Hey Bokeh buddies!
I wanted to post a few shots that are not so much examples of great bokeh, but are rather examples of results you can get with what you could consider "unorthodox" gear.
I was out shooting a couple days ago with the 1DM3 with the 100-400 lens and a 1.4x TC, mounted on a monopod, and ended up in the woods where I found very few birds and such, but quite a few Spring forest flowers.
Now, I also had my 5D with a shorter lens, and I could have hiked back and gotten my tripod and a macro lens, and taken "real" flower shots with "real" bokeh, but I decided "what the heck" and determined to take "silly" flower shots with my birding gear.
Try to picture a heavy rig and you're pointing it down toward a flower and leaning over into the viewfinder and trying to hold it steady, but your position is awkward and at f/11 your shutter speed is slow and your weaving back and forth trying to steady yourself to get a shot...that's what it was like in the dim light of the woods.
But, I got some shots that did not suck, and I'm sharing here because, at MFD, f/11, over 500 mm, I also got some shots with the makings of bokeh! Pretty crazy!
This one was much farther and had to be closely cropped, and is in fact a bird
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, but then I thought, no, there is something wrong with the perspective, so I checked the exif - ok, ok 
