{"id":107,"date":"2026-08-19T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:30:51","slug":"blog-10-world-photography-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/2026\/08\/19\/blog-10-world-photography-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG #10 &#8211; World Photography Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8hs20\" data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\">Today is WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY! <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\">I&#8217;ve been doing photography since 1962-1963 when my father handed down his Yashica film camera to me. Here is one of the first photos I&#8217;ve ever taken. It is of a hut on an island in the Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. I was there with my Boy Scout troop to help establish the first troop in the Marshall Islands. Quite the experience for a 12-year old!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9ejv8-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-Majuro-1963-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-Majuro-1963-Edit.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-Majuro-1963-Edit-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-Majuro-1963-Edit-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/08\/1-Majuro-1963-Edit-768x717.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8hs20\" data-offset-key=\"3air4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3air4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3air4-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8hs20\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-0-0\"><span class=\"_5zk7\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fpa56-0-0\">#firstphoto<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"fpa56-1-0\"> #1963 <\/span><span class=\"_5zk7\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-2-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fpa56-2-0\">#majuro<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"_5zk7\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-4-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fpa56-4-0\">#majuroatoll<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"_5zk7\" data-offset-key=\"fpa56-6-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fpa56-6-0\">#majuroatollmarshallislands<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY! I&#8217;ve been doing photography since 1962-1963 when my father handed down his Yashica film camera to me. Here is one of the first photos I&#8217;ve ever taken. It is of a hut on an island in the Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. I was there with my Boy Scout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}