

{"id":12463,"date":"2014-12-04T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2014-12-04T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:26:20","slug":"surprise-its-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=12463","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!!!  It&#8217;s out&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?attachment_id=12464\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-12464\" title=\"User's Guide\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-580x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-580x436.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-960x722.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-600x451.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-880x662.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-500x376.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1-664x500.jpg 664w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Users-Guide1.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book is live at the eBook store now!\u00a0 We caught a break and got things done earlier than expected!\u00a0 Please feel free to check it out!!\u00a0 I think Fuji Users will love it, it covers a lot of ground!I had a call from a friend the other day and he asked why so many books so fast!\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad he asked, and I would like to share that with you too!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big joke with Scott Kelby, he always introduces me as &#8220;A man barely alive!&#8221;\u00a0 That came from when we first met and I spoke often about my mortality and Scott, loved teasing me about my penchant for the uncertainty of the end of life!\u00a0 My father passed away at age 66, and I guess for many years I thought I wouldn&#8217;t last much longer than that, you know, heredity and all of that.\u00a0 Well I&#8217;m 68 and will turn 69 in February, I guess I beat the first hurdle! Don&#8217;t get me wrong,\u00a0 I&#8217;m not afraid of dying, I know where I will\u00a0 be when the time comes, and since I&#8217;ve survived cancer twice.\u00a0 No, I&#8217;m not afraid for this life on earth to end, but I don&#8217;t want to leave anything I meant to do, undone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lifetime learning everything I can about the craft of photography, and I just want to get as much of it down on paper, or as it would be a computer file!\u00a0 I love to teach and share, and for anyone interested I plan to keep cranking them out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the Americana Photography, Step -By-Step Guide!\u00a0 It should be in the eBook store by Friday of next week.\u00a0 It is 179 pages.\u00a0 It not only explains how to approach American Photography but has countless illustration of different kinds of Americana Subject matter!\u00a0 When you get one of the new books if you email me a quote about it and we use it in a blog or on the store, I would love to give you a free book from the store!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?attachment_id=12465\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-12465\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-04 at 2.40.34 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-580x433.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-580x433.png 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-270x201.png 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-960x717.png 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-600x448.png 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-880x657.png 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-350x261.png 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-400x298.png 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-370x276.png 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-500x373.png 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM-669x500.png 669w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-2.40.34-PM.png 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks guys for being along for the ride!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The book is live at the eBook store now!\u00a0 We caught a break and got things done earlier than expected!\u00a0 Please feel free to check it out!!\u00a0 I think Fuji Users will love it, it covers a lot of ground!I had a call from a friend the other day and he asked why so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12470,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12463\/revisions\/12470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}