Celebrating with a Lensbaby Giveaway!

Michael Zhang · Aug 28, 2009

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.

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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!

Disclosure: Lensbaby is currently a sponsor of PetaPixel.

Ricardo Perez

I like to remember when I was young and there was a lot of fruit trees and I just grabbed mangos, guayabas, mandarines, oranges, mamoncillos, coconuts… hmm delicious
Ricardo Perez

I like to remember when I was young and there was a lot of fruit trees and I just grabbed mangos, guayabas, mandarines, oranges, mamoncillos, coconuts… hmm delicious
http://nyuu.ro/ yoshi

My first winter in which the snow was higher than me.
Brenda

My favorite childhood memory always included my twin brother. Riding our bikes up and down the street, catching frogs….simple things.
acer824

Riding horses at my grandfather's farm all summer…
http://twitter.com/mbravo mbravo

You know, it's difficult to lift a “favourite” memory out of a happy childhood. But let's say it was the summer vacations time, traveling with my parents in an old trusty car, sleeping on the backseat to the familiar engine sound (I can still pick out that sound from hundreds of meters away, not that there is many such cars left operational), awakening to a new place outside, sleeping in a tent, absorbing sounds, colours, smells…
pentaxfan

The one thing as a child that stands out as one of the very best an happiest is one Christmas our family was struggling as usual, my Father was no longer with us so it was my Mother and 6 of us kids left to fend for ourselves. Somehow on Christmas Morning there under the tree was a huge pile of presents. Santa had surely been to my house, Oh My what a morning! I looked under the tree and there were some big items that had been left out and not wrapped, I spotted my gift of all gifts!!! It was a castle with a drawbridge, knights and all the kings men on foot and horseback ready to defend it to no end. I was so excited (ADHD-Who Knew?) and had to play. Yes I am smiling as I remember that one Christmas that Santa came through for my family. I think that was the year I got a doll for Christmas, I was used to playing with trucks and tractors because that is what little boys do! Thanks for helping to bring back a memory from years ago! Kelly.
http://twitter.com/ScatenaM Michell Scatena

My favorite memory from childhood is without a doubt the next day after Christmas, the day when we'd found the gifts and spent all day using them. Riding a new bike, playing a new video game… oh joy :P
http://sarahtomlinphotography.com/ Sarah

My favorite childhood memory is very difficult to say. Maybe it was when my mom took my bedroom door off it's hinges because she told me not to close it and i did anyways……or when I hit a sports car in the car lot the day i was going testdriving for a new vehicle…
pixor

Building a sandcastle at the beach with my dad and brother, then watching as the tide came in and swept it away. If I close my eyes I can feel the sun, smell the sea, hear the waves.
http://twitter.com/GwagDesigns GwagDesigns

Climbing sand dunes over at my uncles place on the beach. They were so high!
http://twitter.com/Shahba1 Ameet Shah

My favorite childhood memory was the spontaneous road trips that my dad would decide to take with the family. I remember waking up one morning and my dad was like “Let's drive to Disneyworld” and we just took off and left on an 8 hour drive to spend a weekend there with our family.
http://twitter.com/leolongoria Leo Longoria

I remember setting up a mock radio station in my parents bedroom. I would make playlists, run fake commercials and talk in the weird top 40 radio voice.
rhiannon

I think my favorite childhood memory is being in my grandmothers garden when I was about 5 or 6. All the seasons are jumbled in my head I see lots of flowers that couldn't be there at the same time, but it is always happy and beautiful.
mykllynyrd

My favorite memory is when after Grandpa's pond at his farm was filled, he striped down to his undies & splashed around with me and the dogs
Peter Wong

Falling into a manhole (sewers) while walking with my mom. I think this happened when I was 4 or 5. The manhole for some reason wasn't very deep so I didn't get hurt.
Imad M

Going to the beach to watch the sun set with my family. We'd sit on the rocks and watch the boats go by as the sky and water turned orange and red.
colin

going to the museum with my working mom– maybe i've made it more significant in retrospect. she really couldn't afford the time off.
http://www.benjamieson.com/ Ben Jamieson

My favourite is my dad taking me to the zoo – I was about 5. He was holding my hand, looked down and said “Your hands are always as warm as toast” He was gone not long after and that’s one of the few memories I hold to this day.
http://Jacoboconnell.com/ Jake OConnell

A favorite childhood memory was working back stage on the 2 performances in middle school. I loved it, being with friends being on(back)stage, entertaining people. All the tech the wires, and mics, and soundboard and lights(which were far from tech heheheh)

Jake
http://Jacoboconnell.com Jake OConnell

A favorite childhood memory was working back stage on the 2 performances in middle school. I loved it, being with friends being on(back)stage, entertaining people. All the tech the wires, and mics, and soundboard and lights(which were far from tech heheheh)

Jake
http://twitter.com/MJustM Miranda McAfee

Christmas! It was always hectic as we ran from house to house visiting relatives, but always so much fun.
http://twitter.com/res2216firestar Sam Smoker

Seeing a polaroid photo of myself at 5. It was amazing and got me hooked on photography.
Photomama

@petapixel spending time with my grandparents on the farm Instructions here: http://bit.ly/sHGMs
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http://twitter.com/meglet54 Meghan Alexander

My favorite childhood memory is from the winter that my mom married my stepdad. Not long after the wedding, we got a LOT of snow. And my stepdad acquired an old car hood, which he hooked to a small tractor with some chains. Then he spent hours pulling me and my new step-siblings up and down our (really long) driveway on that car hood. It was like sledding on steroids, and so awesome when he'd swing around the corner and we'd fly off into a snow drift.
http://twitter.com/fabazu Fabricio Azurdia

There was this time when my family bought a house and we were painting it, I ended white-painted al my body using the paintroller trying to paint a single part of a wall. Nice memories. http://bit.ly/pplbby
http://www.bellavalentinaphotography.com/ Jessica Price

Helping my Dad around the farm, and helping my Grandmother in her garden. I have the best family ever!
kyleburgess

My mom would help me make volcanoes by combining vinegar, baking soda and red food dye and letting it fizz up through a cone. All my friends knew if they came over to visit, they would always get to make one too.
rhondaholcomb

My favorite childhood memory is catching fireflies during hot Texas' summers with neighborhood friends.
http://www.alonsocreative.com/ Jose Alonso

Riding by bike as fast as I could with no worries over the long summer!
http://www.matthewdlyons.com matthewdlyons

A favorite childhood memory was spending time at my grandparents' house. My sister and I would spend countless numbers of hours roaming the neighborhood on our bikes, and our grandma would drive us across town to the one place that served chocolate/vanilla twist soft-serve ice cream.
http://gwalter.weebly.com gwalter

Favorite childhood memory: 7 or 8 yrs old – Exploring Mt. Tabor with my friends on a rainy Fall day in Portland, OR
HopperTSQ

Taking my first pictures, at the time with a somewhat crappy Kodak Instamatic 33 and holding the developed pictures in my hands afterwards. Got me hooked to photography
HopperTSQ

Taking my first pictures, at the time with a somewhat crappy Kodak Instamatic 33 and holding the developed pictures in my hands afterwards. Got me hooked to photography
robknightphoto

I remember playing baseball with my Grand-dad in his back yard. If I hit the ball into the woods he would always say that I hit the ball into the “boondocks”. My mom recently gave me a DVD that she had made of some old 8mm film… one scene shows me and my Grand-dad in his old back yard. He passed away many years ago, and it was wonderful to find this old footage.
DanaLanePhoto

Seeing the pacific ocean for the first time, I think I must have been about 5. What a sight!
http://twitter.com/beckieGkengle Beckie K

my favorite childhood memory is from when I was 4 years old and living in Rockford, Ill, and building igloos in the front yard with my dad!
http://andblogs.net/ Dis

Definitely a family trip to CT to visit grandparents for Christmas. Huge farmhouse, skating pond (although I was too young), giant fireplaces.

I don't miss the hours in the car from DC though.
luizferreira

Sailing a “plastic bottle boat” and feeling myself a conqueror of the seas
http://twitter.com/thelaundry Gloria Nicol

Playing piano duets with my sister, who was 7 years older than me, on one Sunday morning http://bit.ly/pplbby There were lots of wrong notes which made us laugh our socks off. Much jollity and affection. My sister died 16 years ago, so the memory is bittersweet.
http://twitter.com/ceiteag Karen Burgess

I won two awards at my eighth grade graduation. I was so proud, but sad because my dad missed it :-( he was on his way home from a trip as a truck driver and missed it by just a couple hours. He felt bad too. He had to leave early the next morning for another trip to Los Angeles this time. To make up for missing my graduation, he offered to take me with him. I have never changed out of a long gown into jeans so fast in my life (and we weren't leaving until morning)! I had the best time. Eating at truck stops, watching the VW bugs disappear “under” my dad's cab-over in LA traffic.
http://twitter.com/sharonykim sharon kim

It would have to be the day I arrived in the States for the first time. I was 8 years old and for the first time I saw people of every color; people with blue eyes, green eyes, red hair, yellow hair. It was like opening my eyes for the first time. =)
snax06

Watching lighting exploding over the house, whilst hiding in the garage from the heaviest rain ever!
pinlux

my favorite childhood memory is when my 4th grade teacher brought me half a dozen books on photography from the library because she saw that I loved to take pictures all the time. She knew that I loved photography before I did.
DoctorTom

Extremely hard to think of ONE favorite childhood memory. How 'bout this: Sunday evenings sitting in front of the only TV in the house (B & W) and waiting for “The Wonderful World of Disney” to come on… and jostling with my brothers and sister for the best seat in the family room.
iShoot1st

My most favorite childhood memory would have to be receiving my Kodak 110 camera. http://bit.ly/pplbby
toffiloff

My favorite childhood memory is going to the States as a 9-year old, and seeing Ghostbusters tear it up!
http://twitter.com/jzahariades Jason Zahariades

Favorite childhood memory was climbing our apricot tree in our backyard and eating its fruit.
moonflyrepublic

I was learning to read. Making out words was easier than knowing what things were. The words in-between words were hard. I was also learning to count…mostly stars. That night I sat on the wide window ledge in my parents' bedroom and named each star with a word I remembered from a book. In Vietnam the windows in most homes had shutters but no glass like here. “until… now… till… then… every… bit… so… often… and… time… times… time…”
jasondrumm

Favorite Childhood Memory: Climbing massive pine trees with my bro in our backyard, pretending we had machine guns. Ha! http://bit.ly/pplbby

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