{"id":2851,"date":"2025-06-16T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2025-06-17T02:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:42:47","slug":"absence-of-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2025\/absence-of-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence of Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to shoot Zimanga at 800mm!<\/p>\n<p>I call this &#8220;Absence of Elephant&#8221;. \u00a34M please! (If Peter Lik can get away with it, why can\u2019t I?)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and about 5 minutes after shooting this scene, it disgorged a herd of about 10 elephants who were happy to wander past us and be photographed. There&#8217;s probably a deep and meaningful message somewhere about looking for hidden details, but I&#8217;m not sure my brain is up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to shoot Zimanga at 800mm! I call this &#8220;Absence of Elephant&#8221;. \u00a34M please! (If Peter Lik can get away with it, why can\u2019t I?) Oh, and about 5 minutes after shooting this scene, it disgorged a herd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2025\/absence-of-elephant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}