Lensbaby lenses create optically beautiful soft focus and glowing painterly effects with minimal processing. This encourages a more spontaneous and immediate approach to photography where the in camera image is already in synch with my vision in the present moment. This is very welcome in this day and age where many images are the function of much technical planning and pre-visualization of post processing requirements. This latter approach is so far removed from one's flashes of perception and immediate experience of the scene that often all spontaneity is lost. With a lensbaby I can approach nature and the landscape more with a beginners mind, in others words with the eyes of a child which I find very refreshing.