{"id":8071,"date":"2013-04-12T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:51:09","slug":"working-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Working with friends……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the most satisfying thing about my job is working with good friends! \u00a0I’ve already mentioned the great time I’m having with Bill Pekala. \u00a0I first met Bill at a Nikon School in the early 70’s. \u00a0It was those first few Nikon Schools with Bill and Fred Sisson that started me on the path I’v followed my entire career! \u00a0They inspired me to want to be a photographer! \u00a0So you can either thank, or blame them!!! \u00a0At Sun n’ Fun I alway get to work with Jos\u00e9 Ramos s terrific aviation photographer that I first met through Scott Diussa. \u00a0Jos\u00e9 is a NATOPS (Navy Air Training and Operating Procedure Standardization) photographer, in laymen’s terms he is qualified to ride in the back seat of Navy fighter jets. \u00a0though not a military person he is highly respected and accepted as part of the team. \u00a0His photography is spectacular, especially his air to air stuff!\u00a0 I will feature some of his work below, but last and certainly not least I’m getting to, once again, work with our great repair tech, Francis Yeh. \u00a0Francis make a lot of photographers happy everywhere we go with great clean and check services! \u00a0He really knows his stuff and has become a good friend at these events! \u00a0This has been a \u00a0great job and theses people are alot of the reason why I will consider the last 11 years some of the highlights of my career!<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, some killer shots from Jos\u00e9!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most of my stuff is shot from the ground, here is my jet in a box shot!!! \u00a0Made with the new 80-400, pretty dang sharp! \u00a0Since it is hand held, the VR works great too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Below, Jos\u00e9 straps in for a flight!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks guys for being a blessing to me, and blessings to all of you that come by to visit each day!<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Him,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the best self portrait of the week goes to Jos\u00e9!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please come see Jos\u00e9 and I at Photoshop World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the most satisfying thing about my job is working with good friends! \u00a0I’ve already mentioned the great time I’m having with Bill Pekala. \u00a0I first met Bill at a Nikon School in the early 70’s. \u00a0It was those first few Nikon Schools with Bill and Fred Sisson that started me on the path […]<\/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-8071","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\/8071","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=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}