Favorite Pic of the Day for October 18th

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Victor by Bob Burkhardt

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Seasonal Sightings:

Charlie Heaton in Below

'Stay away from the water....'

Like so many people watching television this past weekend, I began my binge of Below.  I'm four episodes in, with just two left to go.  I began reading about the show last summer, when on-set promotional images of the cast began to be released.  Then, it didn't have an official title, and was simply called 'The Untitled Newfoundland Project.'    

I have a fasciation with the most Eastern Canadian Province, having travelled there a s kid.  I love how below captured the feel of Snook's Arm and the mysteries that lurk below the surface of the ocean.  If you check out images of Newfoundland, you'll often see images of ice bergs close to the shore and the towns and villages.   Less so today with climate change, but still a site to behold.

With Joe Keery (Stranger Things)

Josh Hartnett stars as Calvin Penney, a fisherman trying to protect his family and the community after a mysterious sea creature terrorizes the small fishing town.  For a remote fishing village.  It's come home year for the town, and two of Penney's children  return home for a visit. The third son Wade, (Charlie Heaton) still lives at home with dad, both battling their own demons.   

Like so many others, I first saw Heaton on Stranger Things, and although I enjoyed his character, I gave up on the show after awhile.  The long waits between seasons didn't help.  Given how slim he is, Heaton surprised me with how great he looked during his nude scene in the shows second episode.  I love also love his character Wade, call me a sucker for cute, but damaged hottie.  As much as I enjoy Charlie, Wade's brother also grabbed my attention, and you can see a bit more of him on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Charlie Heaton on Instagram

The Beach House: Victor by Bob Burkhardt

'We shot for maybe 20 minutes and then headed home.'
Bob Burkhardt

Last month, before the start of Autumn, FH closed out the summer season with a trip to the beach.  The shoot featured Victor on a Provincetown beach shot photographer Bob Burkhart. (Best Laid Plans) If you checked out that previous piece, you know the shoot wasn't a long one.  It was a really hot day, so hot, that standing in the sand for too long was painful on the feet.  Given the lack of a breeze, and need to walk great distances to find private spaces to shoot nudes, Bob cut the beach portion of the shoot off after about 20 minutes.

Although Victor and Bob left the beach, the shoot continued, this time, inside the air conditioned Beach House where Bob was staying.  Within the Beach House, Victor was able to strip down, and pose without risking a nasty burn on his bare skin.  It also provided more opportunities for Victor to display his gorgeous body in  sensual poses showing off his beautiful lines and curves.  I've always loved how naturally adept Victor is at pose creation and how artistically Bob captures them all.

Living in Calgary, Victor doesn't often get the opportunity to head to a salt water beach.  Although Canada is surrounded by oceans, (Artic, Atlantic and Pacific) on three sides, the closest ocean to where Victor lives, is over 700 miles away.  That doesn't mean there aren't beaches, just not ones near a sea or an ocean. So... although the beach shoot may not have been a picnic for Bob, Victor enjoyed each of the twenty minutes he spend in the sand and the sun.

What did you want to get out of your recent shoot with Bob? 
I have always been a Canadian city boy and didn't grow up around beaches. I'd been looking forward to the Provincetown trip with Bob all year and loved the idea of doing some beach shoots since it's a rare environment for me to be in. We have local smaller ones by rivers/reservoirs, but nothing quite like the East Coast. Definitely wanted to capture the beauty of Provincetown and Cape Cod in general.

Did you enjoy shooting on the beach?
I sure did, I had to watch out for glass in the sand but the beach served as a great environment for photos. 

Did you have to worry about other people being around?
For the nudes, we had to venture further down the beach where people weren't gathered. It was a hot day so we didn't have to worry too much about being walked in on. 

Are you a beach person? 
I love a good beach and definitely hope I visit more. I'm not a sun tanner mostly because of my tattoos and need to keep them looking sharp, but do love it (slathered in sunscreen). This nude beach shoot with Bob was probably one of my most memorable.

Have you gone to a nude beach before?
Not until just recently!  I just checked out a local gay nude beach in Calgary. It's a beach that's off the main path of a park and a 20 minute hike away. Given it was one of the last nice days of the year, there was a lot of skin on display.

Any specific memories or moments stand out from this beach shoot?
Although it wasn't a super long shoot due to the heat, I loved taking the water taxi to the beach and strolling through there and dipping in the water. Just beautiful to be by the water.

Victor on Instagram

Bob Burkhardt Photography
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Well Hung Man

'Hopefully you'll guess what the popular phrase is... otherwise, you'll have cock or ass in your face.'

On my quest to find game shows with a wee bit of male skin, I came upon this episode o Celebrity Juice.  The game show as a British comedy show starring the fictional character Keith Lemon.  The panel game show broadcast on ITV2 between 24 September 2008 and 15 December 2022.

In this episode, the panelist are playing 'well hung man'.  The hung doesn't necessarily mean the penis, but the show's format, which is similar to the classic 'hang-man' game.  A phrase is hidden, and as the panelists guess what it is, the two models are not hung, but required to take off a piece of clothing for each wrong answer. 

The model on the losing team, (meaning he had to get naked) was named Trevor.  It doesn't hurt, that Trevor also bears more than a passing resemblance to actor Jason Momoa.  If you watch the video, you'll see that the frontal is mostly blurred.  It did air on prime-time in the UK.  Still, it's still fun, and we get a great view of Trevor's tuchas.