{"id":4970,"date":"2011-02-04T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2011-02-04T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T19:11:53","slug":"on-photos-and-covetousness-and-social-media-success-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/on-photos-and-covetousness-and-social-media-success-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"On photos and covetousness and social media success stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hile I love my camera and taking pictures, I’m not a huge gear junkie. I’m mostly happy with the four lenses I have, and the small bag of accessories. I have the kit lens, which I use when I know I’ll need a wider angle and for TtV. I have a telephoto zoom, so I can get in close from a distance. I have a 50 mm f1.8 that I wanted because the kit lens only opens up to f4.5 and I’m a fan of a very narrow depth of field, and I have a 35 mm f1.8 because I got a great deal on it second hand and it will autofocus on my D40 while the fiddy will not.<\/p>\n

This is pretty much enough of a lens repertoire for me, with one small exception. I really, really (no, really!) want a Lensbaby <\/a>Composer. You know how I said I like a really shallow depth of field? The Lensbaby line of lenses goes one further than that, giving you a ‘sweet spot’ of focus while distorting rest of the image. The more you stop down, the larger the sweet spot. It produces fun, dreamy images with amazing bokeh.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t yet have a Lensbaby of my own to play with (yet?) I’ve had to borrow some amazing Lensbaby shots from the talented Ms Angela Auclair<\/a> of “From the Dock<\/a>” fame. \ud83d\ude09 Here’s what a Lensbaby can do in the hands of a talented photographer:<\/p>\n

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Aren’t they just breathtaking images? So yes, the Lensbaby and a D90 are the only two things left on the list of gear I covet. <\/p>\n

I like Lensbaby so much that I follow them on Twitter<\/a>. Every now and then they have giveaways, and I was super excited to see earlier this week that they were sponsoring a winter photography contest<\/a> with @plywerk<\/a>, offering a chance to win a Lensbaby Scout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, if you’re Canadian like me, you know what it’s like. Whenever you see a contest or a giveaway, you know you have to go straight to the eligibility rules, and more than half the time you’re out of luck — contest is open to USA residents only. Sigh. It’s tough living under the shadow of the giant who is oblivious to you! I’ve had to pass on more than a few excellent blog promos that were open to US residents only, and you could say I’m a little sensitive to the issue. <\/p>\n

So when I read that the winter photography contest was open only to residents of the 50 United States — seriously, who knows winter photography better than us Canadians?! — I sent a quick reply via Twitter saying that I was disappointed that I couldn’t apply. And guess what? Less than 24 hours later, Lensbaby replied <\/a>to me and said they had reconsidered, and the contest is now open to everyone. <\/p>\n

How awesome is that? I’m so chuffed that Lensbaby and Plywerk opened up their contest that I thought they deserved props for it here. I love it when companies actually *listen*!!<\/p>\n

So now I have to choose a winter photograph to submit. Oh the angst! And by the way, none of you talented photographers out there are allowed to submit an entry to this contest — I can’t stand the competition!! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Edited to add: awwww, and lookit <\/a>Angela’s reply. It’s a bloggy love-fest! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I love my camera and taking pictures, I’m not a huge gear junkie. I’m mostly happy with the four lenses I have, and the small bag of accessories. I have the kit lens, which I use when I know I’ll need a wider angle and for TtV. I have a telephoto zoom, so I … Continue reading “On photos and covetousness and social media success stories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}