{"id":5804,"date":"2012-07-13T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:19:11","slug":"a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"A good start……….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I arrived in Amherst, CT yesterday afternoon at the end of a long airport day, but immediately enjoyed the company of two dear old friends, Bill Durrence, and Bob Watts. \u00a0We were joined by a friend of Bob’s from the area and our new TSR for New England, Alex. \u00a0We had dinner and shot the sunset from a beautiful 840 foot peak overlooking the Connecticut valley. \u00a0The haze made a landscape tough, but was perfect to tone down the setting sun for some flower shots, (above). \u00a0You know i don’t shoot flowers that much, but last night proved once again put any subject in great light and the result can be pretty amazing.<\/p>\n

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I shot the D800 hand-held by running the ISO up to 1600 and 3200 to get really fast shutter speeds, the wind was also blowing the flowers pretty hard. \u00a0I waited for lulls and let the shutter speed make the difference. \u00a0These are not clinically well made images, just too much wind, but it was a very nice evening with great friends and the photography was secondary. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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Somebody’s looking at you baby…..<\/p>\n

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O.K. gotta go, it’s time to……..<\/p>\n

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Sorry! Had to do ti!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Amherst, CT yesterday afternoon at the end of a long airport day, but immediately enjoyed the company of two dear old friends, Bill Durrence, and Bob Watts. \u00a0We were joined by a friend of Bob’s from the area and our new TSR for New England, Alex. \u00a0We had dinner and shot the […]<\/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-5804","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\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}