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Sorry about that Trey! \u00a0Actually I’m stuck in Berea, Kentucky at the Fairfield Inn! \u00a0Actually Sherelene is the Nurse Practitioner at the Baptist Health Express Care Center and we could see y yesterday that this weather system was going to trap her here, so I came up and will stay with her until this weather passes through. \u00a0We have 6 inches of snow now, and are predicted to get 18 inches! \u00a0For us that is a big snow! \u00a0*(Stop snickering Bill Pekala!) \u00a0Snow and bad weather is all relative! \u00a0In Minnesota this would be called a break in the weather!<\/p>\n
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So I’m setting up office in my room here for a few days. \u00a0 I have some things I wanted to share so here goes:<\/p>\n
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(1) \u00a0You asked for it and it’s coming<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0The Fuji X-System Guide Part II is on the way. \u00a0I will go deeply into the Firmware updates for the X-T1 and X-E2. \u00a0I have a lot of new info about how to do hassle free HDR bracketing. \u00a0I have ton of new tips about getting the most of the X-T1. \u00a0I also want to do a full test of the new and very spectacular 50-140 f 2.8 zoom and info on upcoming products from Fuji. \u00a0Hope to have that out in the next few weeks! \u00a0Since it is a major update it will be value priced at $4.95!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (2) \u00a0A future His Light Tour<\/span>!<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0I’m scouting Route 66 and hope to offer a tour of the section between Albuquerque and Las Vegas to include \u00a0day in Nelson Ghost Town! This section of the Mother Road is filled with great photo pops and I think it would be a great week long tour. \u00a0I will post images in March when I scout the area, stay tuned, but my bet is it will be on the 2016 schedule!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (3)<\/span> \u00a0A reminder that we still have openings in two upcoming workshops<\/span>.<\/strong> \u00a0March 20-21, Jack and I still have a few openings for Nelson Ghost Town just outside of Las Vegas Nevada. \u00a0this is Americana treasure trove! \u00a0Contact Jack at: \u00a0 \u00a0jackgrahamphoto.com \u00a0 \u00a0 His Light’s April 8-12 Workshop at Memory Lane in Rogersville, Tennessee (near Kingsport) is a trip back to the fifties in a killer re-bult town. \u00a0Finally Fred Sisson and I will hold a Americana workshop in Roanoke, Virgina April 29 to May 3rd. \u00a0We will visit the amazing Winston O. Link Museum the legendary train photographer of the 1960’s, we will visit and and photograph the Transportation Museum of Virginia and shoot countless great Americana subjects in \u00a0Old Roanoke! \u00a0 \u00a0And Jack and I w ill return to Grandfather Mountain and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Spring, May 27-31. \u00a0This is one of my favorite locations in the east, consider joining us!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (4) \u00a0Will Canon’s current lenses support 50 mega pixels<\/span>?<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0When Nikon released the 36 mega pixel D800 back when I worked for Nikon, a number of lens updates came along with the new camera. \u00a0I am sure that Nikon knew that the lenses for the D800 had to b able to keep up with that resolution. \u00a0I am wondering out loud how Canon plans to deal with tis dilemma. \u00a0It is an optical fact of life that the more resolution we attempt to use the more demanding it is on the glass. \u00a0I will be interested in seeing how this in handled. \u00a0As the new Canon is released, I imagine you will see more and more on this subject.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well that covers it for now, be safe, and I hope you are warm wherever you are!!!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry about that Trey! \u00a0Actually I’m stuck in Berea, Kentucky at the Fairfield Inn! \u00a0Actually Sherelene is the Nurse Practitioner at the Baptist Health Express Care Center and we could see y yesterday that this weather system was going to trap her here, so I came up and will stay with her until […]<\/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-13306","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\/13306","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=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13309,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}