{"id":82,"date":"2008-09-16T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/82-spring-is-here-need-to-take-more-photos.html"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:22:03","slug":"spring-is-here-need-to-take-more-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/82-spring-is-here-need-to-take-more-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is Here, Need To Take More Photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:151 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" style=\"border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/CIMG2182_080505_Leafy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWell spring may be here but the water is still as chilly as ever. Give it a month and we will start to see it begin to warm up.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGoing through some old photos and found one I&#8217;d never published before. I can&#8217;t tell you much about this photo other than I took it with one of my student&#8217;s cameras on a recent Advanced Open Water course. I think it was a Canon Exelim (thanks Kirstin) but that&#8217;s all I have to go on. This gorgeous leafy Seadragon posed beautifully with just enough grass and algae for interest and just enough blue water for the dramatic.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou do not need to spend a lot on an underwater camera to get some stunning photos. This photo, taken with a point-and-shoot camera, demonstrates that being close, composing well (this photo is un-cropped) and taking plenty of photos will result in photos any new underwater photographer can be proud of.<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well spring may be here but the water is still as chilly as ever. Give it a month and we will start to see it begin to warm up. Going through some old photos and found one I&#8217;d never published before. I can&#8217;t tell you much about this photo other than I took it with &#8230; <a title=\"Spring Is Here, Need To Take More Photos!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/82-spring-is-here-need-to-take-more-photos.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spring Is Here, Need To Take More Photos!\">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-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}