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Can I earn any certifications with Lenspiration training?
Lenspiration is a self-guided online photography platform, not an accredited photography school offering degrees and certifications. However, completion of Lenspiration's Photography Program will provide you with a physical record of your work that may be useful in pursuing recognized certification or higher education.
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New blog post! It`s only July, and all of my photos for the 2026 Calendar Survey are finished! The survey is now ready and waiting to receive your coveted opinion! Click here to let me know which of these 37 photographs are your favorites! Read more at link in bio.
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New blog post! I`ve been building the Lenspiration Scouting Guide over the years. After photographing some place, I`ll add what I learned about that location to the map when I have time. Now, I`ve been adding locations for a while now, but it doesn`t just have to be me. Anyone can add locations to the Scouting Guide! And that`s the purpose of this month`s photo assignment. . . Read more at link in bio.
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New blog post! When we left the breathtaking beauty of that unexpected golden hour in Cades Cove, it took me a while to mentally switch into convention mode. I arrived at the loading dock at the Teach Them Diligently homeschool convention with my brain reeling from the realization that I would be speaking to a class of students in just a few hours . . . Read more at link in bio.
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New blog post! The light from my headlamp illuminated the canopy of forest surrounding the deserted path stretching out in front of me. The pitch black darkness beyond was deep and impenetrable... Read more at link in bio.
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Really enjoyed stopping at a State Park yesterday while driving home from the @heav_va Convention! Only could hike for about half an hour but we did find this enchanted little clearing beside the trail. 📷 @wvstateparks
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New blog post! Being on the road for most of the month of May, there wasn`t enough time to create a video to demonstrate how to shoot the next Shoot to Serve photo assignment. However, I did take some great photos for it! Having spent some time with Julianna`s family this week, it wasn`t hard to ask her and a couple of her siblings to pose for me as they were going about filling special niches in life... Read more at link in bio.
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Finally got around to editing photos from the CAPTURE Maine photography workshop! God gave us incredible weather!
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Just one week to go till we EXPLORE The Susquehanna! 📸 With the specific moments of sunset and sunrise as our only hard deadlines, and with capturing the colorful, spring beauty of scenic spots along the Susquehanna River as our main objective, we will let the particulars of each location and the elements of nature dictate exactly what our schedule will be for the evening and morning and we are together.
✅ Register at link in bio!
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Do you know how to capture the silky water effect? Drop a "yes" or "no" in the comments!
This is one of the topics we`ll be covering during EXPLORE The Susquehanna on June 3-4! It`ll be a more relaxed format than a full photography workshop, but still gives you the opportunity to take pictures with me, pick my brain on any photography topic, hone skills in landscape & nature photography, and fellowship with other Christian photographers.
📸 Details at link in bio.
📸 Price: $199/photographer for full experience or $99/photographer for a half day. Lenspiration members get 50% off! 🥳
📸 Enter to win $25 discount. Details in previous post. Deadline is May 23 at 11:59 PM EDT.
If you know any other folks in PA or northern VA who might be interested in this opportunity, tap the share button and send them the info!
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Wow! The beehive hike in @acadianps was so much fun! Great for photography with the mist blowing off the ocean. May was a good time to be there, with colors being all springy like, and the black flies not too bad yet.
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Are you a photographer who enjoys taking photos in the beautiful outdoors? Join me for a day (or half a day) exploring and photographing this EPIC location in pursuit of calendar-worthy nature, wildlife, and landscape photos!
📍 Susquehanna Pinnacle Overlook, near HoltwoodPennsylvania
📅 June 3 - 4, 2025
📸 $199/full day OR $99/half day (Lenspiration Members get 50% off!)
****If you or a friend are interested in coming, enter to win a $25 discount!****
1. Follow @lenspirationphoto
2. Tag a friend in the comments (each tag counts as a separate entry!)
3. Share this post to your story and tag me @lenspirationphoto so I can see it!
Giveaway closes at 11:59 PM EDT on May 23.
Details at link in bio!
Want to get an automatic 50% off? Join the Lenspiration Membership at lenspiration.com/join!
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CAPTURE Maine photography workshop is going so well!! Today is the 2nd and final day. Lots of photos to sort and edit!
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New blog post! Have you ever played the game, "Fortunately, Unfortunately"? Well, I recently had a landscape photography experience at Cades Cove in Tennessee that made me feel like I was living out one of those stories! And at first, I wasn`t laughing. Read more at link in bio.
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Because vehicles are not allowed into the cove before sunrise, I had to hike in before light and hope the rainey forecast wouldn`t interfere...and it didn`t praise the Lord!
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If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know that I love landscape photography. Who couldn’t?! 😉 God has created this world with so much beauty, and despite the curse of sin that we live with since Adam and Eve (see Genesis 3), His glory is still so richly manifest in His creation.
But as much as I love taking landscape pictures, it’s even better when I get to do it with other photographers! 📸
And that’s why I’m so excited about the upcoming photography workshops that will be landscape-based. CAPTURE Maine is happening this week, May 16-17. Spots have been filling up but we still have space for a few more photographers! So, get the details and register at the link in bio!
If you`re not from Maine but want to get notifications on where I`ll be traveling this year, comment UPDATES to sign up for emails about workshops! 👇
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What better place to learn photography than in the classroom of creation? Hope you can join me in Maine on May 16-17 for CAPTURE Maine!
As a photographer, in what areas would you like to grow? Drop your answers in the comments!
A) Shooting in Manual
B) Lighting
C) Composition
D) Post-processing workflow
E) Other
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New blog post! On the heels of April`s early-rising Shoot to Serve assignment comes another assignment that just might have you getting out early as well! 5 distinct categories of birds are mentioned in the Bible, and this month, our goal is to capture a quality photo of a bird from each of those five categories . . . Read more at link in bio.
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A neat example of Secendary Color Scheme, a combination of secondary hues, in this case, orange and green, photographed last October in the wilderness of Itasca State Park, MN.
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