{"id":28861,"date":"2025-05-09T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28861"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:22:26","slug":"28861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28861","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

CHOP WATER, CARRY WOOD<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Image of a hot rod spectator walking alone at Speed Week 2018 at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, American Southwest by Randy Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, I know, it’s “chop wood carry water”, but this version could work too. Especially if it’s ice your chopping in winter to boil on a fire, fed by the wood you carried in.<\/p>\n

Thinking outside the box is why I get hired. I don’t go in search of photographs I saw on somebody’s website or social media. That’s been done to death. I’m looking for backgrounds, weather, and vehicles that have never been composed together in one image. Or I’m looking for a series of images that tell a story that follows the original text I wrote to reinforce what I’m wanting to say. <\/p>\n

AI is useless, except if you don’t know what it is you are trying to say. Then AI will think for you and create a piece of you know what. Something meaningful built with integrity is what I’m after. That and truth and beauty, or art (which as Picasso said) is a lie that tells the truth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHOP WATER, CARRY WOOD Yes, I know, it’s “chop wood carry water”, but this version could work too. Especially if it’s ice your chopping in winter to boil on a fire, fed by the wood you carried in. Thinking outside the box is why I get hired. I don’t go in search of photographs I … Continue reading “”<\/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\/28861"}],"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=28861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28866,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions\/28866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}