Roxanne and I found an awesome art district in Sarasota. This section of town is crawling with cool little shops and restaurants. Add a Lensbaby and you have a recipe for some interesting images. The following image was captured with the Lensbaby Soft Focus optic. In Lightroom I added a vignette. To finalize the image, I opened it in Silver Efex Pro to convert it to black and white.

I saw this mannequin in a shop window. The red feathers intrigued me. I shot the image from below so I could capture the eyes. I tweaked the image in Lightroom and applied the Nik Color Efex Pro Bleach Bypass filter to the image, which made the reds pop.

The splash of vibrant colors from this outdoor cafe caught my eye. I walked around until I found a vantage point I liked and took the picture. In Lightroom I used the HSL/Color/Grayscale tab to increase the luminance of the primary colors to make the image pop.

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