{"id":149,"date":"2008-06-14T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:17:34","slug":"hey-nobody-wants-to-take-_my_-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/hey-nobody-wants-to-take-_my_-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey&#8230; nobody wants to take _my_ picture???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in Toronto the last week due to illness (kidney stones), but Friday afternoon I felt up to a ride. This time through <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=terra+cotta,+ontario&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=43.716527,-79.935923&#038;spn=0.044666,0.082998&#038;z=14\">Terra Cotta<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=Cheltenham,+ontario&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=43.773011,-79.944897&#038;spn=0.002789,0.005187&#038;t=h&#038;z=18\">the Badlands<\/a>, outside <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=Cheltenham,+ontario&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=15\">Cheltenham<\/a>. I had passed them on a bike before, but didn&#8217;t really know where I was at the time. This time I stopped for some pictures (and the obligatory photo of the bike \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193242_3600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/motorcycles\/June-2008-Badlands\/Picture_001_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193243_3944.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/motorcycles\/June-2008-Badlands\/Picture_002_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193244_4200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/motorcycles\/June-2008-Badlands\/Picture_008_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193245_4488.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/motorcycles\/June-2008-Badlands\/Picture_016_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193246_4770.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/images\/motorcycles\/June-2008-Badlands\/Picture_019-cropped_192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only one stopping to look around. There was a car full of clothes and expensive camera gear, with 2 guys taking photos of a model with the Badlands in the background. Then they wanted to take photos of her in the middle of it&#8230; but she couldn&#8217;t walk out there with the fancy shoes she had on. So she put on boots&#8230; everyone trudged out to one of the high spots&#8230; then the 2 guys had to prop her up to change back into her 6&#8243; heels. She almost fell over a couple times getting the boots off but in the end she got to pose for the cameras&#8230; standing way out in the dirt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"A visit to the Badlands, outside Cheltenham, Ontario, June 2008. Here 2 photographers try to hold up a model while they swap out her boots for 6&quot; heels... she almost ended up on her ass a couple of times... but got all set up in the end...\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=149\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/thumbs\/thumbs_n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"222\"\n             data-title=\"n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n             data-description=\"A visit to the Badlands, outside Cheltenham, Ontario, June 2008. Here 2 photographers try to hold up a model while they swap out her boots for 6&quot; heels... she almost ended up on her ass a couple of times... but got all set up in the end...\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=149\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_89fee8ed864f79e3decd384f39bfc786\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/the-badlands\/cache\/n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg-nggid03222-ngg0dyn-0x192x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n             title=\"n701895367_3193247_5049.jpg\"\n              width=\"240\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t seem at all interested in taking pictures of me. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230; I&#8217;m as willing as anybody to flash a little skin for the sake of art&#8230; as long as it&#8217;s &#8220;tasteful&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in Toronto the last week due to illness (kidney stones), but Friday afternoon I felt up to a ride. This time through Terra Cotta to the Badlands, outside Cheltenham. I had passed them on a bike before, but <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/hey-nobody-wants-to-take-_my_-picture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Hey&#8230; nobody wants to take _my_ picture???<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}