{"id":3908,"date":"2026-09-07T01:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:13:25","slug":"faith-and-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/faith-and-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Fortune"},"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\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=888%2C1428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Faith and Fortune\" width=\"888\" height=\"1428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=497%2C800&amp;ssl=1 497w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=56%2C90&amp;ssl=1 56w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=768%2C1235&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><br \/>\nOutside Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple on Waterloo Street, a woman pauses to buy 4D tickets from a wheelchair-bound seller beneath his brightly coloured umbrella. Behind them, worshippers offer flowers and joss sticks amid the constant movement of the crowd. In post-processing, I brought out the warm, vivid colours of the two subjects and their small patch of shade, while keeping the busy temple background subdued. It is a quiet meeting of faith, chance and everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305-56x90.jpg\" alt=\"Faith and Fortune\" width=\"56\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=56%2C90&amp;ssl=1 56w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=497%2C800&amp;ssl=1 497w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?resize=768%2C1235&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260905-R5-0305.jpg?w=888&amp;ssl=1 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 56px) 100vw, 56px\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candids","category-decisive-moments","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-112","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}