A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 This may be a crazy idea but Jørgen's recent 'Local Time' posts got me thinking. About 25 years ago my son appeared in a local 'Day in the Life'photo essay for my community. The project captured my community from the perspective of hundreds of photographers and covered a 24 hours period from Midnight to 11:59 pm. The entire project was eventually made into a book. Looking back now, it is wonderful snapshot of life back then. How about a 'Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User' Team project? We agree on a day and anyone who is interested submit one photo (their best)from that given day. It's kind of like the Forum LB Speed Challenge but with no particular theme other than the day. Day, night, at work, from home, intentional art, moment of life, street, sleep, window... just a day where we, as a group, chose to work on one thing for each other. Thoughts? Or should I slink back to my digital darkroom and plan my next stage in world domination? Anyway, I am Outback working on it... Edit- More descriptive title http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,152322#msg-152322 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:51:27 -0700 Phorum 5.2.8 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155809#msg-155809 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155809#msg-155809 Aaron92 General Discussion Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:18:21 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155236#msg-155236 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155236#msg-155236 glojo1 General Discussion Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:12:22 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155206#msg-155206 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155206#msg-155206 Digitalis General Discussion Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:02:04 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155191#msg-155191 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155191#msg-155191 No. 2,3,4 are great!]]> hp General Discussion Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:29:23 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155189#msg-155189 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155189#msg-155189 TG-J General Discussion Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:00:02 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155183#msg-155183 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155183#msg-155183
Many of us must be around the same age. We seem to have the same background issues that we don't talk about.

It's interesting how we are bound to one another by life and share it through our photography. I am greatful that we had our Day in the Life together.

jd]]> Outback General Discussion Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:15:15 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155179#msg-155179 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155179#msg-155179
Thank you for your meaningful post... I love the last image the most...
Cindi]]> CMH General Discussion Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:35 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155175#msg-155175 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155175#msg-155175
November 11th, 2011 was a hectic and emotionally divided day for me...

Some of you may remember Mr. Thumb, the "little friend" that I inadvertently created a couple of years ago. Well, on the afternoon of November 10, 2011, my wife decided it would be great fun to create a little friend of her own.....by removing part of HER thumb with a chef's knife...the day before we were catering a wedding. After making sure that she wasn't going to bleed to death or pass out, I said to her "WHAT the #*$% were you thinking!?! We have a Wedding tomorrow!!!!", the exact words she said to me (before checking to make sure that I wasn't going to bleed to death or pass out, I might add...) two years ago when I "decided" to create Mr. Thumb.

I'm not saying that I was waiting for this moment to arrive, but I will say that I gladly seized this moment with all ten digits.

And so we have:

1) 8:26am, Mrs. Thumb says, "Yumb, donuts!"

Now you may be asking yourself, "What is Mrs. Thumb doing with all those donuts? Didn't you say you were catering a wedding?".

Well, it turns out that the bride and groom are both freaks for the tasty toroidal treats and had asked the wife to make a wedding cake out of.....um.....donuts. If anyone could make a thing of true beauty out of so pedestrian a product, it would be Mrs. Thumb, aka Mrs. Crabcakes, aka my lovely wife (she once made a wedding cake out of Twinkies, no kidding). And so it was that on the eve of the blessed event, we were presented with 132 donuts for to make a wedding cake.

2) 8:56am, Magpie (Maggie, our daughter) says, "Oh, Chocolate Donut Hole, how do I love thee?"

3) 10:16am, the wedding-cake-topper-bride says, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine...including that Donut!!"

It was not by any means a shotgun wedding, the bride and groom having been together for many years, but let's just say it was a modern wedding, the traditional order having been changed a bit by blessing the earth with their child before the nuptials...

4) 12:07pm, the happy baby.

5) 12:46pm, the happy couple.

6) 1:02pm, the harpist's hands. She played beautifully.

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For many in the west, November 11th is a day to remember our men and women of service, lost to the violence of war. In Great Britain, Austalia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Commonwealth Nations it is known as Remembrance Day. In the United States it is known as Veterans Day. Originally a day to remember soldiers lost during World War One, the so-called "War to end all wars", in the United States it has become a day to remember and honor service veterans no matter the conflict or cause or time of death.

When I was younger, for a time, I was very anti-war; anti-government--well very idealistic, rebellious and just...Anti-. And while I still feel, as many in this country do, that I love my country, but fear my government, I never questioned the value of my father's service. I hope that I have learned a few lessons and learned a little respect for those who may have been involved in a conflict even if I might have had issues with the causes or outcome of that conflict. I try to thank every veteran that I meet.

My father was a veteran of two wars (WWII and Korea) and died from complications from Alzheimer's disease on May 31st/June 1st 2010. I felt it was time to visit his grave as I have not been since before his death. He and my mother are buried together at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery outside of Saint Louis, Missouri and I had not visited the site since shortly after my mother passed in 2006 (being the wife of a veteran, she was buried there before him).

It's been a rough few years.

After so long, hurrying to get there before the sun set and having left home without a map or the grave designation number, I spent the better part of an hour driving around and not finding the grave-site. Having given up and consigned myself to taking a few pictures of the cemetery and going home, I finally found a landmark on my way out that I recognized.
But it was too late.
The sun was set.
The light was leaving.
The graves became white ghosts in the twilight.

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My apologies for the lengthiness of this post but I found no other way to convey my complicated feelings on this day. If you bother to read it all, I thank you for your patience.

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Many thanks to Outback--what an awesome project-idea.

Many thanks to the whole LB team for giving us the Lensbaby.

Many thanks to everyone who participated--some wonderful images--a great slice of the life of the Lensbaby.]]> Crabcakes General Discussion Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:54:13 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155126#msg-155126 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155126#msg-155126

CMH: Please check your Studio Space - PM sent.]]> Outback General Discussion Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:02:28 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155123#msg-155123 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155123#msg-155123 glojo1 General Discussion Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:23:41 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155119#msg-155119 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155119#msg-155119
November 11, 2011 was pretty much like any work day for me, starting at about 3:45 am.

*Images #1 and #2 - 4 am - my work process with an assembly line style of cutting patterns and then sewing

*Image #3 -6:14 am - the sun rise begins behind my house

*Image #4 - 7:14 am - my Christmas cactus that inevitably blooms around Thanksgiving each year

*Image #5 - 8:10 am - my birthday was three days prior (November 8) and this is a shot from the bouquet of flowers sent by my son and his wife.

*Image #6 - 4:33 pm - preparing to tag my Wee Ones for delivery to a gallery in Denver the next day

*Image #7 - 4:35 pm- the sun setting over the Rocky Mountains (as seen from my studio)

*Image #8 - 4:41 pm - a drink with Roxy the Raccoon while going over some administrative work at my computer

*Image #9 - 7:05 pm - a snuggle with my 18.5 year old cat, A-choo, before heading back to my computer

I purchased my first Lensbaby (the LB 2.0) sometime in 2005 or 2006 and have been absolutely hooked ever since. I followed that purchase with a Lensbaby Original (LB0) as well as telephoto and wide angle adaptors and macro filters . When the new generation of lenses came out I added the muse and composer and all the optics to my collection. So, yeah, I'm a true believer. :)

All these images were shot with my LB 2.0 - still my favorite of them all. :)]]> CMH General Discussion Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:12:02 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155030#msg-155030 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,155030#msg-155030 raystevfl General Discussion Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:40:55 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154490#msg-154490 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154490#msg-154490 Great images love #5
REgards Malcolm]]> hebphoto General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:16:50 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154481#msg-154481 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154481#msg-154481 wsphotodesign General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:18:49 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154470#msg-154470 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154470#msg-154470 francesco]]> francesco General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:20:18 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154459#msg-154459 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154459#msg-154459 I went outside Copenhagen, looking for some light, and I did find some light!
Here are some of my favorites, photographed between 11:56 and 14:35 local time.
Composer and Plastic Optic.]]> jffoto General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:39:30 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154458#msg-154458 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154458#msg-154458
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wsphotodesign
I photographed at the Denver Zoo between 3:30 and 4:30 pm. Minimal retouching - just took out a few reflections and adjusted the colors to my liking...these are some of my favorites.

Composer Pro with Sweet 35

Whoa, I love your first picture, it's just perfect to me!]]> Digitalis General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:59:30 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154451#msg-154451 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154451#msg-154451
I agree with all of you that this is an fantastic way of sharing and getting new friends around the world :-) and all this because of our passion for photo and LB.

Take care
Marie]]> MarieJ General Discussion Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:10:52 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154447#msg-154447 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154447#msg-154447 Lucinity General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:17:14 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154446#msg-154446 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154446#msg-154446 Great images well done
REgards Malcolm]]> hebphoto General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:51:01 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154445#msg-154445 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154445#msg-154445 Love your set of images
Regards Malcolm]]> hebphoto General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:48:39 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154444#msg-154444 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154444#msg-154444 glojo1 General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:39:26 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154443#msg-154443 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154443#msg-154443 glojo1 General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:36:18 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154438#msg-154438 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154438#msg-154438 Outback General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:34:05 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154437#msg-154437 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154437#msg-154437
Love the garlic, duh_vinci!]]> wsphotodesign General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:49:28 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154435#msg-154435 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154435#msg-154435
Composer Pro with Sweet 35]]> wsphotodesign General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:57:30 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154434#msg-154434 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154434#msg-154434
Nice pictures. Really like the feeling in #5

/parne]]> parne General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:20:54 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154433#msg-154433 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154433#msg-154433
Here is my pics from 111111. For some reason its 11.

Right now we are trying too help mother nature to make winter here in the north of Sweden. The work is wet and cold and not good to camera equipment. I dared not carry the camera during work, but stayed a while after quitting my shift and went around to try to catch the feeling of (manmade) winter coming.

The crew pics are Sweet35 in Composer Pro and the rest is Scout whith Fisheye, most of them bracketted 5 exp and run trough HDRefex Pro.

Great idea whith 111111. Will we do 121212 next year?]]> parne General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:16:06 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154432#msg-154432 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154432#msg-154432 DMacDzigns General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:33:48 -0800 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154429#msg-154429 Re: A Day in the Life of the Lensbaby User - DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011 http://lensbaby.com/forum/read.php?1,152322,154429#msg-154429 I think the LB team may be proud of our work. :)
May I suggest that a photo gallery may be set up here on the site collecting all, or almost all, the pictures of this thread?

In any case, back to mine 111111.
I took a day off from work and as soon as my wife discovered it I had in my hand a list of "things to do" that occupied me till noon. :P
Except the first four pics, the set goes from noon to about 5PM. In these 5 hours have walked in the streets of Milano, shooting everything caught my eye (only 115 pictures...).
It has been really funny walking like a tourist in "my" town during a working day, and the day was beautifully sunny, despite the cloudy morning.

all the pictures were taken with the Composer and Double Glass (my favourite optic) with 2.8 aperture ring.

thanks for looking and hope you'll enjoy them.

francesco]]> francesco General Discussion Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:54:56 -0800