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	<title>Lenspiration | Benjamin Holmes | Mentions</title>
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				<title>Ruth replied to the topic VersePic: Thanksgiving Background in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/versepic-thanksgiving-background/page/2/#post-46023</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:05:44 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I just found this other picture of the fall foliage.</p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic VersePic: Thanksgiving Background in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/versepic-thanksgiving-background/page/2/#post-45867</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:54:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And oh, good decision, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/elmullet/" rel="nofollow ugc">@elmullet</a>, to submit your photos here on the forum as JPG even though you were unable to figure out a way to submit a DNG version. </p>
<p>If <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> needs a higher resolution version than the ones you submitted, then I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll reach out to you to help you figure out how to do that. </p>
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				<title>Blessings Captured replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37558</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:21:56 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>.  I understand now!<br />
How does this look?</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37386</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:08:35 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for all the time you put into this challenge, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! It&#8217;s exciting that you chose mine as winner! 🙂 </p>
<p>Everyone else did such a wonderful job! It was fun to see everyone&#8217;s designs get better as they got critique and fun to see the different designs everyone came up with using the same verse! I&#8217;m looking forward to the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-10358"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37386" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37385</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:39:42 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks again for the critique, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! It&#8217;s been very insightful.</p>
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				<title>Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37239</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 01:08:12 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> Thank you for your advice! I will definitely keep all that you said in mind!</p>
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				<title>Morgan Giesbrecht replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37118</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:44:47 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a></p>
<p>Thank you for the feedback, Ben!</p>
<p>Being new to wallpaper design myself, your comments have given me a lot to think about and apply (as best I can). Since I took this photo last fall, I can’t remeber why I didn’t utilize f/11-22 when I was taking the picture. It may have been that it was too cold and I was in a hurry or I m&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-10296"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/3/#post-37118" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37110</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 02:23:29 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! Thanks for all the tips and encouragement, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! It&#8217;s been so helpful to read through your thoughts about everyone&#8217;s verspics.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve &#8216;updated&#8217; the original verspics I made implementing your suggestions. Hopefully they&#8217;re a bit better now! That&#8217;s funny that you mentioned that I should do a stronger overlay on &#8216;Mountain&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-10293"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37110" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37095</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:20:10 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! This is really good.</p>
<p><strong>D1</strong><br />
I hadn’t thought about cropping in so it would be centered. I had originally wanted to utilize the space to the right for where the verse was going to be, but then I felt like there was equal pull between the tunnel and the verse, and my eyes didn’t know what was more important. So tha&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-10289"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37095" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Morgan Giesbrecht replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37069</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:29:17 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>,</p>
<p>Thank you for putting together this opportunity for us!</p>
<p>Here is what I came up with using a photo from my archive&#8230;</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/page/2/#post-37038</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 02:40:53 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for taking the time to run this competition, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! Here are the verspics that I made. Looking forward to hearing any critique or tips that will help us create better verspics. 🙂</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/#post-36361</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:36:42 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> &#8211; Do we have to use the whole verse or could we use just a portion? 🙂</p>
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				<title>Logan Lamar replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/proverbs-35-6-vp-challenge-ends-february-14th/#post-36288</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 22:26:13 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, good to see you back out! I might have to try shooting for this verse!</p>
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				<title>Ezra Morley replied to the topic How to get words to shine through better in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-words-to-shine-through-better/#post-36174</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:35:46 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some excellent advice here already! I&#8217;ll just add my 2 cents&#8230; 🙂</p>
<p>When a shadow or a &#8220;glow&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make the text stand out enough, you need to get a little more drastic. Think about it; what you&#8217;re really looking for is <strong>contrast.</strong> If you can&#8217;t read the text, it&#8217;s simply because your eyes are having a hard time picking it out from its&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-10061"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-words-to-shine-through-better/#post-36174" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/3/#post-33604</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:28:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good news, guys! <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> said that he would be available to continue posting assignments for us while he&#8217;s away! They wouldn&#8217;t be as intense or involved as the VersePics, but it would allow us some more freedom in what pictures we use. It would work something like this:</p>
<p>1. Ben will choose a verse and post it here on STS<br />
2.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-9280"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/3/#post-33604" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33444</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:43:17 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>What do you think about this?</p></blockquote>
<p>I like the idea too! <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, would you be able to post the verses, monitor the submissions and choose winners like a normal VersePic?  </p>
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				<title>Logan Lamar replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33378</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:55:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>
did you intend to suggest a contest of sorts between us “lenspirationers” to see who could produce the best photo with a Scripture verse added? If so, I think it’s a great idea.(Especially because I have a few photos of the sort hibernating on backup drives that I haven’t done much with &#x1f61b; .)
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<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/theodore/" rel="nofollow ugc">@theodore</a> <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/elianafranzenburg/" rel="nofollow ugc">@elianafranzenburg</a> <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-9199"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33378" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33356</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:49:02 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Lenspiration hasn’t been sending me notification emails for some reason</p></blockquote>
<p>Did you get this resolved <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>?</p>
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				<title>Logan Lamar replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33300</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:32:12 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, it’s a bit sad that this is the last VP for a while! Would you consider opening up another opportunity (perhaps a contest) for us “lenspirationers” to submit our own VersePics, though this year?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />
Logan</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33266</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 23:39:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, Here are the photos that I submitted the other day via the DropBox link. Hopefully they came through. </p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/page/2/#post-33237</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 01:31:20 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glad to hear that, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>!</p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/#post-33231</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:20:24 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I submitted the above pics to the dropbox link but didn&#8217;t receive a confirmation email from them. So let me know if they didn&#8217;t come through or if it worked all right.</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/#post-33210</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:11:59 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! I accidentally left this to the last minute, so I didn&#8217;t have a chance to do the cool things I would&#8217;ve liked to try. 🙁 But, I didn&#8217;t want to miss out on doing the last one of the year. lol. So, even though they aren&#8217;t my best &#8211; here&#8217;s what I come up with! I&#8217;ve submitted my photos via the DropBox link. Hopefully you&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-9113"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/#post-33210" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Josiah Waldner replied to the topic Proverbs 27:17 VPO: Friendship (ends Aug 31) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/friendship/#post-33094</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:10:42 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here at a few I shot to represent the concept of iron sharpening iron.<br />
<a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I was unable to open your dropbox link to submit the raw files- here are small jpgs.</p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Ezra 8:22-23 VPO: Seeking after God (ends August 1) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/devotional-path/page/2/#post-32515</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:14:53 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I just uploaded the unedited copies of each of the guy and girl photos to the Dropbox link. 🙂</p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Ezra 8:22-23 VPO: Seeking after God (ends August 1) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:41:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a></p>
<blockquote><p>why there is a dark cloud around the girl in all of the photos?</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh you&#8217;re right! Pretty sure it&#8217;s in the editing. The program I&#8217;m using right now has very basic editing capabilities, and only does global adjustments, so I think it&#8217;s something about how it&#8217;s reading the lighting and shadows in the scene, therefore got&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8876"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/devotional-path/page/2/#post-32480" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 19:46:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I did take a bunch of photos in continuous mode; here are the closest up and the farthest away I have for each. I have ones in between too, if you want. I didn&#8217;t know how close you might like the person to be, but if you would like to see them closer to the camera, we could go back to the trail and do that 🙂 </p>
<p>Here are&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8867"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/devotional-path/#post-32458" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Ezra 8:22-23 VPO: Seeking after God (ends August 1) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/devotional-path/#post-32347</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:49:54 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, I am still a bit unsure of how you crop the pictures for VersePics. Could you clarify that please? If I can keep that in mind as I&#8217;m taking pictures for the assignments, that will be helpful.</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic 1 Kings 3:9 VPO: Calm and Contemplative (ends June 16) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/page/2/#post-32145</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:27:52 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! </p>
<p>So you cloned out other parts of the picture and put them on the black bar area to make it look like it was there? How did you get it look so realistic?</p>
<p>Oh right! So the sunburst is a sunburst. Phew! That makes more sense. 🙂 </p>
<p>I remembered one more question. . . With the picture you actually ended up using, do&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8692"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/page/2/#post-32145" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic 1 Kings 3:9 VPO: Calm and Contemplative (ends June 16) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:50:59 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks again <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the replay for those in The Click: <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar071118/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar071118/</a></p>
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				<title>Josiah Waldner replied to the topic 1 Kings 3:9 VPO: Calm and Contemplative (ends June 16) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/page/2/#post-32089</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:47:00 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, You were totally right in assuming that the black bar on the right was painted on- it was my idea of a person looking out over the ocean from a window. I more or less threw it out as a concept, to see if that was what you were looking for. Thank you for your insight!</p>
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				<title>Caitlin Compton replied to the topic 1 Kings 3:9 VPO: Calm and Contemplative (ends June 16) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/page/2/#post-32042</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:00:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bennett-family/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bennett-family</a> for getting your picture chosen. It’s a lovely verspic!</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time on the webinar to share with us the thoughts on those pictures and the process behind how you design them, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! It was really interesting hearing your perspective. I was wondering if you could explain in more d&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8650"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/page/2/#post-32042" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic 1 Kings 3:9 VPO: Calm and Contemplative (ends June 16) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/#post-31583</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:32:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is incredible, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bennett-family/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bennett-family</a>! This is exactly how I envisioned the Shoot to Serve assignments to work! What a beautiful time of day for photo shoot, right there at golden hour&#8230;.oh, it makes me want to go have devotions on the beach. And it&#8217;s neat how it is INDEED a family effort. Thank you, Bennett family for working together on that! I&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8410"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/1-kings-349-vpo-calm-and-contemplative-ends-june-16/#post-31583" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Website Critique in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/website-critique/#post-31086</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 19:36:38 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> that was exactly the kind of stuff I wanted to know!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/creative-click-photography/" rel="nofollow ugc">@creative-click-photography</a> Thank you!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/jamesstaddon/" rel="nofollow ugc">@jamesstaddon</a> I know, that is something I have been trying to fix but I can&#8217;t get it to work 😐   </p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 19:26:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> thank you! that really helps!</p>
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				<title>Joseph Camuso replied to the topic How would you edit this? in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 00:17:11 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing job, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! I always enjoy reading how other photographers and graphic designers get their finished product! Thanks for sharing that!</p>
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				<title>Logan Lamar replied to the topic Judges 6:14 VPO: Exploring Vistas (ends May 3) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/judges-614-vpo-exploring-vistas-ends-may-3/page/2/#post-30694</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 19:04:07 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>!</p>
<p>The images I uploaded were well over 1600 pixels wide, at least on my computer. The smallest ones (from a Cessna 172 with a *cough* point and shoot camera) were 3648 pixels wide, and the ones from the mountain top were 4435 pixels wide&#8230; </p>
<p>Maybe the forum uploader or my computer is downsizing them as they are&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8020"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/judges-614-vpo-exploring-vistas-ends-may-3/page/2/#post-30694" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Judges 6:14 VPO: Exploring Vistas (ends May 3) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/judges-614-vpo-exploring-vistas-ends-may-3/page/2/#post-30624</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 22:49:52 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are two pictures that I took a few years ago on a trip to visit my grandmother in Quebec. I had been hoping to get some pictures this week, but there just aren&#8217;t a ton of &#8220;vistas&#8221; in the Connecticut valley where I live and I didn&#8217;t have the time to travel and find one :/</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, fyi I didn&#8217;t crop the second picture very much&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7991"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/judges-614-vpo-exploring-vistas-ends-may-3/page/2/#post-30624" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Ryan Madaris replied to the topic Judges 6:14 VPO: Exploring Vistas (ends May 3) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/judges-614-vpo-exploring-vistas-ends-may-3/#post-30509</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:55:05 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, no problem. Thanks!</p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Photo editing? in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:56:26 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/dfrazer/" rel="nofollow ugc">@dfrazer</a>, I don&#8217;t think I have enough space on my computer to get ALL the programs. Thank you for taking the time to comment!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/jamesstaddon/" rel="nofollow ugc">@jamesstaddon</a> or <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, so just to clarify, if I was to get the one-time LR deal there would be no updates, correct?</p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic Joshua 1:9 VPO: Courage and Contrast (ends March 27) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
				<link>https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/courage-and-contrast/page/2/#post-30288</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:00:47 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very helpful, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>! Thank you for taking the time to explain your thoughts! Maybe you could use the crocus for a future VP. 🙂</p>
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				<title>Ryan Madaris replied to the topic Website Design in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:56:09 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, thank you for your time! It&#8217;s a big help! <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/dan-cope/" rel="nofollow ugc">@dan-cope</a>, thanks, I&#8217;ll look into that.</p>
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				<title>Ryan Madaris replied to the topic Website Design in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:54:43 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, thank you! I think that&#8217;s very good insight. I&#8217;ll work on updating the website over time.</p>
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				<title>David Frazer replied to the topic Website Design in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:41:46 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>+1 to <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> on saying that you need more text.  Your home page definitely needs more content &#8211; text and photos.</p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Photo editing? in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:06:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> Based on what you&#8217;re saying, Affinity is sounding like a pretty good deal. I haven&#8217;t decided on anything yet, but your comments have been really helpful; thanks so much for taking the time to lay things out simply! </p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic Joshua 1:9 VPO: Courage and Contrast (ends March 27) in the forum Shoot to Serve Assignments</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:46:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for participating everyone! It was very nice to have your input along the way, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>. I was holding off submitting any of my own photos because I really do have a very unfair advantage, being a full-time photographer and all, but as we approached the last few hours till the deadline and hearing how you weren&#8217;t exactly&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7807"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/courage-and-contrast/page/2/#post-30233" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Lyd-B replied to the topic Photo editing? in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:53:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, James for that info!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, you make a good point about thinking more long-term. Thanks!</p>
<p>So I don&#8217;t know how hard this will be to answer, but do you have suggestions for figuring out what program to get? There&#8217;s obviously a lot of info on different programs out there, but as I was beginning to read up on them, much of&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7784"><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/photo-editing-2/#post-30189" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a></span></p>
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				<title>Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Photo With Bible Verse in the forum Photo Critique</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:11:09 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/hannah/" rel="nofollow ugc">@hannah</a>, <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/jamesstaddon/" rel="nofollow ugc">@jamesstaddon</a> and <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/vince/" rel="nofollow ugc">@vince</a>  I really don&#8217;t know how/why the font is all caps, I use Photoshop Elements and sometimes it just decides it doesn&#8217;t want to work.<br />
<a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> Yes, it does make sense 🙂 Thank you for your edit of my photo. </p>
<p>Once I fix Photoshop I&#8217;ll redo it using your suggestions 🙂</p>
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				<title>James Staddon replied to the topic How To Create &#039;Versepics&#039;&#039; in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:27:07 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you SO MUCH <a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a> for sharing how you do this!</p>
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				<title>Ryan Madaris replied to the topic How To Create &#039;Versepics&#039;&#039; in the forum Photography Q&#038;A</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:25:21 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.lenspiration.com/members/bensharpeningcharacter/" rel="nofollow ugc">@bensharpeningcharacter</a>, thank you for your insight!</p>
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