Tag Archives: Photography

Exploring Interesting Textures

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It shouldn’t be hard to find Interesting Textures everywhere you go, even in places you’ve never explored before! As you just saw, I took lots of texture pictures. I thought I had done a pretty good job. However, it wasn’t until after I put them on the computer and started sorting through them that I […]

On Assignment: A Peaceful Scene

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This was a tough photo shoot to bring you along on! Taking video at night is quite the challenge. And that hillside! It is literally a field of thorns. But come now! Let me take you behind the scenes, and show you how that epic, pre-dawn trek unfolded! That was such an amazing photo shoot! […]

Searching for Perfect Order in Nature!

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According to the details for the current assignment, perfect order in nature could also mean perfect order in man-made landscapes, so off I went looking for symmetrical gardens and manicured lawns at the closest botanical garden I could find! Oh what a surprise I was in for! It was different being on a time-crunch too. […]

On Assignment: Go Forward!

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When I read the details for this month’s Lenspiration photo assignment, I thought “Hey, this is going to be easy; I have plenty of brothers to use as models, it’s a bright sunny day, and I know exactly where to shoot it!” Well, as usual, it didn’t exactly turn out as expected. . . . […]

On Assignment: In The Danger Zone

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It’s time to take some pictures for the missionaries in Europe again! This time, we’re going for a spring-time theme. And illustrating Psalm 119:103, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” If you decide to go out and take pictures of honey bees like I did, beware. […]

Where We Took Pictures During CAPTURE Vermont

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Last weekend concluded Lenspiration’s CAPTURE Vermont landscape photography workshop! During the scouting excursions before the workshop began, I found it difficult to find great spots for a large group of photographers to stop and explore. New England is captured best one pull off at a time. However, I was able to find a few places […]

Capturing Beauty Close to Home

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A photographer friend of mine here in West Virginia has really encouraged me get out and see more of the natural beauty close to home. Just a short while ago, we went out to shoot at Valley Falls State Park, West Virginia. It was only an hour’s drive away but I had never been there […]

A Simple Answer To a Difficult Question

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Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here on the Staddon Family blog! I always find myself writing specifically for photographers on my own blog at Lenspiration.com but I thought this particular concept could relate just as well to just about anybody learning just about anything! So, here goes . . . There’s […]

Learning Photography at HEAV

Had a great time at the Home Educators Association of Virginia Convention last weekend! There were a ton of things we were assigned to take pictures of at a convention of over 12,500 attendees, but with a team of 9 other photographers on the Photography Team, we had it covered! The Lord also gave opportunity […]