeditor

Comment:
beautiful picture but the BG is just a neutral to the subject, no real bokeh-sense or artefacts here.

Into the Light
by artvet

Comment:
striking as hell. at first I thought it was fairly un-bokeh, but I'm bumping it back up.

Lightscape
by tomtitus

Comment:
striking image but it doesn't really play to the challenge for me, because it is not relating a sharp subject to an oof BG in any way.

Finally Over!!!
by RayEthier

Comment:
very striking. I wish santa were in better focus though...

Daisies
by BooZon

Comment:
Very mute bokeh. appealing image but it has some luminance problems to my eye; I'd want the subject daisy to pop out from the others, ideally.

Untitled Bokeh
by Rook3000

Comment:
It's a fairly striking image, but it's like the bokeh are taking over the picture, for me. The two sides don't seem to be working together all that well.

Reaching For The Rain
by ahaze

Comment:
Fascinating bokeh. Composition feels too cramped lower right to me. Give it a hair more breathing space on the right, especially, is my opinion.

Peek-A-Boo!
by Arcy

Comment:
Adorable puppy, cute pic, sense of bokeh int he far BG, but the birdbath (?) separates the bokeh from the subject and makes it less effectiuve as a relationship between the 2 layers, which is what I am looking for.

Dormant Dandilion
by crabappl3

Comment:
Not a lot of bokeh to this, just a cluster of them near the bottom. Strange, eerie colors. Effective frame. As an aside, I'd question whether this dandelion is really "dormant", but that's neither here nor there. Nicely composed and lit.

You've got stars in your eyes...
by tyrkinn

Comment:
Here's the way I see it; "bokeh", technically, is an out-of-focus artefact created by spherical lens distortions. Artistically, it's a concept of interplay between out-of-focus and sharp-focus elements in a composition.

For me, your image does not meet the terms of the challenge especially well, because everything in it is realtively sharp, and there's no subject/ground interaction at all.