{"id":24337,"date":"2021-12-10T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=24337"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:18:50","slug":"24337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=24337","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photography-randy-wells-3final2p2finalfinal2small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photography-randy-wells-3final2p2finalfinal2small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"362\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photography-randy-wells-3final2p2finalfinal2small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photography-randy-wells-3final2p2finalfinal2small-330x217.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photography-randy-wells-3final2p2finalfinal2small-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>PERSONAL WORK 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Followers of my blog know that at the end of each year I post a series of three personal photographs from a non-assignment single location.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some images I made at the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon this fall. <\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-3bp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-3bp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-3bp.jpg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-3bp-330x199.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Columbia-River-Gorge-near-Hood-River-Oregon-Pacific-Northwest-image-photo-photography-randy-wells-3bp-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/randywells-L1180036ps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/randywells-L1180036ps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/randywells-L1180036ps.jpg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/randywells-L1180036ps-330x218.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/randywells-L1180036ps-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2021 was a year of transition for many, myself included: Living in a post-Covid (kind of) world. Getting used to a new reality (again). Wearing a mask for hours straight when traveling by plane (which I did a lot of). And coming to terms with other stuff in my life. I am much happier now, however, and in better physical shape than I have been in several years.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I was very busy with editorial photography and writing, filming for collectors and doing some commercial work with my drone, I still made time for my personal work!  Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERSONAL WORK 2021 Followers of my blog know that at the end of each year I post a series of three personal photographs from a non-assignment single location. Here are some images I made at the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon this fall. Happy Holidays!<\/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],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337"}],"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=24337"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29251,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24337\/revisions\/29251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}