A joy to be back on the mountain……

10 years, 6 months ago 8
Posted in: Pilgrim's Chronicles

 

It’s such a pleasure to be back on Grandfather and with such a great group!!  I have so many wonderful memories o this place and having  such a wonderful workshop group here just adds to the feelings!   We’ve had great conditions and expect to continue to work the area good tomorrow!

 

 

 

I even saw the old billboard I’m having great memories back, it made me feel great!!  I shot the photo of the river otter and the rest was the great folks of Grandfather!!!

 

 

 

Well as the Otter said, you otter be here!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

This entry was posted on Friday, May 30th, 2014 at 2:13 am

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8 Responses

  1. Susan in Columbus says:
    May 30, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    Wonderful to see the group and to hear you’re having a good time. Wishing you continued great conditions! Watch out for Miles and Jim H — they’re trouble! 😉

  2. Johnny says:
    May 30, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Bill,

    That is a great area or sure!,

    KEH is at Precision Camera here in Austin this weekend for their annual Spring Photo Expo
    and I will be selling my D600 and Nikon Lenses in order to move to
    mirrorless. My choice will be either the Olympus EM1 or the Fuji XT1.

    My question is what are you using to process your Fuji files?

    I have been reading about the complainers on DP Review griping about
    Lightroom’s lack of support for the Fuji RAW files so I wanted to ask
    someone whom I trusted and value his opinion.

    I find it hard that the likes of yourself and Tony Sweet would be using a
    camera that had support issues with Adobe software.

    Please chime in.

    • the pilgrim says:
      May 30, 2014 at 11:58 pm

      Johnny,
      First I shoot JPEG 99% of the time! Fuji’s JPEG are gorgeous! When I need to process RAW I use Iridient Developer, it does a great job, I suspect that full support will come from Adobe soon, as the Fuji X System is being adopted by a large group of well known pros!

  3. Dick Ginkowski says:
    May 31, 2014 at 4:28 am

    The bad news: missed you on the mountain. The good news: the mountain is still here. To answer Johnny, I do use Lightroom and Camera RAW with little or no difficulty. The Canon EOS profiles seem to work when needed but frankly, Fuji’s auto white balance actually works most of the time. Occasionally minor tweaking is in order but I don’t see it as a big deal. You will use maybe half of the sharpening in Camera RAW that you would with Canon or Nikon. And JPEGs are darn good although I am 99.9% a RAW shooter. I find Fuji out of the box easier to work with than Canon and Nikon.

  4. the pilgrim says:
    May 31, 2014 at 9:51 am

    Good to know!

  5. Charlie Anderson says:
    May 31, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Well Bill, had hoped to be there to meet you but it turns out my wife’s book isn’t as far along as she wanted before a trip to Banner Elk. Hopefully our paths will cross somewhere else!