Flowers and a bit of Funk

This post will fit for two challenges namely
Beautiful Sunday By @ace108,
The beautiful Part of the post is flowers, even though I put on the act of being a tattoed thug often I do love the beauty of flowers

and
Sublime Sunday, created by @c0ff33a,
My Take on Sublime and the little funky part is because I did something a bit different with these shots I was playing around with my Lensbaby trio lens taking these shots, the Lensbaby trio has three different lenses built in that give a spot of focus and a blur to the out of focus areas, the three types of blur are Twist, velvet and sweet, and these shots are using one of those settings.
I will say first off before getting to the photos that I took these last week when it was overcast and dreary, and the first time I had used the lens for a long while so the shots are not as good as I should have been able to get but I think they're good enough to share and I will be playing with my new Lensbaby lenses over the coming weeks and hope to get even better shots to share.

Starting with my favorite shot that I got of this little insect on one of the roses, I think this was using the velvet setting

^{Sony A7iii with lensbaby trio 28 lens}
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Next I go with one that the background I have made darker I supect its a shot people will either loveor hate, What do you think or feel about this one?

This was using the twist lens and you can see the twist effect in the background

^{Sony A7iii with lensbaby trio 28 lens}
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This next one looking side on at a rose and I think the sweet portion of the lens and this shot probably got the best bokeh in the background which I was hoping to get in some shots.

Now, these are not all the flower shots I took that day many have been deleted, using this lens it is tricky to see on the screen if you nailed the focus where you want it and I had many other shots that quickly were sent off tot he trash can.

^{Sony A7iii with lensbaby trio 28 lens}
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And another shot using the twist setting and alovely colorful rose

^{Sony A7iii with lensbaby trio 28 lens}
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And one last shot to finish off the post, I was back and forth with myself whether to share this one or send it off with the others to the trash bin

^{Sony A7iii with lensbaby trio 28 lens}
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The lens baby trio I used for these shots is a cool little lens to have fun with but it has a fixed aperture which limits how much control you have with it, but I did have fun doing something different on camera, so I went ahead and bought a Lensbaby Optic kit with three lenses which allow the user to adjust the aperture, which I am just starting too play with and hope to be able to get better shots, they will never be my main lens but will be fun to play with now and again to get something a little different