{"id":32847,"date":"2026-01-05T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=32847"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:27:59","slug":"snap-and-chat-or-grip-and-grin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2026\/01\/05\/snap-and-chat-or-grip-and-grin\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap and Chat, or Grip and Grin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few snapshots of me from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were made by a longtime friend of mine Michael.<\/p>\n

\"Lock<\/a>
Lock Rock, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, October 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pothole,<\/a>
Pothole, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, October 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The crack where I first kissed my first girlfriend Tina in 1980, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, October 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thea<\/a>
Thea and Richard, Halloween 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""Sweater<\/a>
“Sweater ads,” November 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Using<\/a>
Using my Fuji 6×7 while shooting “sweater ads,” November 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\""Sweater<\/a>
“Sweater ads,” November 1997<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Climbing<\/a>
Climbing the tree in Michael and Thea’s front yard, 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sweet<\/a>
Sweet potato casserole in baking dish that shattered while reheating, Thanksgiving 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Richard<\/a>
Richard and David Play “Doom,” Thanksgiving 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Margaret,<\/a>
Margaret, Richard and Thea skiing at Angel Fire, New Mexico, early 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Palisades<\/a>
Palisades of Cimarron Canyon, New Mexico, early 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shooting<\/a>
Shooting black-and-white 6×7 film in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge’s Parallel Forest, November 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Photographing<\/a>
Photographing Gravel Rock atop Sitting Rock with my Fuji 6×7 in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, November 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My Fuji 6×7 sits on my hat during a rest break, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, November 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This is another image of me making pictures with my Fuji 6×7 in the Wichitas, November 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hiking<\/a>
Hiking in The Narrows in the Wichita Mountains, November 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Posing<\/a>
Posing for a pic on a rock in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, November 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few snapshots of me from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were made by a longtime friend of mine Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-journals-notebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32847"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33342,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847\/revisions\/33342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}