{"id":3830,"date":"2025-07-19T20:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:36:25","slug":"waiting-for-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/waiting-for-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001.jpg?resize=499%2C714&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Waiting for Treasure\" width=\"499\" height=\"714\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001.jpg?resize=63%2C90&amp;ssl=1 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><br \/>\nSpotted this Treasure Flower bud at Gardens by the Bay this morning \u2014 still holding its secret, not quite ready to bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Shot with Dad\u2019s old Leica-R 100mm f\/2.8 macro adapted to my Canon R5. It\u2019s fully manual, and with such a shallow depth of field, nailing focus was tricky. But there\u2019s something about how Leica lenses render light and softness \u2014 that creamy bokeh, that sense of something hidden just beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet reminder that sometimes, the treasure is in the waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001-63x90.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting for Treasure\" width=\"63\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001.jpg?resize=63%2C90&amp;ssl=1 63w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250719-R5-0001.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 63px) 100vw, 63px\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macros","category-nature","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-ZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}