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Count me in!!

Already submitted an image…. tres blurry! Thanks for letting us know about this!

great work in scoring such an awesome prize for this challenge! I’m in!

♥ Wonderful !! :D ♥

Count me in, and thanks for the opportunity!

This looks very nice and since I m a painter, I hope some time there will be somehting fun like this for painters

awesomesauce

I can take blurry pictures – oh, you mean good blurry pictures

For sure will be there – Thanks

Why are we seeing non lensbaby shots in the entries????

i’ll give it shot!

Kudos to both RB and Lensbabies to come together, the composer is an awesome lens! Good luck everyone!!!

ooopps, silly me for not reading EVERYTHING!!

That’s just terrific news. A great opportunity for those who don’t already have a Lensbaby, but want one.

Sounds great. Best of luck to all the entrants.

Sounds wonderful!!!

Oh that looks wicked!!! I’d love one of those. Of course, I’d have a hell of a time trying to attach it to my little point-and-shoot….. :))) Good luck to everyone entering!!!

ready for race !!!

Wow!

i luv blury pictures!

I’ll have a go :)

This is so exciting – thanks RB and Lensbaby for a great challenge :)

I am definately in… this is fantastic!!! ]
thanks to lensbaby!

Wonderful opportunity! Thanks RB and Lensbaby! :)

I’m in there somewhere.

Ooh, yeah – how exciting!!

Sounds like something to give a go…fun!

Great comp RB, look forward to trying something out!

Andy

I’m in … would LOVE a Lensbaby!! Thanks for the opportunity, great fun!

I’m in. Thanx LensBaby.

Cool, I’ll give it a try! Thankyou for the opportunity. :0)

Wonderfoul news, sounds great…i am in

As an “Old-Timer” I’d like to let you know that a smear from a small jar of vaseline applied to a neutral lens filter over your lens will do the same job – maybe even with a more unique and creative effect?

The above vaseline suggestion, works well I used on my old 35 mm camera !

OOOO, I will have a go, thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxx

If you do try this then remember that the area you leave untouched will be the hard focus area -the thicker the coat of vaseline applied then the greater the blurring. Also a swirl of the finger to thin the vaseline will generally sharpen the image in that area although there will still be varied effects within that area. Almost like being a painter rather than relying on a consistent mechanical effect?

Beaut idea, and good luck in securing more sponsors .

great idea for a competition. right up my street!

Oooooh… thats exciting!!

There’s close to 600 photos submitted in just a couple days! Maybe this would be a good time to try out another voting system (other than viewing/voting on one at a time). Imagine how many pics there will be to go through in another 19 days!

The other,images so far are wonderful, here goes my first shot (oops, terrible pun) entering into any photography competition. Be gentle

If you have a Nikon D40, D40x, D5000 or any camera that doesn’t have the lens motor built into the camera a 50mm f1.8 lens is great to use to make these type of shots, I ended up doing it for almost two years.

looks like some good fun…... i so want a lensbaby its so cute lol

I’m up for it!

Just read that Cannon has come out with their own version of this. Interesting.

I’d like to give it a try, I don’t find it hard to blurr my shots! happens all the time,drat!when I want a nice clear shot..oh well, I’ll give it a SHOT!! :o)) God Bless,Mae

sure…I’d love to try.. read so much about the lensbaby

Well here goes certainly worth a go

I used lensbaby and for every photographer it is good to have photos with this one. nice

I’m in. Onya guys-good fun.

count me in plz. thanks

Whoa…......what a cool device that is!
I read this right away when it was posted and spent a day trying:
(1) to find a Lensbaby to “play with” locally (no luck).
(2) to make one by shooting through various items (old glass vases and the like).
(3) to quench my thirst for the effect(s) by shooting through the viewfinder of my old Pentax ME Super.

LOL…had a ton of fun, took some bizarre but interesting shots. And then I whooooooshed around RedBubble and the web, looking at Lensbaby pix and Lensbaby-like pix, too.

I’m smitten.

But it’s taken me a couple of days to understand why. I think it’s because I’ve been so incredibly myopic my entire life. Without my glasses I see the world this way, in VERY tight areas of clarity surrounded by unraveling blurs. Looking at these images is like seeing my way.

Anyway, I really appreciate your posting this info. It opened my eyes in more ways than one.

GREAT IDEA!

cool competition. im in

How wonderful!!!
I dream of that lens since…a long time!
This is a very cool contest.

Perfect timing – I love the lens baby.

Sounds fantastic. I just read about these lens for the first time and I am completely sold. Where do I sign in?

OK, so I took a financial leap-of-faith and my Lensbaby (with Optical Kit) arrived yesterday. I’m still checking it out, reading the instructions, fiddling with my camera so I can start taking super pix. It’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!

Now all I have to do is pay for it…LOL…I’ve earned $53 here in approximately 15 months. The Lensbaby gear cost just shy of $400, so assuming I continue to earn at this pace (which is a huge assumption, I know) I’ll have it paid for in 105 months!

Uh….

...that’s only 8.75 years!

Bwahah!

Seriously, thank you for the info. I’m really happy to have the Lensbaby and I’m going to spend the next week or so getting acquainted with it!

i just read about this and the last work i posted fits this perfectly.
that is too weird and freaky, LOL are we on the same λ or what. hehe
great stuff. ;-) xox