Macro Mondays 5/12/16 theme Arrows

For this theme I choose to use a barometer.I used my Lensbaby composer with a +10 diopter and cut an arrow shape into a blank aperture to give little arrow shaped light points on the surface of the glass and to represent movement of barometric pressure.For lighting I used a set of Xmas lights.

in my garden...

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GUILTY 091 Porto Ercole Fatpack @ACCESS

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Ana Boutique - Piano Seduction 1

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

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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... at Fyvie Castle.The castle grounds are open again, after Storm Arwen and so many subsequent storms. The damage is extensive, with some trails still blocked by fallent trees - and on the main driveway trees have been cut in half and dragged , one half to each side of the road. I guessed it would be a photoshoot primarily of the storm damage, so I took a Lensbaby with me, hoping to catch something more uplifting and colourful. And the Lensbaby never fails to surprise me, and deliver some interesting images.

Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!

and Happy Textural Tuesday too 😊

I was shooting with the oldest Lensbaby optic I have - and the first I acquired, in 2013. It's the Composer Pro 'double glass' optic, with (would you believe it) F-stops set by inserting disks into the optic itself! If you are interested about the Lensbaby and how it works there's more (off Flickr) on my Inedita website. theliddells.com/

More about the Double Glass optic Here

More about the Lensbaby system as a whole Here

A system that is ever growing and developing new optics!

My Tree set: Here

Lensbaby "double-glass": Here

My Fyvie Castle set: Here

Winter through the lens Here

My one and only azalea is doing her thing again this year... after starting life as a twig growing in the wrong place, my husband wanted to toss it... I can't throw anything away that is alive... so I planted it in a half barrel, where it has lived for close to 10 years.... it has transformed into a beauty that sits proudly in our garden!!

Leith Hill Place, Surrey, UK. Once home of composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Patápio Silva

Musician, composer and flutist

Born in Itacoara, October 22, 1880

He died in Florianópolis, 24/April/1907

Located in the creative heart of the Vila, this 94-step staircase is located between Patápio Silva and Medeiros de Albuquerque streets, next to Armazém da Cidade, near Galeria Choque Cultural. It was revitalized with tiles, reminiscent of Rio de Janeiro's colorful Escadaria Selarón, during this year's Design Weekend and was christened Escadaria Patápio in honor of the musician who names the street above.

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Legendary composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits include “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” and “I Say a Little Prayer,” has died. He was 94.

in memory of one of my favorite songs :

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

Raindrops are falling on my head

And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Nothing seems to fit

Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling

So I just did me some talking to the sun

And I said I didn't like the way he got things done

Sleeping on the job

Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling

But there's one thing I know

The blues they send to meet me

Won't defeat me, it won't be long

Till happiness steps up to greet me....

A lovely patch of coneflowers photographed with a Lensbaby Sweet 50 in the summer of 2024 at the Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa.

Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F4.0

Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount

The lens is bent up focusing on the top blooms

Developed with Darktable 4.8.0

Lensbaby composer pro/ doubleglass optic.

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So, let's continue with what I started at the end of last year. Maybe you remember. I showed you a photo of this landscape from Děčín in Bohemian Switzerland and promised to go into the details again later.

The next element in this series would be this impressive building, which can be seen down there under a dramatic winter sky, the Tetschner Castle.

As early as 1128, a fortification was mentioned at this point that served to control shipping traffic on the Elbe (that was almost 1000 years ago, unimaginable). In the 16th century, after various other building projects, the Baroque palace that can be visited today was built.

In the 19th century, the castle gained some fame when the then well-known composer Frédéric Chopin stayed here for five days and even composed a waltz here, which is still known today as the "Tetschner Waltz".

Even though the building looks more like a fortress from a distance, the baroque influence inside is unmistakable. For example, the inner courtyard houses a quite impressive rose garden.

So, dann fahren wir mal damit fort, was ich am Ende des letzten Jahres begonnen hatte. Vielleicht erinnert Ihr Euch. Ich hatte Euch eine Aufnahme dieser Landschaft von Děčín in der Böhmischen Schweiz gezeigt und versprochen, auf die Details später noch einmal einzugehen.

Das nächste Element in dieser Reihe währe dann dieses beeindruckende Gebäude, welches dort unten, unter einem dramatischen Winterhimmel zu sehen ist, das Tetschner Schloss.

Bereits 1128 wird an dieser Stelle eine Befestigung erwähnt die dazu diente den Schiffsverkehr auf der Elbe zu kontrollieren (das ist fast 1000 Jahr her, unvorstellbar). Im 16. Jahrundert entstand dann, nach verschiedenen anderen Baumaßahmen das heute zu besichtigende Barockschloß.

Im 19. Jahrundert erlangte das Schlöß einige Berühmtheit, als der damals schon recht bekannte Komponist Frédéric Chopin für fünf Tage hier verweilte und hier sogar einen Walzer Komponierte, der noch heute als der "Tetschner Walzer" bekannt ist.

Auch wenn das Gebäude von weitem eher wie eine Festung aussieht, so ist der barocke Einfluß im Inneren unverkennbar. So beherbergt der Innehof zum Beispiel einen recht beeindruckenden Rosengarten.

more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de

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Double exposure with Lensbaby sweet 35

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Marian Petrescu Jazz Trio – Symphony No.3 in F, Op.90 (Brahms) 🎧

---- Thanks to Eloy Gonzalo García ----

The Composers Quarter Hamburg is a gathering of six museums in the Peterstraße in Hamburg-Neustadt, Germany. The associated museums have one or two classical composers as a theme who were born or have lived in the city of Hamburg (G.P. Telemann, C.P. Emanuel Bach, J.A. Hasse, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler) The museums are located in restored historical buildings.

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"People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite."

--Felix Mendelssohn--

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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.

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Composers' Quarter (Danish: Komponistkvarteret or Komponistbyen) or Strandvej Quarter (Danish: Strandvejskvarteret), confusingly also known as the Kildevæld Quarter, or the Svanemølle Quarter (Danish: Svanemøllekvarteret), is an enclave of terraced houses located just west of Svanemøllen Station, between Østerbrogade and Kildevækd Park, in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Most of the streets in the area are named after Danish or Nordic composers. The 393 townhouses were originally built by the Workers' Building Society (Danish: Arbejdernes Byggeforening) to provide affordable and healthy housing for working-class families, though latterly they have become very desirable middle-class homes.

History

The name Kildevæld Quarter refers to Kildevækrd, a country house and inn which had been located at the site since the eighteenth century. The house was located at the corner of Kildevækrdsgade and Østerbrogade. The site was acquired by Arbejdernes Byggeforening in the 1890s. The building society had already created a number of similar developments, including Kartoffelrækkerne while Humleby in Vesterbro was still under construction. The architect Frederik Bøttge was charged with designing the buildings. Construction took place between 1892 and 1903.

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Taken with a Lensbaby composer, sweet 50 optic and a 36mm extension tube. Edited with X3.

This beautiful Beaux-Arts building, called Palais Garnier, opened in 1874. Seventy sculptors created bronze busts of famous composers adorning the southern façade plus more gilded statues atop Corinthian columns. The Opera House has something to please any observer. The interior is more impressive.

Grimani Wing is also a part of Ca’Loredan Vendramin Calergi. This was the home of the famous composer Richard Wagner, who died there on 13 February 1883.

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