Stuck in Customs……
Sorry about that Trey! Actually I’m stuck in Berea, Kentucky at the Fairfield Inn! Actually Sherelene is the Nurse Practitioner at the Baptist Health Express Care Center and we could see y yesterday that this weather system was going to trap her here, so I came up and will stay with her until this weather passes through. We have 6 inches of snow now, and are predicted to get 18 inches! For us that is a big snow! *(Stop snickering Bill Pekala!) Snow and bad weather is all relative! In Minnesota this would be called a break in the weather!
So I’m setting up office in my room here for a few days. I have some things I wanted to share so here goes:
(1) You asked for it and it’s coming. The Fuji X-System Guide Part II is on the way. I will go deeply into the Firmware updates for the X-T1 and X-E2. I have a lot of new info about how to do hassle free HDR bracketing. I have ton of new tips about getting the most of the X-T1. I also want to do a full test of the new and very spectacular 50-140 f 2.8 zoom and info on upcoming products from Fuji. Hope to have that out in the next few weeks! Since it is a major update it will be value priced at $4.95!
(2) A future His Light Tour! I’m scouting Route 66 and hope to offer a tour of the section between Albuquerque and Las Vegas to include day in Nelson Ghost Town! This section of the Mother Road is filled with great photo pops and I think it would be a great week long tour. I will post images in March when I scout the area, stay tuned, but my bet is it will be on the 2016 schedule!
(3) A reminder that we still have openings in two upcoming workshops. March 20-21, Jack and I still have a few openings for Nelson Ghost Town just outside of Las Vegas Nevada. this is Americana treasure trove! Contact Jack at: jackgrahamphoto.com His Light’s April 8-12 Workshop at Memory Lane in Rogersville, Tennessee (near Kingsport) is a trip back to the fifties in a killer re-bult town. Finally Fred Sisson and I will hold a Americana workshop in Roanoke, Virgina April 29 to May 3rd. We will visit the amazing Winston O. Link Museum the legendary train photographer of the 1960’s, we will visit and and photograph the Transportation Museum of Virginia and shoot countless great Americana subjects in Old Roanoke! And Jack and I w ill return to Grandfather Mountain and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Spring, May 27-31. This is one of my favorite locations in the east, consider joining us!
(4) Will Canon’s current lenses support 50 mega pixels? When Nikon released the 36 mega pixel D800 back when I worked for Nikon, a number of lens updates came along with the new camera. I am sure that Nikon knew that the lenses for the D800 had to b able to keep up with that resolution. I am wondering out loud how Canon plans to deal with tis dilemma. It is an optical fact of life that the more resolution we attempt to use the more demanding it is on the glass. I will be interested in seeing how this in handled. As the new Canon is released, I imagine you will see more and more on this subject.
Well that covers it for now, be safe, and I hope you are warm wherever you are!!!!!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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Funny…just came back from Minneapolis. This winter in Minnesota there’s less snow than last year when She Who Must Be Obeyed and I spent two months there caring for our daughter after transplant surgery! I realize the free breakfast may be enticing (and I sure hope the Berea Fairfield Inn is better than the one we’ve stayed at in Corbin) but it’s darn near sinful for you both to be there and not spending some time at the Boone Tavern, even if just for lunch or dinner! Consider it wife insurance. You might find some of your Americana stuff around Old Town and the old depot. Have fun!
Yeah, Fairfields are not deluxe, but this one is new and pretty clean and booked solid with all the stranded travelers! I doubt we could get to downtown right now have now over a foot of snow, but great idea!
I stayed in that same exact hotel in Oct when I attended Mountain Workshops there in Berea. That italian place across the road has great food, hope they are open! Sorry though, no cheeseburgers.
I’ll try it!
Bill, I did the entirety of Route 66 in the spring of 2013. I can highly recommend the trip. We started in downtown Chicago and ended on the Santa Monica Pier. We took 13 days to do it and that really was not enough time. We used a couple of mile-by-mile guides that gave us a lot of information that otherwise we wouldn’t have known.
I made about 1500 images with both my Nikon D800E and my Olympus E-M5. I kept my gear to a minimum and was really trying out the M4/3 gear and assessing whether or not it could be a viable substitute for the larger format.
One of the things I learned early on the road trip was that Route 66 was rerouted several times through many of the towns to accommodate businesses and such. We tried to follow the route with the most Americana.
There is a lot to photograph in Tucumcari, NM, east of Albuquerque. I highly recommend starting there and then heading west. Like Rick Sammon, I, too, photographed the Blue Swallow Motel early in the morning. It is a unique property with a “garage” for each motel room! There are several other vintage motels as well as vintage signs where hotels used to be in Tucumcari.
I enjoyed my first trip so much that I did the Tulsa to Flagstaff portion again last fall.
If I can be of help, don’t hesitate to ask. I’m always more than happy to help others.
Dennis Mook
Newport News, VA
I’m Asking!!!!!!!!!!! Shoot me an email with your number and I will call you late this week when I get back from the Snow Prison!! billfortney@earthlink.net
Thanks Dennis, very kind of you!!!
Here a foot of snow means one day of mess and another day of cleanup after the first round opening the roads. But I digress.
I got you a Route 66 route guide (there are many but this is a seminal one) and the good folks at Amazon will deliver it to your home…weather permitting.
You’re too kind, Dick, I owe you one!
Good Luck with the temporary office. I’m sure you’ll get some work done if you are not too distracted by the snow and go out searching to photographs to make.
I need to proof read more carefully. That should be “Good Luck with the temporary office. I’m sure you’ll get some work done if you are not too distracted by the snow and go out searching for photographs to make.”
Hope to tomorrow, was a white out all yesterday!
If you read my blog, you know proof reading is not a big deal here!
Here today it is colder than a sorceress’ mammary appendages in a retention, suspension and support device for women manufactured out of a silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 50.
Bill: I think you may have an extended stay in Berea:
…WINTER STORM WARNING THIS EVENING THROUGH MUCH OF SATURDAY…
.SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW…SLEET AND ICE ARE POSSIBLE
FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH MUCH OF SATURDAY. THE FORECASTS WILL CHANGE
AS THE STORM APPROACHES…KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST
INFORMATION.
Don’t know how to react to this one: gave my daughter a ticket to Jacksonville to see one of her high school friends. It’s 38 degrees there today. ( I’m going to balmy San Francisco this afternoon: 54.)