{"id":2048,"date":"2025-09-04T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/?page_id=2048"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:48:51","slug":"08-31-2024-unexpected-photo-op-voodoo-donuts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/?page_id=2048","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Photo Op"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>August 31st, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dante&#8217;s, a well known club on Burnside in downtown Portland, offers a burlesque show on Sunday nights at 10pm. Since the show is technically on a &#8220;school night&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been able to make it, but this being a three day weekend I grabbed an uber, arrived a little early, kicked back a shot of Jack Daniels with a Coke on the side, and people watched as what I hoped would be an OG burlesque show (something I&#8217;d never seen before) evolve into what seemed more a NC-17 strip show cheered on by a rich crowd of Portland twenty and thirty somethings as well as a smattering of much welcome guests. Disappointed with the lack of old school flare I left after two acts only to stumble upon a fleet of photographers surrounding a couple of low riders and scantly clad models outside of Voodoo donuts. Not to be overly presumptuous I asked one if they minded me getting some practice shots in (a huge deal for me given my generally introverted nature). Here are some of the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camera:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/p\/z-6ii\/1659\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/p\/z-6ii\/1659\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikon Z6ii<\/a><br>Lens:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/p\/nikkor-z-mc-105mm-f28-vr-s\/20100\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/p\/nikkor-z-mc-105mm-f28-vr-s\/20100\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikon Z MC 105mm f\/2.8 VR S<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31st, 2025 Dante&#8217;s, a well known club on Burnside in downtown Portland, offers a burlesque show on Sunday nights at 10pm. Since the show is technically on a &#8220;school night&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been able to make it, but this being a three day weekend I grabbed an uber, arrived a little early, kicked back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2048","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2048\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skabs.tplinkdns.com\/pygmiestudios\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}