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I leave at O:Dark Thirty tomorrow for Portland, OR to Join Jack Graham, Dan \u00a0Bailey and Dan Westergren for the last Fujifilm Summit<\/strong> <\/span>for 2017! \u00a0 I took the summer; \u00a0half of June, all of July and August off to be with family. \u00a0During the 7 + month battle Wes has waged against his cancer, we have all altered our schedules to be available for anything we can do to help!! \u00a0Our family has really drawn even closer together and I think I will try to take all my summers off and be with Sherelene, my adult kids and grandchildren in the future!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fall is and exciting mix of some of my favorite locations! \u00a0After I return from Portland, the next thing up is at the end of September, early October, the Grand Tetons<\/strong><\/span> with Jack, truly one of the most majestic national parks! \u00a0Then it’s off to Buffalo, NY to do a one day digital photography seminar for the Frontier Camera Club. \u00a0The nexty week I’m over to Akron, Ohio to meet Jack for his Amish and Northern Ohio Tour<\/span><\/strong>, always a lot of fun! \u00a0On the way home,, (driving to all those locations), I will stop by Liberty University<\/strong><\/span> to speak to Tim Issacson’s photography classes!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I get home just in 1time to make sure I’m still married and then it’s down to the Smokies for the Annual Nature Photography Summit!<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0The following week Jack joins me for our Fall Smokies Fujifilm Workshop!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I will enjoy the rest of November with my family and then head back to the Smokies for the last part of November and early December for the “Christmas in the Smokies”<\/strong><\/span> with our His Light Faithful Friends<\/span><\/strong> for a reunion and to get spiritually prepared for the holidays!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then my winter break will last until the Great American Route 66 Tour<\/span><\/strong> Jack and I are doing in mid March! \u00a0Full details on next year’s schedule coming soon!! \u00a0You can see all the Bill and Jack schedule at \u00a0jackgrahamphoto.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One new feature for next year, I will be offering “One on One” private teaching session<\/strong><\/span>s, details coming on that too!!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a great fall!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I leave at O:Dark Thirty tomorrow for Portland, OR to Join Jack Graham, Dan \u00a0Bailey and Dan Westergren for the last Fujifilm Summit for 2017! \u00a0 I took the summer; \u00a0half of June, all of July and August off to be with family. \u00a0During the 7 + month battle Wes has waged against […]<\/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-19302","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\/19302","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=19302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19306,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions\/19306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}