

{"id":27876,"date":"2024-02-11T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27876"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:12:30","slug":"a-great-lesson-from-a-master-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27876","title":{"rendered":"A Great Lesson from a Master Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27877\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-960x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-960x565.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-270x159.jpg 270w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-1536x904.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-2048x1205.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-880x518.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-580x341.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-350x206.jpg 350w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-400x235.jpg 400w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-370x218.jpg 370w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-500x294.jpg 500w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Designing-750x441.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Many years ago my wife and I established a workshop company, The Great American Photography Weekends. \u00a0I hired many of the very best known nature\/Landscape and Wildlife photographers of that time period to speak at 2o0 person events across the US. \u00a0The company had a very long life and over that time period we serviced over 7,000 photographers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Such luminaries as John Shaw, Art Wolfe, the late Galen Rowell, the late John Netherton, David Middleton, Bryan Peterson, Jim Brandenburg, Jack Dykinga, David Muench, Larry West and George Lepp where just some of the great photographers that worked with us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Of all these wonderful shooters, John Shaw stood out as the best &#8220;teacher&#8221; of the group! \u00a0Not only a legendary photographer, John could make even the most difficult to understand concept of photography simple and easy to understand. \u00a0The photo above is of a photo lesson we included in a set of &#8220;Photo Cards&#8221; for field use. \u00a0It is still a great set of reminders today about composition! \u00a0Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Many years ago my wife and I established a workshop company, The Great American Photography Weekends. \u00a0I hired many of the very best known nature\/Landscape and Wildlife photographers of that time period to speak at 2o0 person events across the US. \u00a0The company had a very long life and over that time period we [&hellip;]<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876","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=27876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27878,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27876\/revisions\/27878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}