One of the features I love about the Fujifilm cameras is the film simulations. I recently shot some colored pencils and used several different simulations.  The one above is the standard (Provia).  I like the nice neutral colors and the saturation.

 

 

By contrast, in this shot I used Classic Negative, I like it also!  Below was Classic Chrome and it dow resemble the old Kodachrome 64 colors.  The colors are more muted, but pleasant and evoke that old slide film look from days past!

 

 

Color is personal in nature, we like what we like and it’s all good!  I hope your weekend is filled with the colors of your choice!  Or maybe no color at all, (Monochrome)!

 

 

Be blessed!

 

the pilgrim

 

Technical data:  All images with the X-T5, Fujifilm XF 60mm Macro @ f 5.6 and 2.2 seconds – ISO 2  All images jpegs.

 

My second favorite love besides photography, (of course the Lord and my family and friends rank above even those two things!), is music!  When Sherelene and I built our home in 1978 I set aside a small room upstairs as a teaching room with a built in screen and a sectional couch around the walls.  Over the yearI taught a good number of classes in this space.  Later it became a catch all equipment room, but a couple of yers ago I decided to set up a music listening room.  Audio gear has always been a hobby and I cobbled together a system and organized it.

 

My teaching partner and dear friend, Jack Graham has a fabulous system in his home and it inspired me to set mine up.  Jack is really into vinyl and his system is really high end stuff, mine not so much, but I love the sound of mine and it works for me.  My system is a mix of old vintage stuff and some new modern pieces as well.  My main speakers of 1980’s era Polk SDA2 speakers, 40 plus years old but they still sound fantastic!  Sub Bass is handled with a Emotiva Sub Woofer.  I drive them with a Emotiva Base 2 Power Amp (250 watts per channel) and Emotiva PT-1 pre-amp, both high value and very clean sounding. I have about 50 albums and a very nice Technics turntable that was a gift from Jack.  My main music source is CDs of which I have well over a 1,000.  I use a vintage ES Sony CD Player and a Rotel Tribute CD player as well.  I also stream from Apple Music off my iPad Pro.  The smaller speakers are Klipsch 600M Reference Premiers.

 

My music is very eclectic, from Sinatra, to 50s 60s Rock and Roll, Blues, some country, contemporary artists, Classical, and Symphonic as well. I recently added a Eames (Reproduction Chair) to relax in for long listening sessions!  It’s taken almost 7 decades to piece it all together, but I’m really enjoying it!  Come by and I’ll play some music for you!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

As I prevued images I shot in the past, it always works out that 90% of the time the ones that jump out at me are the ones with great light!  Very often I go out in great light and look for subjects!  I found these four recently when looking at a trip to Portland’s Japanese Garden’s work.  Study the light and how they added to the texture and shapes of these subjects, hope you enjoy them!

 

 

Get out there and find some images today!

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

Many years ago my wife and I established a workshop company, The Great American Photography Weekends.  I hired many of the very best known nature/Landscape and Wildlife photographers of that time period to speak at 2o0 person events across the US.  The company had a very long life and over that time period we serviced over 7,000 photographers!

 

Such luminaries as John Shaw, Art Wolfe, the late Galen Rowell, the late John Netherton, David Middleton, Bryan Peterson, Jim Brandenburg, Jack Dykinga, David Muench, Larry West and George Lepp where just some of the great photographers that worked with us.  

 

Of all these wonderful shooters, John Shaw stood out as the best “teacher” of the group!  Not only a legendary photographer, John could make even the most difficult to understand concept of photography simple and easy to understand.  The photo above is of a photo lesson we included in a set of “Photo Cards” for field use.  It is still a great set of reminders today about composition!  Enjoy!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim