{"id":16852,"date":"2020-02-20T00:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T08:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=16852"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:39:08","slug":"16852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=16852","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Dr.-Who-and-Clara-with-Leica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Dr.-Who-and-Clara-with-Leica.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dr. Who and Clara with Leica\" width=\"335\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Dr.-Who-and-Clara-with-Leica.jpg 335w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Dr.-Who-and-Clara-with-Leica-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Dr.-Who-and-Clara-with-Leica-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 85vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SELFIES<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The subject was sure to come up sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>I avoid well-known scenic overlooks, unless I need to photograph them on assignment. Fortunately, I spent my early travel photography career hanging out at the best spots before they became widely discovered.   <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, there are precious few iconic spots in the world where you can make a photograph in the best light possible without lots of folks taking selfies. The good news is pretty much everyone leaves right after sunrise to eat breakfast. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. I had a pre-cancerous growth removed recently from that part of my face not covered by the camera. It turns out I was the &#8220;Jimmy Buffett&#8221; of stock photography specializing in tropics travel during the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. Tip for the new &#8220;me generation&#8221;: use sun screen and watch your step!<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Above: Doctor Who and Clara: Unknown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELFIES The subject was sure to come up sooner or later. I avoid well-known scenic overlooks, unless I need to photograph them on assignment. Fortunately, I spent my early travel photography career hanging out at the best spots before they became widely discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,10,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16852"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17331,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}