Celebrating with a Lensbaby Giveaway!
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner has been randomly selected and announced here. Thanks for entering everyone!
If you follow us on twitter (@petapixel), you might have heard already, but we just passed 10,000 followers. Huzzah!
This blog is about four months old, so I’m definitely surprised at how far it has come in just one summer. Thank you all for reading and following us on Twitter.
To celebrate this big milestone, I’m going to be giving away a Lensbaby Composer lens and a Creative Aperture Kit. This combined package is worth $280. I probably don’t need to tell you much more about this lens. It’s Lensbaby.
To enter this giveaway, simply answer the following question:
What is your favorite childhood memory?
As usual, there’s two ways to enter, and you can use both ways to double your chances.
- Leave your response as a comment on this PetaPixel.com post
- Tweet your response, and include the following link to this post anywhere in the tweet: http://bit.ly/pplbby
If the link appears in your tweet, then our little giveaway elf will automatically find it and count it as an entry. If you don’t include the link, then our elf won’t be able to find it and it won’t be counted.
The deadline for getting your answer to us is the evening of Saturday, September 5th, 2009. We’ll be randomly selecting an entry using random.org.
Good luck!
Update: Some of you have been asking whether people outside the United States can enter. The answer is yes. The lens can be shipped internationally. Good luck!
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When my dad would take my family to Lake Powell in the new boat, a green aluminum boat. This is back in the days when I had to wear a yucky orange life jacket and you would not see another boat for hours. Those were the days.
One of my favourite childhood memories has to be when our father took us to Australia for Christmas. I had always associated Christmas & Winter as hand in hand so it blew my mind when Christmas dinner was cooked over the BBQ while we opened presents and pulled crackers. A memory I shall cherish.
http://bit.ly/pplbby It was my firth birthday and inside my parents' Brooklyn brownstone I was running around with three colorful stripes splashed across both my cheeks and a maroon cape tied to my neck. The apartment was spilling over with other three year olds and their parents while in the railroad-style kitchen my mother energetically flipped palacscintas, Hungarian pancakes. All at once two dozen helium balloons dropped mysteriously from the tin ceiling to the floor in the living room; this was clearly not supposed to happen. I dove over the sea of balloons–popping each and every one of them. It was the most fun I have ever had at a birthday party!
My favorite childhood memory is a trip to the mountain side with my parents in the winter. I remember it was snowing very much and everything was covered in snow.
One of my favorite childhood memories was sneaking around industrial offices and buildings with crazy daring friends. http://bit.ly/pplbby
My fondest memory is probably my first travel to the US with my parents. I was 10 or so and making this month-long road trip in the middle west left me truly unforgettable memories.
I already have a image in my mind of the triptych I'd make with a lensbaby. Man those look like fun. http://bit.ly/pplbby
Absolutely loved my first trip to Niagara Falls!!
There are so many, but one would have to be spending the holidays on Nana and Pop's farm – bottom of the south island of New Zealand. Chasing the sheep, playing with the dogs, swinging on the big (probably actually weren't that big!) swings…
It's hard to choose just one favorite childhood memory, but it would probably be racing down a mountainside outside Albuquerque, NM, with my cousins who lived there. We weren't bothering with roads, just taking the most direct route down, through yards and gullies and down “cliffs” (that were probably at most three feet high). Then, when we got to the bottom, we realized we had no idea how to get back up to their house, so we walked for nearly an hour before we found the road that led up to their neighborhood. Lots of excitement that day, both on the trip down and when we returned to frantic parents O.o
My favorite childhood memory is when we went fishing and my Uncle told me to use a empty toilet paper roll to call the fish! I caught the biggest fish all weekend long!
My favorite childhood memory; sitting on the lawn at 2 in the morning watching the stars, full of dreams & aspirations. (Then I grew up :o/ )
building a secret fort in the backyard of my friends house, which also happened to be the backyard of a PG&E office building.
My favorite childhood memory is staying outside at night, watching the sky with my best friend, trying to recognize the stars and constellations and talking about 'nothing'.
I was really happy :-)
Haha….my learning to bike memory is almost exactly like that. But one of my favorite memories revolves around my first trip on a plane. The plane itself was exciting enough, mind you, but it was the fact that when I got ON the plane in upstate New York there was snow and ice under overcast skies and the temp was, I don't know, in the teens (F) and when we got OFF just 3 and a half hours later in Florida it was 75 degrees and sunny. It was miraculous!
My favorite childhood memory: staring at a huge pile of burning Christmas trees in the dark, being 6 and mesmerized. Today I like to relight the fire in people as a coach and photograph the effect :-)
One of my favorite childhood memories is the first time i saw a Ferris Wheel. It was soo huge and although i was afraid to ride on it at first, once i got up, I was so happy. Definitely one of my happiest memories.
Visiting Egypt and seeing the Pyramids and the Sphynx in person
definitely want one!
My favorite childhood memory is sitting at my great-grandmother's table after school tracing the carvings in the chairs with my fingers.
My favorite childhood memory is visiting the cinema for the first time, aged 10, after an appendectomy.
I remember when I went to a soccer match. I was about 7 and the stadium was so crowded that you almost couldn't find a place to sit. Here in Brazil, when you're about this age you could go inside the field with the soccer players. It was amazing to hear more than 30.000 people shouting the name of your team. It was unbelievable!!!
My favorite childhood memory? Sitting with grandparents on porch at twilight, watching birds in the trees and at the feeders, learning their calls & their names. They made me appreciate the world around me, even those little things. http://bit.ly/pplbby
My favorite childhood memory? Sitting with grandparents on porch at twilight, watching birds in the trees and at the feeders, learning their calls & their names. They made me appreciate the world around me, even those little things. http://bit.ly/pplbby
@ petapixel My favourite childhood memory is the day my baby sister was born.
My favorite childhood memory was catching lightning bugs in jelly jars with my brother and finding night crawlers for fishing and putting them in old coffee cans with dirt. We did this every summer that I can remember growing up. I was quite the tomboy.
Climbing a tree and reading a book for the whole afternoon!
My favourite childhood memory is of going on Volksmarches every weekend as a child, while living at a military base in Germany. We'd enjoy seeing the gardens, many wall murals and orchards. Every 10 km walk ended with a metal and a delicious bratwurst with fries.
My best childhood memory is waking up in a hotel room to find all of the Christmas presents on Christmas morning. Every year the family would pack up and drive 6 hours to the beach, stay at the same hotel, see all the same people. But, the best part of that Christmas vacation was waking up in the hotel room, the salty smell of the ocean hitting my nose making me remember I wasn't in my room at home before I could even open my eyes and realizing that there were presents on the floor of the room (that weren't there when I went to bed). Best Christmas(es) ever.
Favorite childhood memory: My dad took me to my first rock concert when I was 10-years-old (1980.) We saw Elton John at the Forum in Los Angeles. Tickets were only $15…for two ($7.50/each!) Nearly 30 years later, I even still remember the opening act was Judy Tzuke. I clearly remember the bearded biker-dude in front of us shouting at her, “Get off the stage. You suck!” Ha. Elton John was great. I've since seen hundreds (and hundreds) of concerts, including Elton 56 more times.
I remember laying on my back in a tall grass, looking at the white clouds pass on a blue sky.
Mt favorit memory is my first travel in Sardinia,when I whas 18
I loved going on vacation with my grandparents.
@ petapixel My favourite childhood memory is the day my baby sister was born.
My favourite childhood memory is of going on Volksmarches every weekend as a child, while living at a military base in Germany. We'd enjoy seeing the gardens, many wall murals and orchards. Every 10 km walk ended with a metal and a delicious bratwurst with fries.
I remember laying on my back in a tall grass, looking at the white clouds pass on a blue sky.
Mt favorit memory is my first travel in Sardinia,when I whas 18
I loved going on vacation with my grandparents.
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Scrabbling over dirt mounds to help my father excavate an old churchyard in central Texas, my trusty, plastic “archaeologist's kit”—courtesy of my mother—at my side, the cheap magnifying glass helping me pick out arrowheads from the rabble.
Hope I'm not too late! My fave memory is baking with my family for Christmas. Loved the smell of fresh-baked cookies and Swedish bread! Still love it…it means home and love and all things great! Thanks for this giveaway!!
~Lilbear
cooking with my great aunt and sleeping over at my grandparents!
Lazy summer days, when you didn't have to get up early (but you did anyway), didn't have to do anything really (but you did anyway), and just not a care in the world. No deadlines, bills, pressure – just the joy of being a kid, with unlimited possibilities for each summer day.
If only we could recognize and appreciate those days while they were happening…
Riding around on my bike with my little poodle in the front basket. As an only child she was my best friend – we travelled the world (our little world) together on that green bike! Sweet memories :D
No I missed it. This is my first post here so I guess I'll contribute to the moment.
My favorite memory about those nights where the whole family spent time hanging around on the rooftop looking at the stars and talking about life. I'm usually the only kid around and I got to hear things that I should have never heard off
By the way, wonderful website. It's been extremely resourceful in my quest to become a photographer
I don't know if im too late, but my favorite childhood memory was when my older brother taught me how to ride a bike. He just took me up on top of a hill and said “Pedal!” and pushed me down it! I learned pretty fast. Haha
I was 9 years old and convinced my folks to let me use a camera. I knew it only took 12 shots since it was a 120 twin reflex camera. I kept going back to them to get the film changed. They would never let me learn how to change the film, always saying it was to hard. After our trip I kept asking about when the lab would be done with my images. A month goes by and I go to my mom very concerned about the lab loosing my images. Turns out that they never put film in the camera. I was crushed, but it never happened again… Little did they both know how important photography was to me, but trust me they both knew after that day. 7 years later I sold my first image.
My Fav childhood memory is when I got my first dog named Johnny. He was a fluff ball and living in India was not the best place for a fluffy dog. Had some fun times!