Lens-Artists PC: Shapeshifting in style

This is my favourite kind of posts: a compilation of shapes and styles from here, Italy, and there, Slovenia. No wonder I couldn’t stop before I hit 30 photos.

I did my best to pair my photos in a way to create some sort of structure, while marvelling at Patti who was able to select just a few representative photos for her Lens-Artists photo challenge post, including a lego portrait. I just can’t. Over here it’s always a flood.

But this is what I do anyway, daily: select forms, shapes, styles and patterns for you to enjoy and transport you over and we can all pretend that you’re here. Welcome!

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  A look down. Giardino del Tarocchi, by Niki de Saint Phalle.

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  A look up. A cross on top of Monte Amiata, not entirely dissimilar to the Eiffel Tower.

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  Trees in the flooded Lake Podpeč one December years ago.

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  This summer in Ljubljana.

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  An old favourite. The flying carpet of Monticiano.

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  This is the style of Rome. You hang out your bedding and create a masterpiece.

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  The (Etruscan?) beasts of Pitigliano in Tuscany.

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  The beasts at Orle above Ljubljana.

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  Nude art of Ostia Antica. Really old.

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  Nude art of Lucija on the Slovenian coast. Mom looks interested.

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  New shopping centre Aleja in Ljubljana with a pump track. Father has new shoes.

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  An old window of Santa Fiora in Tuscany.

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  The eucalyptus pattern right here.

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  Self-styled in Val d’Elsa.

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  The tenderness of a larch in my childhood hood. Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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  My Tuscany now. Actually in June 2018.

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  A strange bush near Izola on the Slovenian coast this summer.

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  By the Ljubljanica river.

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  Four architectural styles of Ljubljana. A new growth as of this summer.

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  Vurnik House reflected in a hairdresser’s salon. Miklošičeva St.

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  Behind World Trade Centre in Ljubljana. “Atom Venus” by Janez Boljka.

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  The Delo newspaper building, called “Black Widow”. Once at the top, now in demise like newspapers everywhere.

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  Tuscany again. In the Capalbio tower I found this surprisingly gorgeous setting with Puccini’s piano.

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  Giardino Viaggio di Ritorno, “The Garden of Return Journey”, with art by Rodolfo Lacquaniti.

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  Two glimpses of a fancy hotel in Portorož on the Slovenian coast.

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  I didn’t dare to enter.

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  Piran is nearby, down to earth and much preferable.

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  Whereas here in Tuscany this is the growth around the corner that I pass daily.

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  An eatery in the hills of Sabina. The waiter greeted me by saying that my shirt matched their table-cloth.

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  Just a square but Italians do it better. Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti at P. A. Moed: Shapes and Designs

This day in my blogging history

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  2014: FeMaleficent

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  2015: Because Judy collects hearts just like my mother does

• 2016: See what Janis did to this Tommy the Cat

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  2017: Thursday Doors from Siena – Until I see you again

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  2018: Memento mori post with The Final Poem by Tone Pavček
  Translated by Manja Maksimovič:

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  How neat are Slovenians as we go,
  our search for perfection drains the cup,
  in dying persistent and far from slow,
  we perish before our time is up.

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  Moreover, our death has Slovenian flair:
  by fire or water, poison or gas,
  it’s all such a grave and solemn affair,
  as if country or god were calling express.

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  One day, maybe soon, we’ll go to the last,
  but before we can rot and turn into pus,
  new names will be given to everything fast,
  while death will be named after us…