The charming little hotel where I stayed in Venice had a terrace restaurant where I ate one night. The hotel was the home of the famous composer, Vivaldi, and was on St. Mark's Basin. It was also next to this great canal where one had a view of several bridges.

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'The Composer' is a macro photograph of a passionflower.

Lensbaby Twist 60 Optic 60mm f2.5

Tribute to cellist and composer Pau Casals, sculptor Josep Viladomat (1940)

Captura: Avinguda Pau Casals, Barcelona.

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La idea d'emplaçar un monument dedicat al músic va sorgir amb l'arribada de la democràcia, quan l'alcalde Josep Maria Socías i Humbert va decidir tornar a anomenar l'avinguda dedicada el 1934 al violoncel·lista i compositor al seu nom original, ja que durant la dictadura franquista havia sigut rebatejada com Avinguda del General Goded.

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The idea of placing a monument dedicated to the musician arose with the arrival of democracy in Spain, when the mayor of Barcelona Josep Maria Socías i Humbert decided to return the name of the avenue dedicated in 1934 to the cellist and composer to its original name , since during the Franco dictatorship it had been renamed Avinguda del General Goded.

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Lensaby Composer Pro with Original Double Glass optic no aperture ring, both macro converters (like an extension tube) on the Composer and wrapped some pink tulle around the lens.

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in my garden...

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos,

this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it.

The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it.

I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in

finding myself here.

-Morris West

the view west out the bedroom skylight,

snowy sunset, lensbaby

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A Lensbaby photo taken in the summer of 2024 at the Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa. I had a slight bend ‘up’ on the lens that focused on the red flowers in the back. I did color-pop that high center area and also increased the contrast equalization a bit using a mask in Darktable. I think this was my very first attempt at bending or tilting the lens with the Composer Pro II.

Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F4.0

Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount

No additional macro lens or extension tube used

Developed with Darktable 4.8.0

Back in 1956 hood ornaments like on this 1956 Mercury were not even thought to be a deadly weapon when striking some poor pedestrian. It was all about beauty back them, however, that all changed in the years that followed. As a 15 year old at the time I have fond memories of the Sunday night television show, The Toast Of The Town, aka The Ed Sullivan Show which was sponsored by Lincoln Mercury, and drooling over all the commercials of "the latest models" from Mercury. The following from Wiki is a little history of the show:

From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time, and is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades.

Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts were regularly featured. The format was essentially the same as vaudeville and, although vaudeville had undergone a slow demise for a generation, Sullivan presented many ex-vaudevillians on his show.

Originally co-created and produced by Marlo Lewis, the show was first titled Toast of the Town, but was widely referred to as The Ed Sullivan Show for years before September 25, 1955, when that became its official name. In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.

From 1948 through 1962, the program's primary sponsor was the Lincoln-Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company; Sullivan read many commercials for Mercury vehicles live on the air during this period.

The Ed Sullivan Show was originally broadcast via live television from CBS-TV studio 51, the Maxine Elliott Theatre, at Broadway and 39th St. before moving to its permanent home at CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York City (1697 Broadway, at 53rd Street), which was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater on the occasion of the program's 20th anniversary in June 1968. The last original Sullivan show telecast (#1068) was on March 28, 1971, with guests Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass and Sandler and Young.

Opera composer Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 35) in Bellini Square, Napoli

Lensbaby composer pro/ doubleglass optic.

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A Lensbaby photo presented in B&W of a man and woman crossing an intersection in downtown Nevada, Iowa. I’ve bent the lens to a hard left in this shot, catching the woman mostly in focus with the man starting to blur out-of-focus as the lens effect blurs to the right. In my mind’s eye, the lens effect almost makes it look like the man is going faster than the woman. It was about 7°F (-13°C) when I took this photo, so yes, hurry-up Helen, it’s cold out here!

Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F5.6, hard left bend

Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount

Developed with Darktable 4.8.0

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from my garden...

and seeing these leaves in a dream...

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Lensbaby Composer Pro with Sweet 50 optic at f4 and a +10 macro filter..

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Lensbaby Composer Pro with both macro converters and the Sweet 35 at f4 optic hand held.

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Lensbaby Composer Double Glass Optic. Went out with my heavy winter slippers, coat and PJ's out in the yard to get some photos of the wintery yard.

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The busts of major composers adorn the walls of this salon in the Austrian State Opera House (Staatsoper) in Vienna.

The Austrian State Opera (Staatsoper) is a massive operation that employs over a thousand administrators, workers and performers. During the annual season from early September until mid June, that season's shows are performed on a rotating basis requiring a complete set change everyday since there is a show almost every night. In fact there are often two set changes in a day due to the need for dress rehearsals.

Another from the garden this evening.

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Nikon Z6, 11mm Extension Tube, Lensbaby Composer Pro 2, Sweet 35 Optic,

Exposure X6, Silver Efex Pro 2

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Kalaeloa Deepwater Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii

Dusk off-load of coal from the freighter 'Star of Sawara'.

Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Edge 80 optic.

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