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<p class="gutenify-section-8e338550-ab18-11ee-9a49-039b1a268bc5">For Christmas, my wife and I went to Ohio, to visit my daughter and her husband and her five children. It was a great time. We celebrated the Nativity with her church, and ate really well (as usual for most of us, I think, <em>too </em>well). While there, I got a few good images of the landscape, and put them through Filter Forge to get some artistic effects.  Here are the results.</p>
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<p class="gutenify-section-9e4a8f90-ab1a-11ee-ae7c-bb9cb182006f">After Christmas, we traveled to Linthicum, Maryland (near Baltimore), to stay with my oldest daughter, her husband (an Orthodox priest), and their 9 children. Again, we had a great time, and the food was more than satisfying. (Now we have to get the sugary stuff out of our diets.) While there, I used the Lensbaby Spark lens to capture the kids, and my wife and my daughter talking. I was very pleased with the results.  These are two of my granddaughters.</p>
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<p class="gutenify-section-a2d3ae40-ab27-11ee-ae7c-bb9cb182006f">My wife and my daughter became engaged in conversation. I saw my opportunity to create something. The Spark lens can be manipulated to put the focus where you want, to a large extent. The black-and-white, toned treatment made for a more striking set of images, with some development. </p>
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<p class="gutenify-section-36abbbd0-ab28-11ee-ae7c-bb9cb182006f">I will continue to explore the possibilities with different lenses, different lighting set-ups, different post-processing treatments, and even photo manipulation, to create something that moves the viewer, I hope, even when he or she does not know why.</p>
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