Monthly Archives: May 2015
Sorry about that! When my wife got an email asking when my services would be held, I knew some of you thought I’d died!!!! Just been busy running workshop with a great group of folks! We’ve had greater conditions and enough rain and weather rot keep it interesting. Because of that rain the waterfalls and streams have been great!
This has been a great group and we’ve really missed Jack, but we have trudged on! This is our group!!!!
Once again sorry for not staying in better touch, will try my best to catch up this coming week!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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This entry was posted on Saturday, May 30th, 2015 at 2:49 pm
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I’m really looking forward to the workshop at Grandfather! It is a wonderful homecoming of me going back to,”the” mountain! I have such great memories of when Hugh Morton, the father of Grandfather was living and we had such great fellowship. Well, Hugh is in a better place, and I will be in a great place tomorrow. I’m sad that Jack Graham is not able to join us as he continues to get his detached retina returned to good health.
I will post from Grandfather the rest of the week!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 at 3:12 pm
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Image by George Flanagan
I am thrilled to offer this wonderful tribute to those brave men and women that sacrificed so much for our freedom. The slide show link below is to a great image show done by George Flanagan, an attendee of the Roanoke workshop, dear friend and brother. All these images were shot by George at the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA which was part of the Roanoke Event. We were allowed in for sunrise and the shooting opportunities were incredible. George has produced a moving show with his beautiful images. I know you will be touched and I wish all of you a blessed Memorial Day! The two links are for both Youtube and Vimeo.
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 at 3:10 pm
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It’s your fault! If you ever say you like something here, you’ll get more of it! This is my Memorial gift to all my faithful readers, all five of you!!!! So here goes!
Topic ONE: David Ober, thanks for your kind words, but more thanks to you today as we start the weekend that should be spent remembering our fallen heroes. I include you in my list of heroes, (not fallen, thank God), along with all the other men and women that have served as firemen, policemen, first responders, and of course our military heroes. It sickens me to see the way our protectors have been treated by the media to push a political agenda. In spite of this, you guys still show up every time we are in any kind of trouble and bail us out, never asking for thanks, and deserving more thanks than we could ever give. My hats off to you young man, and all those like you! *Note to all my readers, this Memorial Day find someone that serves you and say, ” Thank You!!!!”
Topic TWO: Here’s one for friends….. I got to visit with Wayne Bennett at my hotel for about and hour yesterday, it was great to catch up. Wayne and I go way back and we are only two weeks apart in age, so there was a lot of fun stuff to remember. I got to have a long conversation with Bill Pekala yesterday too, was great to just hear his voice, and then Bill Durance called me, another wonderful trip down memory lane! I tried to call Bryan Peterson but he was away form his phone, my point is I’m embarrassed at how often I have not kept in better touch with so many old friends. Yesterday, I guess was catch up day. I will try to do better, a lot of people have been so kind to me, I need to keep in better touch!! Thanks my friends, and you know who you are!
Topic THREE: Let’s take s moment to capture God’s glorious beauty and tun celebrate it! My good buddy Keith Thomas sent me an email to make me aware of a great event coming up June 27th the details are below! I plan to participate, hope you will join the thousands of others involved, details at this link:
<http://www.jointheapplause.com>
Topic FOUR: The reviews are in, and the new Fuji X-T10 is a hit! I had the chance to just handle it and make a few shots back a month ago in Phoenix and was very impressed. It is a scaled down X-T1 with few less features, but the same sensor! Same image quality and vastly improved autofocus system, ( which X-T1 users will get FREE with firmware update 4.0) in June. It is about 25% smaller and lighter but very well made. I can see it being a killer travel camera or trekking camera (for those of you that Trek!!!) If you don’t have a back up body for your X-E2 or X-T1 this is one to consider! I will be at the kick-off release party in Nashville mid June for this new camera. Will I buy one? Well, I asked that part of my compensation for that event be a black body!!!
Topic FIVE: More Fuji Stuff! If I can only afford a few lenses which should I buy? I’ve been getting this question a lot lately from people switching to Fuji with a starting budget hat does not allow going wild, so they ask which two or three are the best place to start? Here is my take on it. If you are assembling a System for for Nature/Outdoor and Landscape: I’d go 10-24, 18-55, 55-200 and the MCEX 11mm and 16mm auto extension tubes. A Travel System for me would be the 14mm f 2.8 and the 18-135 zoom. For people and street I’d go 23mm f 1.4, 35mm f1.4, and the 56mm f 1.2. Look for the special deal times, often Fuji offers rebates amounting to as much as 25% off. Lots of other combinations can work for you. If you are generalist and have the budget, the 10-24, 16-55 and 50-140 are among the best lenses, but more expensive and bigger and heavier. Hope that helps! O.K. one more how about a super compact lens set for the X-T10 (emphasis on smallest and lightest) How about the 18-55 and the 55-200!
Topic SIX: What will you think of in the last few moments of your life? I am pretty sure you won’t be thinking about getting more work done, acquiring another lens or body, the place you never got to photograph, or fixing a few things around the house. I bet you will wish you had more times with your wife or husband, your children and your friends. When I had cancer 35 years ago and wa told it was likely terminal, 3 to 5% chance of surviving, I know what I thought about! Unfortunately it was all the things I had been neglecting! It’s easy to get caught up in the things that scream to us that they are important, but they seldom are. the things we need to attend to first are things that are vital. Faith, family, friends. The three Fs. It’s easy to loose sight of that list, but when time starts to run out it’s where we turn. Why not do now? After all, the clock is ticking………
Gotta go, my family is coming later today! Enjoy yours this Memorial Day Weekend………….
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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This entry was posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 at 1:18 pm
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