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Fine art photography by Amy Shutt of a black and white image bunny looking back across the forest grass with trees in the background.
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Pull Back the Curtain: Adventure with Amy Shutt

The path to the photography you want to express, the path to your visual voice, is anything but linear. Youre influenced by your environment, your skills, your tools, your time, your personal passi...

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Explore the Spectrum: Infrared Photography with Dan Wampler

Dan Wampler is frequently asked why he is a photographer. His response is always the same: Dan Wampler with Twist 60“Because I can’t paint! If I could paint I would never go anywhere, I would stay...

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Embrace the Spectrum: Infrared Photography with Laurie Klein

Laurie Klein is a pioneer in the field of infrared and fine art photography with over 40 years of industry experience. She combines technical expertise with a strong passion, a need, to share her v...

The Art of Adrenaline

The thrill of adventure, the endless possibilities of travel, the joy of experience...the Lensbaby photographer finds inspiration in these moments.Lucia Griggi and Boone Speed know exactly how that...

11 Years of Lensbaby Magic! Guest Post by Kathleen Clemons

Kathleen Clemons with Composer Pro Sweet 5011 years ago today, I opened the box of my new Lensbaby 2.0, and started to see the world in a new way. Though my first images were far from perfect, th...

5 Tips from the Pros on Starting a Photography Business

You’re restless in your office cubicle, or maybe the number of friends’ compliments on your photos is increasing, or perhaps you’re just ready to dive in and do what you love for a living. Before y...

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Under the Sea

Art cannot be created without dedication, passion, and unique vision. A true artist evolves a feeling into a concept and that concept into reality, never giving up on breathing their soul into thei...

Exploiting angles to sensationalize the natural world

In nature, first looks have a way of fooling the eye.If you don’t study it closely, you might miss the best angle to showcase nature’s story. Using a curled edge to make a landscape seem endless. D...

Discover new dimensions and get closer to the moment

Adventurous. Frenzied. Unrestrained.GoPro® cameras display human events in their rawest form. The speed of a zip line. The intensity of an ocean wave. The action’s all there, caught in a still or v...

Make Pup Portraits Pop with Twist 60

Our 60mm f/2.5 Twist 60 lens makes the subject of your images pop by surrounding them in deliciously twisty, swirly blur and subtle vignette. Twist 60, like any of our lenses, takes a little practi...

Manipulating Light to Catch Meaning in the Moment

Light often provides a true spark of inspiration. Home by Theodore Kefalopoulos Lensbaby using Composer Pro with Sweet 35 Optic Thats because light radiates with emotion. It twinkles when were pos...

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A Unique Point-of-View Turns Stories into Something More

You know you love something when youve been doing it all of your life and it still feels like you just started.Thats how Jay Hunter feels about working in the film industry.As a director of photogr...