{"id":13868,"date":"2020-12-22T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:55:50","slug":"2020-top-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/2020-top-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Top Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nine Highlights and Nine Best-Loved Instagram Images of the Year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2020&nbsp;comes to an end I want to thank all of you&nbsp;for being here.  This has been of year hard work, persistence, risk-taking, facing adversity, activism, innovation, and growth.&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite a 3-month shutdown with lots of ups and downs, I was able to adapt and stay creative.  My nine highlights this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I served dozens of portrait and headshot clients<\/li><li>taught an amazing group of students in my <a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/photography\/photography-courses\/\" class=\"broken_link\">photo courses<\/a><\/li><li>completed two big personal photographic projects (<a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/protest-portraits\/\">Protest Portraits<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/photography\/social-distancing-images-of-a-small-town-project\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Social Distancing: Images of a Small Town<\/a>)<\/li><li>introduced a new way of photographing people (<a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/one-world-portraits\/\">One World Portraits<\/a>)<\/li><li>exhibited 17 times (<a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/exhibitions\/\">2020 Exhibitions<\/a>)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/category\/awards\/\">won awards<\/a>, including First Place in a juried national exhibit<\/li><li>received a grant from the NH State Council on the Arts<\/li><li>learned wet plate collodion (tintype) photography<\/li><li>and added a <a href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/welcome-to-the-vault-a-peek-at-the-new-tintype-studio-room\/\">tintype studio<\/a> to my existing studio.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m ever grateful for all of my followers, clients, friends and family.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here are my most popular Instagram images of the year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Maundy Mitchell's 2020 Top Nine most popular images on Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-13869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-720x720.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-120x120.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-80x80.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fullsizeoutput_25e7.jpeg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cell phone pic of the first exhibit of Protest Portraits on the Plymouth, NH town common outside my studio<\/li><li>A peek at my new tintype studio with my antique camera and lens, and the darkroom vault in the background<\/li><li>Behind the scenes collage of the first installation of Protest Portraits, Plymouth town common<\/li><li>The announcement collage \u2013 the Protest Portraits exhibit was going to the NH Statehouse<\/li><li>2015 photo of NH\u2019s new Artist Laureate, Amanda Whitworth<\/li><li>Self-portrait at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown<\/li><li>Dancer Ashley Meeken in blue voile<\/li><li>In-camera double exposure portrait of photographer Susan Walker&nbsp;<\/li><li>Black and white photo of dancer Ashley Meeken<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing you all happy holidays and a happy, healthy, and less weird New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Highlights and Nine Best-Loved Instagram Images of the Year As 2020&nbsp;comes to an end I want to thank all of you&nbsp;for being here. This has been of year hard work, persistence, risk-taking, facing adversity, activism, innovation, and growth.&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite a 3-month shutdown with lots of ups and downs, I was able to adapt and stay<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/2020-top-nine\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13869,"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,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36,23,52,14,12,21,28,55,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-business","category-exhibits","category-personal","category-photography","category-portraits","category-projects","category-protest-portraits","category-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13868"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23358,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions\/23358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}