{"id":10376,"date":"2026-03-17T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=10376"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:24:30","slug":"ulterior-motives-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2026\/03\/17\/ulterior-motives-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulterior Motives in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our neighbors Chris &amp; Dev are pouring themselves into starting a new <a href=\"https:\/\/ulteriormoto.com\/\">business<\/a>, selling the motorsports gear that Chris designs. Hen &amp; I were thus hugely flattered when Chris enlisted our help in capturing street photos of their inaugural product, an especially safety-minded pair of gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After scouting some downtown San Jose locations together a week earlier, we met up on Thursday night with some friends &amp; their bikes. This being the first photo shoot I&#8217;d actually helped organize, I was pretty nervous\u2014and then super grateful when a random stranger named Mike approached us with his camera &amp; asked whether he could join in. He <em>really<\/em> knew his stuff, and we had a ball learning his techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/UjtrXo5gNamaKnYs5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HenMoto-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HenMoto-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HenMoto-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HenMoto-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HenMoto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m really proud of the photos Hen captured\u2014and more importantly, Chris is happy &amp; can put them to good use. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/HtgxHU6uDBRuTxA49\">Check out our gallery<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/UjtrXo5gNamaKnYs5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ulterior-Collage.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbors Chris &amp; Dev are pouring themselves into starting a new business, selling the motorsports gear that Chris designs. Hen &amp; I were thus hugely flattered when Chris enlisted our help in capturing street photos of their inaugural product, an especially safety-minded pair of gloves. After scouting some downtown San Jose locations together a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}