I pulled out the macro lens again today. I like the effect you can get of a super shallow depth. There is just a very narrow band and everything in front or behind it starts to blur. The green centers of the blooms is what I was interested in so the petals on the bigger flowers that get closer to the lens or farther away start to just fade into each other.
Sometimes when you focus really closely on something, everything around it starts to fade away. That can be a good thing when you need to concentrate, but if it becomes the norm, life gets thrown out of focus and things get blurry.