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5 Years Ago
Someone once said that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame in their lifetimes.
I think I've now cleared that.
As most of you know (those who care) that I have an abiding passion for New England Fall Foliage. As such, I have been blogging about it for about 15+ years.
This foliage season has been busier than normal for me...
Last week (17 Oct) I was on the PBS version of the BBCs AutumnWatch (that was 4 minutes right there).
Also on the 15th and 16th I had a CBS film crew travel along with me and my wife while I went looking for the fall colors. (the 16th was when we got 40-60 MPH winds and YES I got a little tense on that day. :-)
This event will be televised on the 4th of November (This is a correction, as I just had a call from the producer in New York) on the CBS Sunday Morning show. (9:00 EST check your local listings (here is the link to the listings https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunday-morning-show-times/) I assume this will add to my total and whether or not I get to my 15 minutes or not for this year depends on how long they give me. (2 days of filming has to give me at least 5 minutes, right?)
A couple of weeks ago Tina Turner got 9.5 minutes... by my figuring then I may only get 30 seconds... we'll have to watch it it and see how I do. ;-)
https://jeff-foliage.com
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Thank you. They tell me they have a 6 million person viewership... that is my advertising for the year. I hope I get something out of it.
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I record CBS Sunday Morning every week and love watching it. I look forward to seeing you, Jeff!
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Terrific opportunity -- congrats Jeff!
carmenhathaway.com
5 Years Ago
I'm home on a slow recovery from pneumonia. Hopefully, I can navigate to the family room and watch it there vertically :)
5 Years Ago
Tom, thanks, feel better..
Thanks, Ron, Peggy, Mo, R C, Toby, Carmen, Bradford, lindley...
I'm hoping they at least mention my blog site... we will see what they talk about. I just hope it doesn't get too chopped. 4 Minutes is far to short to talk about any thing...
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Jeff... I curtsey to your infamy.... fame!!!!
Very well done. Remember us when you are on your yacht!
5 Years Ago
Unless you're the Moment of Nature at the end.
Congratz! Seriously.
As for the foliage, I hope they say something about the Asiatic Bittersweet which is eating our trees and I find it VERY hard to get people interested in fighting it!
BTW that "someone" was Andy Warhol. (and it was a dystopian prediction. IMHO)
PLAU
UPD
5 Years Ago
Now, that my season (face to face selling season) is over, I can get around to enjoy the fall season.
And since Sundays will again be free ,I will get back to enjoying CBS SUNDAY MORNING, my favorite program on TV.
And I will certainly enjoy getting to know you, Jeff, there
5 Years Ago
Well Uther, I just pulled out a bunch that has been growing over a small maple at the edge of my driveway (conservation land abuts it) and I don't care if they tell me I can cut it back. I just removed 400-500 seed pods from germinating in my area. I also have the other nasty one. it's called cat briar and you have to wear armor to tackle this one.
I love the look of bittersweet but not the nature of it... TOUGH to get rid of.
Back to Sunday though, I just looked on the CBS Sunday morning site and I'm sharing the day with Frankenstein!!! Its the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelly's story... So for horror fans there is another reason to watch this Sunday!
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That is very wonderful. I love watching CBS Sunday Morning. I'll be sure to look for you.
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Yea, Jeff! That’s very cool. I just set my DVR to record the show for Sunday.
Happy to say I knew you when.
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Thank you Ed for sharing that...
My advice to everyone who has a Wordpress blog for a website... DON'T DO IT IF YOU GET FAMOUS!!! For everybody else it's fine but they crashed my website this morning and they webhost is still trying to help...
You want to know what did work... Facebook... it's been sending traffic here (37 sales today) So for all those haters of FB... Keep that in mind...
I also have to think my wife who kept answering comments all day on FB... I have a great partner in all this... :-)
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Let me say it again. Jeff, you are awesome. I just got done walking on an autumn day with all the foilage on the ground and above me in many hues of fall and I am in heaven. I love leaves as well, so beautiful.
Thank you for serving our great country and congratulations on your 15 minutes of fame!!!!
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Just saw this one Facebook.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-england-fall-colors-photographer-jeff-folger-aka-jeff-foliage/
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Congratulations Jeff on your feature the Sunday Morning show it was an awesome segment. The best of continued success and limelight !!!!
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Thanks all apparently when all the traffic doesn't come in 5 minutes wordpress can take it. But I've cleared 5,490 views for today and that is the most ever in a single day. The Boston globe did a piece on me a few years back and that set the bar high at 3,562. But now I have an even higher bar.
I also have people who are asking about materials for Mattes so they may purchase later.. the free shipping which I forgot to take advantage of myself really put me over top.
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Jeff, I watched it today. My only complaint is it wasn’t longer.
Stunning views and photography! You are at ease in front of the camera as you are at its controls.
Congrats!
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Peggy can you play any videos on Youtube? If so you should be able to play this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cvW1OGDpEQ&t=3s
Just go to Youtube and search CBS sunday morning and then look down the page for the fall colors and it "should" play...
But thank you for wanting to play it.
My website is back up today and my numbers of visitors are off the charts with currently 6,681 views as of now but sales have slowed down to only a few today.
Also a few people told me I was the first item on the Skimm today which seems to be a news aggregate of some sort. I signed up for it but a young woman in my office says to me that you were on the skimm... You are national now... (they have a 7mil reader base)
I think all my sales yesterday were a perfect storm in the making. everybody trying to get my website went to Facebook since that was working and there was my Advertisement for my 3 LTPs and the fact that there was free shipping...
I may never see that kind of sales day again, my head is still spinning. Thank you all for the warm wishes and I will wish the same to you...
5 Years Ago
Just seen this, congratulations, I hope it helps much!!
TL Mair
http://mairsphotography.com
5 Years Ago
CBS just tweeted your story Jeff!
Hope this works:
Photographer "Jeff Foliage," the pied piper of New England's fall colors https://t.co/Trc8pigOpl pic.twitter.com/SzWYHoUaxL— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 6, 2018
Nope. You can see the tweet here.
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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
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5 Years Ago
Thank you TL, Susan, and Judy.
TL, more sales in one day than all of this year or almost...
My blog crashed on Sunday but stayed up on Monday. The amount of views for November so far was 1/3 of all of Oct. Yesterday was 7,450 views. Up till this point, my best after a Boston Globe article was 5,320 in one day. So the bar has been reset
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Jeff I'm so happy for you!!!! Saw the show on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it!!! They and you truly did a beautiful job!!!! Happiest of congratulations!!!!!
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Congratulations, Jeff. I just read through much of this thread and watched the video on the YouTube link you posted above. Very, very nice. I was a very cool piece and you are a natural - more interesting than the reporter. I hope this continues to be productive for you.
BillSwartwout.com
5 Years Ago
Well Bill, the sales slowed as of yesterday but the producer from CBS in New York called again... So Maybe it will continue to be productive... Details when I know them.
One funny item, My Facebook page got so much traffic that they put me in Facebook jail (I think) I can post to the page but I can't post a picture on the page... I went up from 14,600 to 25,299... in too short a period of time... Opps my bad
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It's hard to beat the power of TV. Congrats.
I lived in VT some years ago and have many relatives up that way. The foliage is not what many would have expected this year. Leaves turning later than normal some not turning at all like normal. Oh well just one out of the many. I miss the hills on fire look there. No place quite like it.