{"id":8752,"date":"2025-11-05T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:27:43","slug":"never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/?p=8752","title":{"rendered":"Never Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you know I am a portrait photog who shoots people wherever I find them. The accent here sits on the “find”. Some people don’t want to be photographed. Some do it reluctantly only after I apply some people skills. Some readily cooperate and even pose. I will write the next few days about recent experiences and include portraits.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday during a photo walk with my photo friend Art, this woman with a rollator cruised by. I asked if I could take her picture, holding up camera. She asked the traditional question, “why do you want to take my picture?” I said, “…, because you are beautiful.” She said yes and I shot.<\/p>\n

I gave her my card and told her if she emailed me I would send her a file. She \u00a0said she wouldn’t because she gets too many emails and besides, then I would have her address. Well, I pointed out, “if I were going to steal your identity, you have my card with my picture and address.”<\/p>\n

We parted. All I am left with is the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you know I am a portrait photog who shoots people wherever I find them. The accent here sits on the “find”. Some people don’t want to be photographed. Some do it reluctantly only after I apply some people skills. Some readily cooperate and even pose. I will write the next few days about recent … Continue reading “Never Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,14,15,17,174,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-2","category-art","category-personal","category-photography","category-portraits","category-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duckpondworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}