{"id":1149,"date":"2014-09-08T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1149-day-980-my-very-own-fish-bowl.html"},"modified":"2014-12-16T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:12:06","slug":"day-980-my-very-own-fish-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1149-day-980-my-very-own-fish-bowl.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 980, My Very Own Fish Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1651 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/980-_MG_1048.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI actually created this image early in my 1000 images project but for some reason it never made it into the collection even though I have shown it before.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn reflection it would be a pitty to not include one of Adelaide&#8217;s most popular and accessible dive sites so it&#8217;s now officially number 980.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere is a little bit of history behind this image I&#8217;d like to share.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI submitted &#8216;My Very Own Fish Bowl&#8217; to a well known US Celebrity Photographer&#8217;s show for a blind critique. He looked at it, scratched his head and asked if he was looking at an aquarium shot before seeming being critical of people who take photos into aquariums.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOh well, maybe if I have called it something like &#8216;Killer Piranhas&#8217; I would have avoided the prejudiced reception.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor me this image captures so much of what I love about scuba diving Port Noarlunga Jetty.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHuge schools of sweep and silver drummer to entertain the new divers training here. A tranquil protected space behind the reef to simply relax, shakedown gear not used often enough and the anticipation of what lies on the other side.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI really do feel like it&#8217;s my very own fish bowl! <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 980, My Very Own Fish Bowl&#8217;, 1\/160s f\/7.1 ISO400 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I actually created this image early in my 1000 images project but for some reason it never made it into the collection even though I have shown it before. On reflection it would be a pitty to not include one of Adelaide&#8217;s most popular and accessible dive sites so it&#8217;s now &#8230; <a title=\"Day 980, My Very Own Fish Bowl\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1149-day-980-my-very-own-fish-bowl.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 980, My Very Own Fish Bowl\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}