{"id":58,"date":"2026-06-15T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/?p=58"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:46:12","slug":"blog-4-what-ive-been-up-to-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/2026\/06\/15\/blog-4-what-ive-been-up-to-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG #4: What I’ve Been Up to Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everybody,<\/p>\n

Quick confession: I’m supposed to be your bird and landscape guy, but lately I’ve been all over the place. I’ve been shooting photojournalism for the Anacortes American newspaper, covering events for my church, and working with the Downtown Anacortes Alliance.<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy stretch, but a good one, and I want to share a few shots from the last week so you can see what’s been keeping me busy.<\/p>\n

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Father Bond – visiting priest from New Zealand –\u00a0 sprinkles the June birthday celebrants at LaConner Sacred Heart Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Anacortes American assignment: (L-R) Dr Miranda Montellano, Mayor Ryan Walters, and Kelly McKittrick cut the ribbon for the Anacortes Birth Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Anacortes American assignment: The attending crowd gives outgoing CEO Jesica Kiser a standing ovation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"\"Anacortes Downtown Alliance (DAA) team members install banners near the Anacortes Ferry entrance.<\/p>\n

Some of these are candid, some are “on assignment,” but all of them remind me why I love doing this.<\/p>\n

Here’s the good news: I’m carving out time soon to get back to my roots. Birding and landscape work are next on the list, so keep an eye out for that.<\/p>\n

Thanks for sticking around. If you want to catch more of this stuff as it happens, give me a follow on<\/p>\n

Talk soon, Ernie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everybody, Quick confession: I’m supposed to be your bird and landscape guy, but lately I’ve been all over the place. I’ve been shooting photojournalism for the Anacortes American newspaper, covering events for my church, and working with the Downtown Anacortes Alliance. It’s been a busy stretch, but a good one, and I want to […]<\/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-58","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\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}