Abi is a Lensbaby Ambassador from the UK, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She has a PhD in Cosmology and for 9 years wrote crosswords for, and proof-read puzzle magazines. Now she works solely as a photographer, creating beautiful art to sell and as a mentor. She has a passion for all creative techniques; freelensing, double exposures, ICM, using Lensbabys and OMNIs etc… and loves to try out new things and experiment. She’s not tied to any particular genre, but in whatever she shoots her style shines through. Her images are pretty and ethereal, with light, blur and colour used to tell stories.

Alison, known as Ali, is a diverse photographer in Cleveland, Ohio. Professionally she specializes in lifestyle, portraits, and documentary work with families and branding for businesses. In her free time she enjoys photographing her own family in addition to nature, street, macro, and still life photography. Ali enjoys using storytelling, perspective, color, light, shadow, movement and emotion in her work. In addition to being a Lensbaby Ambassador, Ali is also a Click Pro Elite and has been published by Click Magazine, Lensational: Model & Photographer Magazine, as well as Photo Cereal Magazine and has completed four Project 365s (shooting daily and sharing for a year).

I’m always on the lookout for rainbows, and if I can’t find them then I’ll try to create them.

Ally was born and raised in Las Cruces, NM, and has spent half a decade in Appleton, WI. She is a wife and mother, and animal lover. She relies on her coffee every morning, and will never turn down a chocolate-chip cookie. She is obsessed with photography and will sit for hours discussing the ins and outs of the art. She has always had a camera in hand, dating back to the Kodak disposable cameras from her childhood. As technology has advanced, she has kept up with the trends, and now finds herself mainly shooting with a Sony mirrorless camera. She currently dedicates most of her time to documenting her family adventures.

Alma is a creative product and book cover photographer living in Asturias, in northern
Spain. Mother of a girl and human of a Swiss white shepherd and a Bengali cat.
She purchased his first lensbaby lens, the Trio 28mm, in 2018. Since then, She has been
creating and growing thanks to lensbaby lenses and the creative possibilities they
offer.

“Lensbaby allows me to create magic from the mundane”

 

British born, American based Art Historian.Amyloves capturing the beauty in the every day from the endless Midwest landscapes to the small details in life. Havingspent a large portion of her life studying the art of others she enjoyscreativetechniques and experimentation within her own photography.

Amy Smith is a  Lensbaby lover currently calling the Louisville, Kentucky area  home. She is super excited and proud to be a  Lensbaby Ambassador as well as a  Click Community Mentor. She shoots a wide variety of genres and subject matter, with  concentrations on food, commercial, and branding photography/videography,  as well as photographing and exploring with her camera and her drone, the  beautiful landscapes and animals around her, and wherever her travels take her.

As a nature photographer specializing in flower photography, Anne’s greatest passion lies in seeing and capturing the beauty of flowers and botanicals up-close. It is the small, often unnoticed details that draw Anne to her subjects – the lines, patterns, textures, curves and unique personality of each subject. It is her belief that if we slow down and look at nature in a more contemplative way, we will find subjects that convey impact and emotion.

With a lifelong involvement in the arts and a deep love of nature that started in childhood, photography became a perfect way for Anne to share her vision of the natural world with others. She has been photographing since she was given her first camera at the age of ten. Her career as an art therapist reinforced her belief in the healing power of both art and nature. Anne’s goal as an educator is to help others see in new ways, unleash their creativity and bring their heart into their photography.
Anne is a team member and instructor for Out of Chicago Photography - www.outofchicago.com. She also presents at conferences throughout the country and teaches private workshops. As a Lensbaby Ambassador, she is passionate about using and teaching others about their creative lenses to enhance artistry and bring emotion into their work. She is firmly committed to the idea that we should never stop learning, growing, experimenting and having fun with photography.

"To conquer without peril, we triumph without glory; Lensbaby is my peril."

Annick is a French Canadian visual storyteller who likes infusing everyday life with the fine arts. Sheis the author of the photography e-courseFleeting to Timeless: Composing Stories that Last a Lifetime and loves mentoring other photographers. She is based in beautiful Québec City, Canada.

Love and laughter comprise the primary subject matter for Vancouver Island-based
photographer Ashley Marston. An award-winning and published Birth, Lifestyle &
Documentary photographer/filmmaker (and busy mother of three), Marston strives for
images that capture those two staples of family relationships, as well as the quiet
moments that might otherwise go unseen. Always seeing life through a lens, Marston
also photographs her own family daily, cherished images she shares on Social Media
through her year-long A Daily Occurrence project. Whether the photographs capture
moments with her family or a client, storytelling is the heart of all her work

"Lensbaby has elevated my creativity and pushed me to look at the world around me in a whole new way."

Ashley is a macro, nature and portrait photographer from Pennsylvania who loves natural light and capturing real and authentic moments. She has been using Lensbaby products for over a year and incorporates them into her portrait sessions to create galleries for her clients that are truly one of a kind. When she isn't behind a camera, she is teaching dance to little ones, collecting vintage cameras, watching true crime documentaries, and consuming large amounts of coffee.

My goal in photography is not necessarily to achieve the technically perfect image but instead to capture a feeling, a mood, to bring the viewer into the photograph for a look around or to just say WOW and the Velvets help me achieve that.

was born, raised and still resides in Richmond, VA.  With a love of all living things, she has an artful eye for detail, color, and light.  Her work is mainly focused on pets, lifestyle portraiture, and nature.

Lensbaby's magical bent, blurry, and swirly effects are spot on for my photography style.

I'm a photographer and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling, it's that
simple. With over a decade of experience, I bring a warm and engaging
approach to my work, capturing moments and creating narratives that
resonate with audiences. Through extensive travel, I've developed a deep
empathy and understanding of people from all walks of life, which is
reflected in my photography and films.

Whether leading large crews, working solo, or behind the scenes, I'm
comfortable in any setting and always deliver exceptional results. When not
working, I find rejuvenation in nature, a good book, or spending time in my
modest garden. I value meaningful conversations and cherish time with my
wife and three boys, who are the pride and joy of my life. With a focus on
honesty and authenticity, I'm dedicated to crafting stories that make a
lasting impact and connect with people on a deeper level.

I learnt to let go, to stop trying to seek the dissatisfaction that comes with ‘perfection’. I found beauty and emotion in the imperfect, I discovered the beauty that resides in the freedom to create without rules.

When I work with macro photography or portraits, my Edge 80 always leaves me with great satisfaction, the softness of the blurs where I select that I want the blur and at the same time the incredible definition it gives in the focused areas, has made my photographs always leave me and my clients happy. I love working with a gear that identifies me and allows me to have an original style, because I achieve results that only this optician can give me.

Carol is a curious creative who never stops learning. She loves to bring emotion into
her images with multiple exposures, blur, and light. She love what’s real…the imperfect.
Carol lives in Ventura, CA with her family where she is always on the go with her two
main subjects - her busy teenagers. Life goes so fast, so she strives to capture life as it
whizzes by. You can find her on the hunt for beautiful light and shadows. She loves to
feel grounded with her toes in the sand and is always finding new ways to create.

Carol Vipperman is a Seattle, Washington-based photographer. I started taking my camera with me on my daily walks around my neighborhood and found that I loved taking photos of flowers. My first and lasting joy is capturing the energy and personality that exists in each flower. My photography has opened up my creativity in surprising ways. I look for the energy and personality in everyday things, such as boat reflections on Lake Union, light bouncing off buildings, neighborhood pets, or the local classic 1949 Studebaker truck. Everything has the possibility of becoming art. 

Cassandra Oleary from imagesbycassandra, is a photographer and designer currently based in Vienna, Austria.

A bit of a nomad she has moved countries a few time and is bringing up two third culture kids. Her camera helps her make sense of the world around her. She is constantly inspired by nature, animals and being outdoors in both her photography and design. Creativity is her addiction.

Cathy Kuhlman is a self taught photographer who loves pushing the limits of light and focus. You’ll find her using nature as her subject, from the smallest details in her macro work through to the largest landscapes and everything in between. She loves finding ways to infuse light and emotion into her work as a way to express how she sees the world. In addition to being a Lensbaby Ambassador, Cathy is also a Click Pro Elite photographer.

Ceri Herd is an internationally exhibited and published photographer, Click Pro and Lensbaby Ambassador from the UK. She
developed her unique photographic style living in the Arizona desert and later the forests of Massachusetts. Now back in the
UK, Ceri’s images are characterized by her love of in-camera creative techniques: double exposures, intentional camera
movement, shooting through objects and the extraordinary blur created by Lensbaby lenses.

Lensbaby is artistic freedom. It’s the ability tohave endless possibilities of uninhibited creativity.

Kapuschinsky is a self-taught, internationally recognized, award-winning fine artist specializing in rich, emotive monochromatic imagery. Using her maiden name in her photography is a way of paying homage to her father for sparking her love of photography when she was a child. Having six young children of her own, she finds her soft spot in artistic lifestyle portraiture but also enjoys delving into architecture, nature, and the abstract.

“I make photography with my soul, capturing different moments of my life. I see the world differently through the lens of my camera; it has taught me to notice beauty when sadness surrounds me.

I’ve always been fascinated by people. I like looking at them, studying their characteristics, their reaction, getting to know their stories. I believe each human being is unique, beautiful and unpredictable.

I won many photography competitions including: National Award 2021 Sony World Photography Awards, National Award 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, BenQ 2019 PhotoVue Competition, PWP’s 37th Anniversary International, Shoot The Face International Portrait Photography Award, TZIPAC, Px3, IPA, 35photo awards and many more.

My photographs have been exhibited in places such as London, Krakow, Dublin, Vermont, New York, Vienna, Cairo, Rome, Switzerland, Athens, Moscow, India, France (Saint Gilles Croix de Vie) and many more.

My works have appeared in various publications & websites including: Lensbaby, Adore Chroma Magazine, Silvershotz Magazine, Professional Photographer Magazine Uk, PH magazine, Worbz, Blur Magazine, Camera Obscura Journal, DPI Magazine, Tribe Magazine, Musse magazine, Foto4all, CHIP Foto Video, Photo Magazine, Fine Art Photo Magazine, Lookslikefilm, Seamlessphoto, 1x.com, N-Photo Magazine, Practical Photography Magazine, 121clicks.com and many more.”

Lensbaby allows me to find the magic in the every day moments and shoot creatively to breakthrough mental barriers.

 

Crystal is a work-at-home mom of 4. She is a hobbyist photographer who picked up a camera when she started to have kids in order to capture their lives. Crystal is passionate about memory keeping and creating a legacy for those who come after her. Life is hard and also fleeting, so she is determined to capture those everyday moments and show them for the magic that they really are. 

Photography has also been a huge part of her mental health therapy and she fully believes that creative photography, and Lensbaby in particular, has helped to save her life. Crystal is an advocate for empowering others on their mental health journey by sharing her own experiences and the work that she has personally done and still does every day, in which photography plays a very vital role.

 

 

Dallas is a multi subject photographer located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Professionally, her work concentrates on high school seniors, but she also does family and branding portrait work. When not working with clients, she enjoys macro, street, nature and documentary photography. She is a lover of natural light and uses it in all of her work. Her senior work has been featured inSenior Szn Magazine numerous times and one of her images was the Best of 2023. Her floral macro work has also been published in numerous magazines and she has an image in a coffee table book. In addition to being a Lensbaby Ambassador, Dallas is also a Click Pro Elite and a Click Pro Ambassador. Her passion for photography began in middle school when she was gifted a Kodak Colorburst Camera for Christmas.

Started as a food photographer but later on I found freedom in the streets. I am professional photo and videographer who balancing between high profile clients and at my free time I love be on  the streets and shoot alone. I like create and view different and an artistic way. That is why I don’t like to categorize myself because I even like shoot weddings and fashion as well even portraits. I also have a You tube channel where I entertain and teach photography in a creative way.

For me, Lensbaby is courage to create beyond the ordinary!

 

Danielle Thurman Trina is an internationally awarded and recognized, children's fine art photographer in Colorado Springs, CO. Her work has been published in numerous publications, education platforms and galleries. Danielle is a well espected artist in the photography community serving as an instructor and expert artist for Unraveled Academy, Finding North Photography Education and The Milky Way. Danielle also earned her place as a master artist for Click Pro 2020 and as a Lensbaby ambassador in 2021.

Lensbaby is enabling a lot of people to move from a creative rut based on ultra sharp images and some strange idea of perfection, as a result many people have grown as artists.

 

In about 1972 a friend loaned me an old Zenit B, a Helios 44 lens and a no-name 135mm f/2.8, it weighed a ton, was clunky as hell and took quite nice pics. Before University, my parents bought me a Practica LLC (which I hated!), started B&W developing and printing because I was a photographer for the student paper and it was cheap.

My first course was HND Electrical and Electronic Engineering, photography was a hobby. After leaving university with its nice darkroom I was limited to developing and printing in the bathrooms of various houses until eventually returning to university for a degree in Applied Math, PhD in Computational Statistics and becaming a lecturer, first in Mathematics and, finally, in the Art School, teaching Sound engineering, Cinematography and Photography (with no formal qualifications in any of them!).

Lensbaby came into my life in 2014 when looking for a way to get similar effects to freelensing without the damage to the cameras that it caused. Lecturing in the UK became all about the paperwork so I retired in 2018, at the age of 60, and moved to France where I spend a lot of time doing photography and woodwork. We are doing some house renovations and I built my first real darkroom in the old barn with two enlargers and the ability to investigate old processes like Cyanotype, alternative processes like Caffenol and odd formats like 110, 120 and 127 film. Using mainly Nikon cameras, both film and digital (but with a collection of other makes of film cameras that is getting out of hand).

I met Craig Strong at a Photography Show in 2017 and in 2019, at the same Photography show, I was invited to be one of the staff on the Lensbaby stand. I have a fairly extensive collection of Lensbabies from one of the first, hand built ones to the latest Double Glass ii.

I love that I can create images with an almost surreal quality right in-camera, without the need for a lot ofphoto editing to enhance my vision of the world.

 

 

“Lensbaby inspires me to create art in a way that speaks to my soul.”

Photography is my passion. It gives me the creative outlet I need to feed my soul. I am inspired by the beauty of nature, whether it be a gorgeous seascape, woodland forest, colorful sunset or detail of a flower. I especially love macro photography because it forces me to slow down, study details and capture the beauty of things that may often be overlooked. One of my favorite things to do is use one of my Lensbaby lenses along with a creative technique such as shooting through a prism, a piece of copper pipe or one of the Omni filters.
I also love photographing our furry friends. As a veterinarian, I know that our pets add so much love and joy to our families. I enjoy capturing their personalities and little details that make them unique.
Although a New Yorker at heart, my home is now in beautiful Southern Oregon where I live with my family and two spoiled rotten felines.

“I find creative passion by envisioning and capturing the world surrounding me and the light that permeates it with the dreamlike, magical, unique focus Lensbaby lenses, optics, and creative tools provide.”

Liz finds joy in light and life. Her inspiration comes from the beauty of the everyday moments, the blessings of God's amazing creation. She lives in her hometown in South-Central Pennsylvania with her family where she practices occupational therapy in early intervention, runs, hikes, and bikes in the nearby forests and farmlands, and creates art and vision through the lens. She explores and expands her vision through creative lenses and techniques to develop art with elements of depth, mystery, layers, curiosity, hope, and storytelling. She enjoys teaching, inspiring, and equipping others to tell the unique stories of their lives through photography.

Emma Davis is a photographic storyteller who lives in Sydney, Australia, with her six children aged between 3 - 18. She is a photography instructor and mentor at Click Love Grow. Emma is obsessed with color, chaos, and blur. She is passionate about documenting the beauty in all those ordinary little moments that make up our everyday lives.

As cliché as it sounds, I’ve always said that the first time I used one of these lenses I felt as though I’d come home, as though that last puzzle piece had finally slotted into place and I was free to be exactly who I was. Almost all of my work these days is shot using my Edge 35, a lens that allows me to shoot work that feels exciting and authentic to my individual voice.

My name is Erin Harrigan, I am a photographer based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I guess you could say my love for the outdoors has made me a landscape photographer, but in my heart, I am an aspiring storyteller. I enjoy getting creative with my photography and challenging traditional perspectives.

Evy Mackland is a photographer living amongst the mountains and fjords in Norway. She is primarily a portrait photographer and like to include elements of the environment to create an emotive connection with the viewer. Photography is her love affair with life, from chasing the light to capturing every day beauty. Through the Lensbaby products Evy found a creative freedom which enabled her to break rules and make the ordinary extraordinary.

For me, the Lensbaby products open up more creativity options than any other brand.

Choose from awesome accessories for lens flares or mor that makes every creative person happy.

Gerri enjoys photographing all subjects and especially the challenge of new ways to see through the creative use of Lensbaby lenses.  She is a Lensbaby Ambassador.

Gerri has been a featured speaker/instructor at regional camera conferences including Mike Moats Macro Convention, Hazel Meredith’s Creative Photography Conferences, New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) Photo Conference and Out of Chicago Conferences.  Gerri also instructs in creative photography presentations with camera clubs, in person or online.

Gerri’s images have been featured in several publications, commercial propsals and she also has reviewed several photography books for development by Focal Press Publications.  Her images have received several first place awards in national and regional photo competitions.

Gerri resides in Buffalo, New York. 

 

Greg Yakubov is a multi-disciplined media creative. He studied film production in college. His focuses started in screenwriting and developed into bringing the words from page to screen.

Greg Yakubov is a videographer based in New York City. He believes Lensbaby products carry the ability to be incredibly versatile in creating cinematic visuals unlike any other.

Greg is a director of photography (also known as cinematographer) on many shoots from comedy sketches, documentaries and short films.

“Composer pro with sweet 35 and 50 optic create extraordinary blur effect that help me to get dreamy and poetic impression in my work, which I can not get from any other lens”

Hollie Jeakins is a photographer residing in Ontario, Canada with her husband and two children. She enjoys using vintage and Lenbaby lenses to capture childhood moments, food, people and products in a way that creates compelling stories that evoke feelings of nostalgia from the viewer.

Holly is a natural light photographer and mentor who lives with her husband and 3 daughters in Michigan. Her style lies somewhere in a gray area between lifestyle and fine art photography.  She is drawn to capturing authentic emotion with brilliant light and thoughtful compositions. She loves using rich colors and light in creative ways to shape her subjects and create a mood. Holly shoots with a Nikon Z6, and a variety of prime and Lensbaby Lenses.

Hope is a hobbyist photographer, wife, boy mom of 2, fur mom of 1, lover of horror movies and dancing at concerts. She loves to photograph the lives of her two young boys as they naturally unfold and mostly shoots lifestyle and documentary images. Her work is also sprinkled with portraits, self-portraits, macro, abstract and street photography.

Jacki Spearly has been an avid nature photographer from an early age. As a teen with her 35mm Konica, she developed a keen interest in photographing places she traveled and scenes in and around her hometown of State College, PA. She continued her studies in photography at Penn State where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Art Ed.

Years later she picked up her first Nikon DSLR camera and continued to hone her craft, learning new ways to see, shoot and edit in this digital medium. Her goal is to convey emotion into the images she creates so that the viewer can relate to her experiences.
Jacki is very active in her local photography club, The Lehigh Valley Photography Club and has served on the Board of Directors as Activities and Training Director for several years. She stepped down in June 2022 and currently leads the Lensbaby Project Group, as well as participating in the Abstract Project Group.

Jacki loves shooting with her collection of creative Lensbaby Lenses and was named a Lensbaby Ambassador in July of 2020. In addition to Beta-testing new Lensbaby products, she continues to love and promote the Lensbaby line as an Ambassador.

Jamie Konarski Davidson is an award-winning freelance outdoor & nature photographer with a passion for capturing and sharing the intimate moments and beauty of the natural world on its own and as it blends with the "rest of the world." Her images range from macro and abstracts to intimate, grand and rural landscapes. She connects with all things "old" and finds a special beauty in decay and fading cultural lifestyles that resonate a life of hard work. Jamie is enamored with flowers of all kinds. In fact, if someone told her she could only photograph one subject for the rest of her life, it would be flowers. Her interpretive style reflects that "love" of the blooms along with an intentional approach. Through her company, New Life Photos, Jamie leads photo workshops, teaches and presents at conferences and other events. Her goals as an instructor are to encourage and inspire people to grow in their photography skills and discover their own visual voice.

Jan is a Canadian photographer, originally from Scotland. She lives on a farm in beautiful Haldimand County, Ontario near the shores of Lake Erie.  The places she has lived and the people in her life, have inspired her to follow her dreams and pursue her love of photography.

Janet is a photographer and texture creator living in the North West of England and loves to shoot still life, creative landscapes, and the occasional portrait. She is inspired to celebrate the often unnoticed beauty in the ordinary things that surround us through her photography and shoots mostly with Lensbaby products and vintage lenses. She finds that manual focus forces her to slow down and connect with her subject and Lensbaby lenses and optics help her to express herself creatively.