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Thank you all for your advice and help! @Ezra and @Ernest thank you for the advice to use the “best offer” feature. I was able to find the lens I was looking for for a decent price on Robert’s Camera online eBay store. I used the best offer feature and got almost $80 off the list price. Praise the Lord.
Thank you also @Ethan for your advice and for the picture that allowed me to get a better idea of what the lens would look like on my camera.
Thank you James for that helpful perspective. That is a good approach of “what is wrong with this photo and how can I fix it”. Sometimes when I go to edit a photo its easy for me to get overwhelmed with the endless possibilities of what could be done to it but if I just take this simple technique of fixing what is wrong with a photo that I took it makes the process more straightforward.
Thank you Joshua for creating a helpful summation of the things to think about when you go to edit your photos!
I appreciate the idea of the verse pics as I believe it’s helpful for folks to keep the Lord’s Word before their face and meditate on it. I haven’t submitted pictures for this before but these verses in 2 Corinthians 5 have meant so much to me that I thought I would submit some pictures.
The first picture was one that I took years ago before I really knew much of anything about photography (I borrowed someone’s camera to take the picture.) I actually took the picture with verse 17 of 2 Corinthians 5 in mind. The picture is of an empty cocoon and you can see a butterfly “flying” away in the background. The cocoon is not in as sharp focus as I would like but when I was taking this shot I knew very little about photography and I still have a lot to learn.
The cocoon pictures old things being passed away and the butterfly pictures all things being new. The butterfly is not really an improved catapulter but rather it is a new creature. It’s the same way for us as believers. God’s goal is not to improve us or make us better but rather His desire is to take us by way of the cross and make us brand new! We become the righteousness of God IN Him! Hallelujah!
The other picture was one I took as I walked by a cornfield in Gettysburg. The stalks were harvested and the field had a bunch of broken brown stalks. But then in this brown field there was these bright yellow corn kernels which represented the new life that would come in the spring after the kernels fall into the ground and die. The stark contrast between the yellow corn and the brown dirt caught my eye and so I snapped a picture of it. I also thought the little green plant that appears to be sprouting in the background pictures new life. The way to new life for the believer is through death.
Thank you all for using photography to help people mediate on the Word!
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