{"id":2339,"date":"2025-08-27T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2339-accidental-helping-hand.html"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:57:00","slug":"accidental-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2339-accidental-helping-hand.html","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Helping Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:3008 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/128-_G2A3986.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI probably could not have staged this image even if I had tried. At the moment I was about to hand my camera up to another diver in the boat, I took the shot. Instead of capturing what I had planned, the camera focused on the inside of the dome and here is the result.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt first, I was going to discard it, but the more I mulled it over, the more its abstract nature grew on me, and I decided to share it anyway.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI could have claimed I\u2019d planned it from the start, but really, I could never have pulled it off without an accidental helping hand.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#UnderwaterPhotography #AbstractPhotography #DiveLife #HappyAccidents #OceanArt #PhotographyJourney #BehindTheLens #DivingPhotography #CreativeShots #UnplannedMagic #lensblur #scuba #diving<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably could not have staged this image even if I had tried. At the moment I was about to hand my camera up to another diver in the boat, I took the shot. Instead of capturing what I had planned, the camera focused on the inside of the dome and here is the result. &#8230; <a title=\"Accidental Helping Hand\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2339-accidental-helping-hand.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Accidental Helping Hand\">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-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}