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<p class="gutenify-section-2402b8a0-f9e1-11ee-8569-970eb7e0cb6b">We were visiting family again earlier this week, and, as always, I brought my camera along. I had a new lens, the Sigma 12-24 f.4 Art lens. This lens has a very wide angle of view, and is great for landscape images. I also brought another relatively new lens, the Lensbaby Soft-Focus II. Lensbaby lenses let the user choose where the sharp part of the image will be. I have three of these lenses now. Along with the Soft-Focus II, I have the Velvet 56 and the Spark. The last of these, the Spark, is the most difficult to use, but in some ways the most rewarding.</p>
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<p class="gutenify-section-dc0a0d10-f9e4-11ee-abf4-6f688a72af40">We had a birthday to celebrate (my daughter's), and a game of Apples to Apples that was played, and the images made story-telling easy. For example, guess who won this game?</p>
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<p class="gutenify-section-c4a98dd0-f9e4-11ee-abf4-6f688a72af40">For more of these family shots with selective focus, go here.</p>
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