{"id":27266,"date":"2024-02-02T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27266"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:13:51","slug":"27266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27266","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/randywells_Monumetn-Valley-UT-N9A4087psmall-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/randywells_Monumetn-Valley-UT-N9A4087psmall-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/randywells_Monumetn-Valley-UT-N9A4087psmall-1-2.jpg 570w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/randywells_Monumetn-Valley-UT-N9A4087psmall-1-2-330x230.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/randywells_Monumetn-Valley-UT-N9A4087psmall-1-2-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 85vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOME AFTER MY OFF-SEASON SOUTHWEST ADVENTURE <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to have wonderful weather in Arizona, Nevada and Utah this past week. I also made sure my route avoided popular destinations, with the exception of Forrest Gump Point at Monument Valley (it&#8217;s far less crowded at sunrise as seen above). <\/p>\n<p>Ten locations in seven days, getting up at sunrise, driving 5 hours, then somewhere else at sunset for the whole week. There were many great opportunities for photos, and my trip went without a hitch, except when an eagle hit the windshield of my rental car &#8211; shattering it on the last evening of my trip &#8211; two days after a teenager fell to his death trying to make a photograph from a cliff four miles from my accident.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine and will be returning to the SW USA later this year for more photography, trying my best to avoid bird and deer strikes, and remaining safe on location.  <\/p>\n<p>Be Careful Out There. No photograph is worth your life: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2024\/02\/02\/photographer-19-falls-to-his-death-while-taking-pictures-of-canyon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19 Year Old Falls To Death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOME AFTER MY OFF-SEASON SOUTHWEST ADVENTURE I was fortunate to have wonderful weather in Arizona, Nevada and Utah this past week. I also made sure my route avoided popular destinations, with the exception of Forrest Gump Point at Monument Valley (it&#8217;s far less crowded at sunrise as seen above). Ten locations in seven days, getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27266"}],"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=27266"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27302,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27266\/revisions\/27302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}