{"id":4229,"date":"2012-10-15T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:15:46","slug":"it-never-rains-in-southern-ampang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/it-never-rains-in-southern-ampang\/","title":{"rendered":"It Never Rains In Southern Ampang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never rains In Southern Ampang. It pours, man, it pours&#8230; Without fail, it will rain every year, throughout the nine-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/nine-emperor-gods-festival-2012\/\">Nine Emperor Gods Festival<\/a> in Ampang. Rain is good for photography. Dark skies, fire, smoke present dramatic subjects for the lens.<\/p>\n<p>When you shoot giant joss sticks, try to include a human figure so that the viewer can get a sense of scale or size. Similarly, see how I included spectators together with the stilt walkers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/nine-emperor-gods-festival-2012\/\">previous pic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Title inspired by one of my favourite Albert Hammond songs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4230\" title=\"It Never Rains In Southern Ampang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02.jpg\" alt=\"It Never Rains In Southern Ampang\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nine_emperor_gods_02-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never rains In Southern Ampang. It pours, man, it pours&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/it-never-rains-in-southern-ampang\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,378,563,25,519,9],"tags":[612,204,26,614,203,114,511,682,239],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-festivals","category-events","category-instagram","category-news-commentary","category-omd","category-photography","tag-chinese-temple","tag-ampang","tag-chinese-festivals","tag-joss-sticks","tag-nine-emperor-gods","tag-olympus","tag-om-d","tag-rain","tag-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}