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If everything goes according to plans, the eBook Store will be open for business next Tuesday, October 14th!\u00a0 Anyone visiting the bookstore will be able, with a special code, to down load the book, 7 Steps!\u00a0 It will allow you to get acquainted with my style of eBooks at no cost!!!!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>7 Steps For Taking It To the Next Level!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This book is a 127 page plan to get through the biggest blocks to becoming a far better photographer.\u00a0 Lots of illustrating images and the most important key point to help you accomplish your task.<\/p>\n

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The first nine books includes the Foundational Series of six books for beginners and intermediates.<\/p>\n

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The Foundational Series<\/strong><\/em> includes: Volume 1.\u00a0 The Camera Controls (<\/span><\/strong><\/span>72 pages),\u00a0 Volume 2. The Eye Seeks:\u00a0 Brightness Sharpness & Warmth<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (49 Pages),\u00a0 Volume 3. Exposure Exposed<\/strong><\/span> (81 pages),\u00a0 Volume 4. Light<\/strong><\/span> (116 pages), Volume 5. The Principles of Composition<\/strong><\/span> (125 pages), Volume 6. The Four Things You Need in a Great Image<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 (65 pages).<\/p>\n

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Three additional books are also in the store;\u00a0 Building a System For Field Use<\/strong><\/span>, The FREE 7<\/span> Step<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>s<\/span> book, and Using Digital Technology to Have Fun<\/strong><\/span> (all about the fun things you can do with post processing filters and Monochrome conversions, sort of a idea book!)<\/p>\n

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So how do I need your help?\u00a0 Let me start by sharing my philosophy of photography eBooks with\u00a0 you.\u00a0 I once heard a story about a long haul truck driver who was asked by a friend, “I just don’t see how you do it, driving all the way from New York to Los Angeles!!”\u00a0 The truck driver answered, ” I don’t, I drive from New York to Pittsburgh, then from Pittsburgh to St. Louis, on to Oklahoma City, then to Albuquerque and then on into LA.”\u00a0 What he was saying is he breaks the trip up into manageable parts!\u00a0 I believe that we learn the same way.\u00a0 The problem with many instructional photo books is that they try to take what someone has learned over 20 years and fit it into 200 pages!\u00a0 To do that you have to go fast and complicate things.\u00a0 I prefer to take one simple concept at a time and make sure the person, trying to learn, truly gets it!\u00a0 I have Scott Kelby to thank for cementing this theory into my method of teaching.\u00a0 He built a wildly successful business out of a simple concept, “Help them get it!”\u00a0 If you do that, as they say in Field of Dreams, “Build it and they will come….”\u00a0 Well he built it, and they surely keep coming!\u00a0 It’s called value!\u00a0 That’s why I’m part of KelbyOne! People want to learn, and if you make it easy to learn, you will develop a following.\u00a0 I just want to help people learn the thing I understand best, photography!<\/p>\n

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The first six books are deceptively simple, very deceptively!\u00a0 I really don’t care if anyone thinks they are a little “light weight”, as long as they walk away understanding things a lot better!\u00a0 Future books will get more “involved”!\u00a0 In photography 90% of what you really need to know is in the first six books, the remaining 10% will be spread over a bunch of books, and that is where you come in!<\/p>\n

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I need your suggestions!\u00a0 After you read the first free book and any other book you buy and read, shoot me an email and give me your thoughts!\u00a0 Here is what is coming next!<\/p>\n

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The Fuji X-System – A User’s Guide!\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 * not an every setting book, but how to use the system to make great images!
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Designing a Photograph – Advanced Composition<\/strong><\/span>
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\u00a0Americana Photography – The How To Guide<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Story Behind – Americas From 500 Feet I & II\u00a0 (the best of both books!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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My Favorite Images – How They Were Shot<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Existing Light Photography\u00a0 –\u00a0 Shooting in the Almost Dark!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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So the next step is up to you, jump in and let me know what you think, and by-the-way the majority of my books are only $4.99.\u00a0 How do you like them apples!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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Once again, how on earth do I think I know enough to write these books????!!!!\u00a0 In the last 45 years I’ve taught side by side with, and studied under some of the greatest photographers of our age, and I learned things from every one of them:<\/p>\n

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John Shaw\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Kelby\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Art Wolfe\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Jack Graham\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 David & Mark Muench\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Jim Brandenburg\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Jay Maisel\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Joe McNally\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Bill Pekala\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 The Late Galen Rowell<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Krist\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Bryan Peterson\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 L.L. Rue\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 George Lepp\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Fred Sisson\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0 Mark Kettenhofen<\/span><\/p>\n

R.C. Concepcion\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Kloskowski\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0 Moose Peterson\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Begley\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Vinny Colucci
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Jim Haverstock\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Bol\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 and on and on, and on!<\/span><\/p>\n

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