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In the dry lands of the Urgell region, water is already a scarce commodity, but it is even more so in times of drought, like this year in Catalonia.
For this reason, every drop counts and, when they are seen, they even show us their most artistic side thanks to the bokeh technique, as in this report in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos.
The anglicism bokeh, from the Japanese boke, is a concept that means blur. In photography it is used to refer to the subjective quality of a lens due to the aesthetics of the out-of-focus areas it produces in an image, as we can see in this series of snapshots where the water drops in this field in El Tarròs look like artistic spirals.
But, not only the drops are the protagonists of this report, but also other minimalist elements of the crop field that could go unnoticed, but that, thanks to the focus, acquire the foreground, that is, the prominence.
Bokeh can be understood as an image in which the main element is the only thing that appears in focus and the rest of the elements disappear, completely out of focus.
