{"id":1755,"date":"2014-04-27T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T02:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2014-04-27T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T02:34:12","slug":"missoulian-photographer-goes-adventuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/04\/missoulian-photographer-goes-adventuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Missoulian photographer goes adventuring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great idea<\/a> from a great photographer: Kurt Wilson, who works for the Missoulian, is planning six one-week tours throughout Montana.<\/p>\n

His goal is to visit all of the 250-some historical markers in Montana and to photograph whatever catches his fancy along the way. The first batch<\/a>\u00a0of more than 100 photos went up last week, from his driving tour of southwest Montana.<\/p>\n

Years ago, Kurt went down to St. Petersburg, Fla., to attend a training session at the Poynter Institute<\/a>, but instead of flying straight to St. Petersburg, he flew into New Orleans, I believe it was, rented a car and drove to St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

He took lots of photos on the trip and the Missoulian published a bunch of them, together with Kurt’s account of his trip. The angle was simple: Montana boy who’s never been in the Deep South discovers the Gulf Coast. It was brilliant and entertaining as hell.<\/p>\n

It got me to thinking, too. It took me a while, but I finally conceived of my own journalistic excursion \u2014 a weeklong trip with photographer David Grubbs from Yaak to Alzada, which later turned into a weeklong series of stories and photos about people and places.<\/p>\n

Now Kurt’s at it again, just as I’m mapping out my own forays into the vast expanses of Eastern Montana. I can’t wait to see what he finds over in our part of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great idea from a great photographer: Kurt Wilson, who works for the Missoulian, is planning six one-week tours throughout Montana. His goal is to visit all of the 250-some historical markers in Montana and to photograph whatever catches his fancy along the way. The first batch\u00a0of more than 100 photos went up last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[559,557,555,225,556,558],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-alzada","tag-david-grubbs","tag-kurt-wilson","tag-missoulian","tag-poynter-institute","tag-yaak","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}