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Have I got your attention???!!! \u00a0More about this great event in a moment!!! \u00a0FIRST, I am still alive, sorry I’ve been\u00a0missing action!!!! \u00a0My wife made me promise to give our\u00a0family all my time for\u00a0the last ten days, (I did slip in one blog\u00a0entry), but we had all our kids and grandkids! \u00a0We had a great time, but I’m\u00a0slowly\u00a0getting back into\u00a0business!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n O.K. I’m breaking \u00a0great news for my readers, and there will be much more soon! \u00a0A dear buddy of mine, Wilson Reynolds, world famous for his extreme fishing and hunting show on the National Geographic Channel, and a great photographer in his own right, has invested in a beautiful Lodge in Townsend, Tennessee, The Tremont Lodge and Resort, \u00a0and his goal from the beginning is to establish a base camp for photographers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. \u00a0The lodge is first class with great meeting facilities and will be a wonderful home of a new event he is starting. The last week of October, (prime color time for the Smokies) the 28th through November 1st, 2015 (YES this year!!!) \u00a0We will debut The First Annual Great Smokey Mountains Photography Summit. \u00a0This is destined to become one of the great annual events in photography!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This Seminar will feature some of the top photographers, teachers, speakers in the field today! \u00a0The list is still being finalized, but we expect to have; Scott Kelby, Rob Sheppard, Tony Sweet, Matt Kloskowski, Jack Graham, \u00a0Len Rue Jr., Bill Lea, \u00a0Ken Jenkins and Jim Begley, Wilson and <\/strong><\/span>I<\/strong> will be speakers too!<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0The event will have lost of break out sessions, the chance to shoot early mornings in the Smokies during great fall color, vendors displays, and lots of great times around the fire pit! \u00a0Every attendee will also get a great Comfort Colors t-shirt, these will be collectors items as each year a new volume of this event will be enjoyed! \u00a0The fee for all of this will be $450. but if you register early, you can save $75. and attend for just $350. \u00a0Much, much more details to come, but mark those dates now and joins for a fantastic new photography event in the best place, at the perfect time of year!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stay ruined for more info!!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, \u00a0tomorrow I will announce the 2016 Events Jim and I will do with His Light for 2016 plus details on some of my workshops with Jack Graham Photography as well!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So I’m back!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n <\/p>\n P.S. \u00a0Please keep Jim and Sue Haverstock in your payers, they are rushing back form a Hawaii vacation as Jim’s mother past away yesterday. \u00a0Please lift them up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have I got your attention???!!! \u00a0More about this great event in a moment!!! \u00a0FIRST, I am still alive, sorry I’ve been\u00a0missing action!!!! \u00a0My wife made me promise to give our\u00a0family all my time for\u00a0the last ten days, (I did slip in one blog\u00a0entry), but we had all our kids and grandkids! \u00a0We had […]<\/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-14558","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\/14558","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=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14569,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions\/14569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}