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Category Archives: Lensbaby Play

My lensbaby has been on my camera a lot this month, including for my portraits blog circle where Emily and I played with a little green mask to capture sunflare and backlighting, and then again on my not-so-little girl’s 14th birthday. But one day this month my friend and I sneaked off to Capitola and […]

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We found this mask that we totally loved at a little shop in Solvang last summer, and I haven’t quite known what to do with it so it’s been sitting in my “to shoot” pile ever since. But you know how we love masks, so we had to find something! While I was brainstorming the […]

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Every year since her first birthday, Emily has woken up to balloons on her bed—one balloon for every year. It’s getting more crowded every birthday, of course, but still Tom and I have fun doing it late in the night each April 29th (or 30th!)! But this year in particular (maybe because I’m all too […]

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My first Through the Lensbaby Blog Circle post, and I am so excited! Since I am determined to master my Lensbaby, I decided for two days of our trip to Disneyland to use ONLY the Lensbaby. I chose the Sweet 35 optic so I could more easily change the aperture on the fly, and then […]

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I am working really hard to learn how to master the Lensbaby. The look it gives is so soft and dreamy, so I just love it! And it forces me to slow down and really focus on my shooting, which is a good thing. This time I played with the macro attachment on the Double […]

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As with most holidays, Halloween in our house is full of traditions… The month starts out with a trip to JoAnn Fabrics to pick out a pattern for Emily’s costume, which she insists I make each year. This year I was lucky and she picked an easy one—the accessories were crucial and mostly covered up […]

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I finally got to borrow a lensbaby, and I AM IN LOVE!!!!!! I will definitely be getting one of these in the not-too-distant future. I borrowed an original lensbaby, so it works like a bellows, almost, where you kind of curl it toward the direction in the image where you want the sharp area to […]

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