{"id":9385,"date":"2016-05-27T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2020-10-04T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:57:32","slug":"randy-wells-automotive-photojournalist-writer-director-of-photography-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=9385","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rwells_maui.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rwells_maui.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rwells_maui\" width=\"330\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rwells_maui.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rwells_maui-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rwells_maui-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EVERYBODY STARTS SOMEWHERE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a photographer, my journey started at age 10 with a Brownie. When I won an award from Kodak at 12, I probably should have known. By the summer of 1968 I knew and decided to hitchhike across San Francisco for two weeks photographing. Unfortunately, my parents still didn&#8217;t get it. My 11 rolls of undeveloped film were thrown out in the trash. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Five years later I was on Maui at Haleakala playing with a camera once again (see above). I left that Canon rangefinder in a phone booth and became a doctor, but I never forgot my passion. And I never gave up. <\/p>\n<p>This was the very first part of my journey.  Everybody starts somewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERYBODY STARTS SOMEWHERE As a photographer, my journey started at age 10 with a Brownie. When I won an award from Kodak at 12, I probably should have known. By the summer of 1968 I knew and decided to hitchhike across San Francisco for two weeks photographing. Unfortunately, my parents still didn&#8217;t get it. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=9385\" 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":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385"}],"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=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20220,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions\/20220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}