Ambrosia Clark and I are in a very tight photography race. If you heart “Santa Baby,” click on the button below to vote for me. Voting will be open until tomorrow at noon (EST) and I think you can vote once per day. I promise…after this contest, I’ll do my very best not to ask for another thing for the rest of 2010…and I’ll have a giveaway in 2011…or a contest? You name it! Merry

The holidays have brought out the very best in bokeh all over the blogosphere.  Wikipedia defines bokeh (pronounced /boʊˈkeɪ/) as the blur,or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—”good” and “bad” bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie...