{"id":57,"date":"2007-05-12T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/57-my-very-first-leafy-seadragon-photo-edithburgh.html"},"modified":"2007-05-15T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T09:23:09","slug":"my-very-first-leafy-seadragon-photo-edithburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/57-my-very-first-leafy-seadragon-photo-edithburgh.html","title":{"rendered":"My Very First Leafy Seadragon Photo, Edithburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:111 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/PB060028_400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This week&#8217;s photo is relic from the archives, my very first photograph of a Leafy Seadragon, <em>Phycodurus eques<\/em>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI was just starting out with digital underwater photography and keen to hone my skills using a 3.2 megapixel auto snapshot camera I paid $200 for.  I used this little camera solidly for 18 months taking thousands of photographs. In that time I learned so much about that little camera and how to squeeze every last ounce of performance from it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI still use this camera from time to time, especially when snorkelling. Well actually it&#8217;s not the same camera as the original one met an untimely demise off the coast of Kangaroo Island but that&#8217;s a story for another time!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there and keep diving ( if that&#8217;s what you do! ) &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath Olympus C350 1\/100s at f\/14 ISO400 Internal Flash<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s photo is relic from the archives, my very first photograph of a Leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques. I was just starting out with digital underwater photography and keen to hone my skills using a 3.2 megapixel auto snapshot camera I paid $200 for. I used this little camera solidly for 18 months taking thousands &#8230; <a title=\"My Very First Leafy Seadragon Photo, Edithburgh\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/57-my-very-first-leafy-seadragon-photo-edithburgh.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about My Very First Leafy Seadragon Photo, Edithburgh\">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-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}