{"id":5047,"date":"2015-04-14T00:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2015-10-04T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T16:34:05","slug":"fitness-bathroom-selfies-as-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/fitness-bathroom-selfies-as-art-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness &#038; Bathroom Selfies as Art Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_5047'] = [\n{id: 5048, image: 'https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1428937369459b.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1428937369459b-150x150.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Ke5m30#5048\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Ke5m30#5048\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 5771, image: 'https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1430412793963c.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1430412793963c-150x150.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Ke5m30#5771\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Ke5m30#5771\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in photography as an art form. Lots of people interested in physical fitness use fitness selfies (often taken in bathrooms and locker rooms due to the presence of mirrors) to keep track of their fitness progress and\/or to present their bodies in a good light, for example, as a means for motivating themselves to keep exercising.<\/p>\n<p>Though most selfies aren&#8217;t typically artistic, there&#8217;s no reason they can&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two bathroom &#8220;fitness&#8221; selfies&#8211;taken with a relatively low quality phone camera that produces images reminiscent of Polaroid photographs&#8211;I present to you as possibly encroaching upon the genre of dramatic\/moody artistic photography&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">(click an image to see them larger and against a dark background)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5047 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_5047\" data-imgid=\"5048\" href='https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1428937369459b.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1428937369459b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_5047\" data-imgid=\"5771\" href='https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1430412793963c.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1430412793963c-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<br \/>\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\"\n style=\"min-width: 540px ! important; background-color: rgb(195, 176, 145); border-collapse: collapse;\"\n border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"18\" cellspacing=\"0\"\n width=\"540\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr>\n      <td\n style=\"color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"\n class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\">\n      <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\" target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/red_swing_76.jpg\"\n style=\"border: 0pt none ; margin: 0px; width: 114px; height: 76px; text-decoration: none;\"\n align=\"left\" height=\"76\" width=\"114\"><\/a><br>\nVisit Michael's <a\n href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/mgracemartin\"\n target=\"_blank\"\n style=\"color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\">Art Photography Portfolio<\/a> at SaatchiArt.com!\n      <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in photography as an art form. Lots of people interested in physical fitness use fitness selfies (often taken &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/fitness-bathroom-selfies-as-art-form\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23,448,447,65,436],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mgmsphotos","tag-art","tag-dark","tag-moody","tag-photography","tag-selfie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgracemartin.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}