{"id":28693,"date":"2025-04-07T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28693"},"modified":"2025-04-09T06:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:44:55","slug":"28693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28693","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>R.I.P. JIM BRANDENBURG <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnyKOwAWAAAtFku-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnyKOwAWAAAtFku-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnyKOwAWAAAtFku-1.jpeg 570w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnyKOwAWAAAtFku-1-330x220.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnyKOwAWAAAtFku-1-150x100.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 85vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg has died at age 79 in Minnesota. He was an amazing landscape photographer with integrity that is all but absent in todays world of digital scenic image capture. He once spent a month exposing one frame on a roll of film per day &#8211; un-orchestrated and un-manipulated. They were all great. Only Ernst Haas and Frans Lanting approached his ethics when it came to nature portrayal and conservation.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.I.P. JIM BRANDENBURG National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg has died at age 79 in Minnesota. He was an amazing landscape photographer with integrity that is all but absent in todays world of digital scenic image capture. He once spent a month exposing one frame on a roll of film per day &#8211; un-orchestrated and un-manipulated. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28693\" 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":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693"}],"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=28693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28698,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693\/revisions\/28698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}