{"id":379,"date":"2015-05-06T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2015-05-06T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:05:00","slug":"2-golds-and-a-highly-commended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"2 Golds and a Highly Commended"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you know I regularly enter the Societies monthly image competition. It is through this that I have earned 4 Photographer of the Year titles over the past 2 years. Each month we can submit one image per category. The images awarded gold get put through to the annual competition where the Photographer of the Year is decided.<\/p>\n

So this month from over 1200 images just 33 were given a gold. The following 2 images are my images that received a gold.<\/p>\n

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The highly commended images are given a second chance at being judged later on in the year and some of these images are then upgraded to gold. These also stand a chance at winning an annual award. Last year my Baby Photographer of the Year came from just such an image.<\/p>\n

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And this image, which I nearly didn’t enter because to be honest I’m not so sure it is worthy of a gold, this time received a highly commended. I’m happy with this and think its a fair score. This image was shot during a live demo at the Photography Show in Birmingham on the Bowen’s stage. So I’m really quite pleased that something shot under those circumstances could do so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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