I have a new favorite toy that is going to the top of my wish list for mother's day. My friend Joe lent me his Lensbaby to "try before I buy" and is that thing fun. First, it is hard core. The apertures are set with disks in the lens itself and there is no metering to be had at all. Totally manual in every sense of the word. In a nutshell, it has a bendable barrel that is the lens barrel and you squish it around to "bend" the light going into the camera. The net result is a small focal point and the rest of the image has a very impressionistic look to it.

Of course, my Peter is always game ... I think it came out kind of cool.