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First let me apologize to anyone that still comes here<\/span>! \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Everyone knows that to keep readers you must publish every day or every couple of days, well I blew that, but good, but…. with good reason!\u00a0 Between Wes’ \u00a0battle with Lymphoma and spending more time at home and remembering how much I love and enjoy my family, doing blog entries all of a sudden seemed less imporant! \u00a0I started a blog to witness my love for Jesus and how much he loves all of us! \u00a0That won’t end, I’ll try to do better!<\/p>\n

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The photograph above was shot by Wes of his children, my grandchildren, and I in the hot tub with them, one of my favorite places! \u00a0We were down in Lexington to support Wes as he starts his last treatment regime’ at Markey Cancer Center. \u00a0So first, an update on Wes. \u00a0Thank you for your prayers because only God could have pulled off this miracle. \u00a0Wes has been declared in full remission!! \u00a0He has one last chemo tratment and stem cell transplants and we should be home free. \u00a0He feels great, though this last treatment is a tough one he has been up to everything they have thrown at him! \u00a0We continue to pray that by early September we can start putting this in his past!<\/p>\n

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The Future of Workshops<\/span>! \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>I have ten events planned with Jack next year, several Fuji Workshops\u00a0included. \u00a0I don’t have any His Light Workshops scheduled but will think about maybe adding a couple. \u00a0I do a number of events for Fuji and hope to continue to do that. \u00a0I want to slow down some, but I have no plan to stop until the Lord takes me home or my body screams for relief! \u00a0So that’s, that!<\/p>\n

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Fujifilm X-System Updates:<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u00a0I have been doing \u00a0more extensive testing of the lens line and I continue to be more and more impressed with each and every one!! \u00a0The new 50mm f 2 continues to amaze me and surprise me, I was pretty sure that it was a useless focal length, I guess I wanted a 70mm so much more, but I have to say, I love the 50mm it really grows on you!<\/p>\n

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I had a 50-140 f 2.8 but sold it when I realized when flying, which I do way too much, because I came to understand \u00a0I wouldn’t fly with both it and the 100-400 and I\u00a0miss it, but still don’t think I would leave the 100-400 home and take the 50-140. \u00a0So it’s best I did what I did, but wow is that lens special! \u00a0I recently re-purchased the 55-200 and the 18-55 and I really love both of thoses lenses, they are really sharp and handy!<\/p>\n

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I’m really looking forward to the 80mm Macro f 2.8 (this fall) and wishing for the long rumored 8-16 f 2.8!!!!! \u00a0I did say rumored, I know nothing, honest, except I want one if it ever becomes a reality!!!<\/p>\n

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Getting close to God!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0If you have a friend and you don’t talk to them very often, the friendship never grows much. God is our best friend and the last 6 months, He and I have talked a lot and it is amazing how much better our friendship is going! \u00a0If I could be so bold as to offer a suggestion, talk to your Heavenly Father more, that way when you really need Him you won’t be as much a stranger to Him!<\/p>\n

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Blessings and stay cool,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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    First let me apologize to anyone that still comes here! \u00a0Everyone knows that to keep readers you must publish every day or every couple of days, well I blew that, but good, but…. with good reason!\u00a0 Between Wes’ \u00a0battle with Lymphoma and spending more time at home and remembering how much I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254","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=19254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19259,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions\/19259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}