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Yesterday I completed the task of reviewing over 56,000 slides, or 5,600 pages with 20 slides per page.  I trashed 198 lbs,, which is 39,600 images and kept 16,500 slides!  In the week it took to go through all these imagews I relived the first 40 years of my career and it was unbelievable!  I found a lot wonderful images from the past like the young Jack Graham above!!!!!

 

 

How about the wonderful image of a young Wesley and Catherine, how I miss him, and how much I love her!

 

 

How my beautiful bride gets better looking every year, and every year I wonder more and more how on earth I got her to marry me!?

 

 

I also found one of my favorite travel shots from a trip Sherelene and I did to Mexico some years ago!

 

 

This one goes way back, that’s my oldest son Scott, imthe red shiort,  playing in what someday would be our front yard as they were building our home in Corbin, where we have now lived for 42 years!

 

 

One of my fvorite photos of all time of Catherine holding our new puppy, B.J. named after singer B.J. Thomas, a dear friend of Sherelene’s mine!

 

 

Lastly a shot of Wes and I in the field together, God has blessed me with a wonderful life nand has prepared and promised an incredible next life for me too!  Thank you Lord!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

 

 

 

How does this settle who is right on the myriad of political disagreements we have with one another???!!!  Simple, once you have admitted you are a sinner and asked with true repentance, (sincere regret and remorse), He through the Word and the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth.  It starts with self examination, turning to Him for forgiveness, and then the offering of Grace, (unmerited favor), to your fellow man.

 

 

We can’t go on like this, filled with hate, resentment, unforgiveness, and hostility toward one another.  Any voice that tells you, other wise is leading you astray. Letting those emotions rule us will only lead to terrible things.

 

 

I found another sign that, while not sophisitcated and pristine, it speaks the most powerful truth, that we all need to hear and act upon!  As we are just past the Chrismtas Season, may we allow God to change our hearts, and may we let Him bring Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men.  I’m ready for His better way!

 

 

 

 

I pray that you will ask God to reveal to you His truth, the only truth that matters.

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

 

This will be a short review of Fujifilm’s newest camera, the Fujifilm X-S10.  I just had a great gathering of friends in the Great Smokies last week and at the last minute called my contact at Fujifilm and asked if we might could get one of these new cameras to show it around.  Let me be clear, I had no real inerest in the camera, I have a pair of X-H1 bodies that are my two main bodies when I go out to do serious work. I have an X100V for travel and casual work and that was all I needed.

 

I promised to shoot some images for Fujifilm’s use so I set up the camera with the custom functions I needed, (below), and proceeded to shoot with it for the next five days.  * NOTE:  THIS IS A PRE-PRODUCTION SAMPLE CAMERA WITHOUT THE LATRST FIRMWARE.

 

 

 

I put a universal L bracket on it so I could shoot from a tripod and give it a fair chance!  In a very short time I fell in love with this little gem!  Let me tell you why I found it so compelling!

 

1.  The grip is very much like the X-H1 which is my favorite of all the X series Fujifilm cameras.

2.  The shutter release is in the identical position as the X-H1 and has the same very soft touch!

3.  The Shutter is very quiet, again just like the X-H1!

4  Like the X-T4 and the X-T3 it has the same 26 megapixel, back light illuminated sensor and the same X4 processor!

5.  Like the X-H1 and the X-T4 it offers 5 way image stabilization that works fantastic when shooting handheld!

6.  Instead of an exposure compensation dail and a ISO selection dial it has two rotary dials that you can set for any funtion you desire.  I set the sample camera up that Fujifilm sent me with the right dial as the compensation dial and the left dial for setting ISO, jsut like on an X-T3 or X-T4.

7.  For those intersted in video, this camera has very high end specs and makes wonderful video files!

 

I found the autofocus to be great, the fold out LCD panel while slightly lower resolution than the X-T3 or X-T4 was still more than adequate and worked great.

Same with the viewfinder it was slightly lower resoluton but if never affected my image making.

 

 

All in all, I really love this little camera.  It is super capable and at a price of just under $1,000. for the body only, it is a remarkable value. The fact that if feels and operates so much like the X-H1s I use, it will be a natural for carrying around!  When mated with the 16 f 2.8. 23 f 2, 35 f 2 and the 50 f 2 Fujicrons, (my term not Fujifilm’s),  it makes a wonderfully small and capable package!

 

 

So  the camera that was not of much interest to me, is soon to have a place in my kit!!!!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

* NOTE:  THIS IS A PRE-PRODUCTION SAMPLE CAMERA WITHOUT THE LATRST FIRMWARE.

 

All images with the Fujifim X-S10 and the XF 16-80 f 4 mid range zoom, except the mist rising from the mountains, that was made with the XF 100-400 f 4.5-5.6.

 

 

 

 

 

This is why I’m glad I own a Fujinon 100-400 zoom!  Shot throguh glass at 400mm (600 mm equiv.),  1/125th of a second, wide open, hand held!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim