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.

composer

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.

http://jack-regnart.myopenid.com/ err_ok

Favorite childhood memory is playing with my new Batmobile + Batman and my Dad playing with my new Joker toy and having battles and things. It was while we lived in Epsom, the only details I remember are that it was on a hill and it was sunny.
Hottshots

My fondest memory was kissing my first and last love. We were 13. We're married and just celebrated our 60th birthdays.
Bill C

I was perhaps 2-3 years old. We had returned late at night from a family trip and I remember my father picking me up and carrying me into the house. Half-awake as he took me out of the car, I remember looking up at the stars, which were absolutely brilliant. Coupled with the sensation of floating and security, it formed an impression I've never forgotten.
czimmermann

One of my favorite childhood memories is the day we brought my baby sister home from the hospital. My other sister and I were bouncing up and down in the back seat trying to catch a peek over my mother's shoulder at the tiny face in the baby blanket. I also remember watching my dad lower 6-packs of empty ginger ale bottles from the 2nd floor balcony to the backyard using what he called a “bottle elevator” (which probably was nothing more than a wire coat hanger and string.)
http://www.ellephotos.com/ Linda

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.
Smoogylady

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.
robertafineberg

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!
Drkev

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.
http://twitter.com/kirknetic Kirk Lepiten

One of my favorite childhood memories was sneaking around industrial offices and buildings with crazy daring friends. http://bit.ly/pplbby
antoinerev

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.
peterhowell

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
http://jmphotographyonline.ca jmphotography

Absolutely loved my first trip to Niagara Falls!!
http://melanie.jane.name Melanie

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…
http://twitter.com/darkfoxprime Johnson Earls

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
http://twitter.com/NikkiWork Nicolette Work

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!
http://twitter.com/dannywork Daniel Work

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/ )
johnko

building a secret fort in the backyard of my friends house, which also happened to be the backyard of a PG&E office building.
llsalive

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 :-)
videoflyer

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!
http://twitter.com/AvandenB Alexander v.d. Bosch

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 :-)
http://twitter.com/yeongbing yeongbing

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.
http://twitter.com/neil_rees Neil Rees

Visiting Egypt and seeing the Pyramids and the Sphynx in person
Nimish Gogri

definitely want one!
http://web.me.com/shaunna.haynes Shaunna Haynes

My favorite childhood memory is sitting at my great-grandmother's table after school tracing the carvings in the chairs with my fingers.
patrickahles

My favorite childhood memory is visiting the cinema for the first time, aged 10, after an appendectomy.
colato

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!!!
Gardenwife

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
Gardenwife

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
http://twitter.com/gingeranderson gingeranderson

Favorite memory… learning how to catch shrimp at night with a flashlight off a pier when I was 8 in Lopez Island, WA.
http://twitter.com/tonyisme Tony Teoh Melkild

One of many: Picking apple’s in the garden and pulling them around in my toy truck.
http://twitter.com/Pleyades Cait Wade

Playing the NES submarine warfare game “Silent Service” with my father. The midi-esque theme song is forever stuck in my head!
Anonymous

My favorite childhood memory is a very difficult (for me, at the time) hike to a spot called “the knob” atop of Massanutten mountain, and the breathtaking view of the Shenendoah Valley from there. Photo of the “Duncan’s Knob” (not mine) from the web: http://www.midatlantichikes.com/dk09-8.jpg
http://twitter.com/kweinert Ken Weinert

I have very fond memories of spending summers at my grandparents and helping stack the wood in the basement so we could stay warm over the winter.
http://twitter.com/kweinert Ken Weinert

I have very fond memories of spending summers at my grandparents and helping stack the wood in the basement so we could stay warm over the winter.
http://www.colin-wright.com/ Colin Wright

One of my favorite memories is of listening to my father and his two brothers talking about their childhood in northeast Tennessee while sitting on the porch at my grandmother’s house in Florida.

My father talked about how, when was a teenager, he would skip school and take my grandfather’s car joyriding all day. My grandfather caught on, and began taking parts off the car in the morning to keep it from being driven. Dad bought spare parts, and hid them, installing them on the car for his joyriding. Then grandpa began chaining the car to the fencepost. Dad modified the fence posts so he could still free the car for his joyriding. The last phase of this back-and-forth ritual was when grandpa started chaining the car to a tree in the yard. Dad found a chain link he could insert that allowed him to open the chain at will. By then, the whole town was talking about the crazy old man that was chaining his car to a tree!

They’re all gone now, but the memories of those stories still live with me.
Syn

Favourite childhood memory? Crewing the high-budget fireworks night at school. Explosives! Crawling through vents! Excellent.
Anonymous

My favorite memory is going home right after school to watch my favorite cartoons , G.I. Joe , He-Man , Transformers , Silverhawks , Thundercats with a big bowl of Captain Crunch of course.
http://twitter.com/bjhtc Barb

My favorite memory as a child every sunday riding my bike into the city with my dad for tennis coaching. In those days every sunday morning the golfers would be playing golf early in the morning and as a young girl riding past would innocently yell out four as they went to hit the ball and my dad would disown me.
http://www.kindofpretty.com kindofpretty

My favorite childhood memory would have to be…
Road tripping with my family up to a massive beach in the North Island of New Zealand. The beach is considered a road so we drove down it. At a certain point we came across a dead shark which was actually really beautiful. I was really young and my mum had expressed a great desire to get the sharks jaw and skull. So as they set up the picnic for lunch I set about cutting the head off the shark. It was a long, and really gross task. But I did it! My mum wrapped it up and took it home and she now has this amazing sharks jaw. I have never done anything so ruthless and can’t imagine me doing that nowdays.
http://twitter.com/destruit secrent asian man

My favorite childhood memory was, as cliche as it sounds, the Christmas morning when I received my first dollhouse. Like many families around the world, Christmas was riddled with tradition and excitement starting all the way back in November. I’d always wanted a dollhouse, but until that year, my family hadn’t been able to afford it. I woke up on Christmas morning to the smell of my dad’s wassail and the sound of the logs snapping in the fireplace, and wandered sleepy eyed into the living room. The only illumination came from the fireplace and the tree lights, strings upon strings of tiny bulbs glowing like a village of elves lived inside. And there under the tree, without the ribbons or the paper, sat my dollhouse. My pink and white dollhouse, with a little plastic family smiling from inside. That was my favorite Christmas and probably always will be.
http://twitter.com/destruit secrent asian man

My favorite childhood memory was, as cliche as it sounds, the Christmas morning when I received my first dollhouse. Like many families around the world, Christmas was riddled with tradition and excitement starting all the way back in November. I’d always wanted a dollhouse, but until that year, my family hadn’t been able to afford it. I woke up on Christmas morning to the smell of my dad’s wassail and the sound of the logs snapping in the fireplace, and wandered sleepy eyed into the living room. The only illumination came from the fireplace and the tree lights, strings upon strings of tiny bulbs glowing like a village of elves lived inside. And there under the tree, without the ribbons or the paper, sat my dollhouse. My pink and white dollhouse, with a little plastic family smiling from inside. That was my favorite Christmas and probably always will be.
http://www.cksmetalart.blogspot.com/ Cindy

Playing hide-n-go-seek on horseback with my dad…under a full moon. We loved to go riding when the Texas moon was full. That big sky would glow and give a wonderful reflection atop the trees and hills. One of us would dart off the trail. The other would circle around in a search and find mission. The horses could find their way pretty easily and I think they enjoyed the game as much as my father and I.
http://twitter.com/iMatthew_ matthew.i

congrats on your 10K followers!
http://twitter.com/iMatthew_ matthew.i

congrats on your 10K followers!
Frances

My favorite childhood memory was going on a roadtrip to Disney World with my parents and grandmother. When we got there I was so excited to see Disney characters, and with my small arms I gave big hugs to Minnie and Mickey in the park.
Frances

My favorite childhood memory was going on a roadtrip to Disney World with my parents and grandmother. When we got there I was so excited to see Disney characters, and with my small arms I gave big hugs to Minnie and Mickey in the park.
http://twitter.com/iMatthew_ matthew.i

My favorite childhood memory is homemade ice cream on a VERY HOT 4th of July after shooting off fireworks in the back yard at my Grandfathers house in the midwest
http://twitter.com/iMatthew_ matthew.i

My favorite childhood memory is homemade ice cream on a VERY HOT 4th of July after shooting off fireworks in the back yard at my Grandfathers house in the midwest
http://twitter.com/anALYSEs1982 Alyse Liebovich

One of my favorite childhood memories is the feeling of bringing my pillow outside, lying on the driveway and staring at clouds. I used to have a wild imagination and was often told I “livd in my own world.” http://bit.ly/pplbby
http://twitter.com/planetf1 Nigel Jones

When I was 4, remember my parents coming back home to tell me I had a new baby brother.

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