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I have been a fan of National Geographic almost my entire life, but my real interest started in 1968 when I fell in love with the craft of photography! \u00a0I went to the local Toyota dealer this morning to have a bulb repalced in one of my fog lights and while waiting, I found this old copy of National Geographic from 2013, \u00a0their 125th Anniversary. \u00a0I was engrossed with the articles and images and it re-sparked my love for this wonderful craft and hobby! \u00a0When I was a young photographer I admired the shooters for this magazine immensely! \u00a0Later in my career I got to know a number of them personally and I benefited greatly from their friendship and knowledge! \u00a0Now that I have been a student and teacher of photography for over 50 years, looking through an issue devoted to some of the great images that have appeared in this magazine, I saw them with different eyes! \u00a0So much of what I’ve learned and taught through the years are in full exhibition in these pages! \u00a0Armed with only the most important basic principles of photography, \u00a0these images jump out as sterling examples of doing the craft extremely well!<\/p>\n
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This \u00a0magazine articles are broken into catagories of what they believe their images do:<\/p>\n
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WITNESS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROVE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n RELATE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n REVEAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CELEBRATE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROTECT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I believe their images and countless stories have accomplished those goals through the years. \u00a0It gave me the opportunity to see if my work, that is not photojournalism, which theirs are, have any other attributes?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I hope my work has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n INSPRIRED<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n DOCUMENTED<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SHARED \/ TAUGHT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n GIVEN INSIGHT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENCOURAGED HOP<\/span>E<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, while I acknowldege that Natuonal Geographic has more than met their goals in their catagories, it is not for me to say whether or not I have. \u00a0I can only continue to see, capture and hope my goals are being met! \u00a0I do thank God for the great example of excellence they have set before all of us, and I continue to learn from them, and share that learning with you!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What a privilege it is to go through life holding a camera!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been a fan of National Geographic almost my entire life, but my real interest started in 1968 when I fell in love with the craft of photography! \u00a0I went to the local Toyota dealer this morning to have a bulb repalced in one of my fog lights and while waiting, I found […]<\/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-20076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076","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=20076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20080,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions\/20080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}