Chasing Picture Perfection- Photo Assignment

I’m playing along in a photo assignment from Stacie at Chasing Picture Perfection. She is calling it an online photo course and every two weeks, a new photo challenge will be posted. We all know how I love a challenge! Stacie offers her blog readers a variety of cool tips and tricks that even a novice like me can understand.

This assignment is to create a photo with shallow depth of field (sharp forefront/subject and blurred background).

Here is what I have come up with. These were taken in the Butterfly Pavillion at the Henry Doorly Zoo.