I have been a fan of the Lensbaby series of lens for ages.  I wrote up my first impressions of the lens here a number of years ago, but simply put the Lensbaby is a selective focus lens.  Basically it allows you to isolate certain parts of your subject while the rest of the photograph is blurred.  What is different from other lens is how you use it.  There is no auto focus or zoom functions that most modern lens have, you manually focus the subject by gripping the lens and twisting left-right-up-down to find your focusing point.  I know that it sounds weird and when my clients are watching me use it they often wonder what I’m doing, but the outside of the lens is made of a rubbery type plastic that allows you to twist it in multiple directions. 

Using it is far from a science, especially with subjects that are moving because the results are somewhat unpredictable depending on how you are twisting and holding the lens, but in many ways its one of the most creative lens that I have. Its almost a pure artist lens and allows me to be completely creative in ways that other lens don’t - its almost freeing me from the modern world that we live in when I’m behind the camera.  As such its pretty much always in my kit bag or out in the photography studio ready and I like to use it on most of my sessions for some of the time to give the clients some extra choice of photographs that they can select from.

These few shots here were of Newborn Hanna with the eyes as the primary focusing point.