Daily Archives: June 23, 2014

Photo by Doug Haines

 

What a great two weeks!!!  I really love teaching with Jack and his two groups were great people, eager to learn, and they produced wonderful images!  Jack is a great shooter, teacher, and workshop leader, it i is always an honor to work with him.  We not only had some wonderful people to trench, I son’ think I can ever remember two weeks straight of near perfect conditions.  When we needed rain we got it, when we needed it to stoop it did, when we got to the Palouse, we need nice clouds and blue skies, got it!!!!  All of this led to great conditions for our students and ourselves!  I rarely get many good images while teaching but this was my most productive trip to these two locations.  I even got enough rest to live through the experience!!!  Here are some of my favorites with comments!  First a little technical note.  I’ve been using a number of Nikon manual focus lenses with the X-T1 and with focus peaking am finding they work great!  Currently, the longest lens from Fuji is a 200mm end of the 55-200 zoom, which is a 300 mm equivalent.  On this trip I used a Nikkor 300mm f 4.5 IF-ED manual focus model from back in the 80’s!  I’ll feature those images first, and I think you’ll agree, it works great on the X-T1!!

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of portraits of my buddies Doug and Rick shooting in the field!

 

 

 

A big part of shooting the Palouse is capturing the  many wonderful barns!  Here are a few!

 

 

 

 

More wonderful fields of wheat!  (300mm again!!!)

 

 

 

 

 

Even the stuff on barn sides can make great monochrome images!

 

 

 

Thanks Jack, and all the attendees of these two workshops, you helped me have a great time, sure hope you did too!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

A few more!