{"id":424,"date":"2013-08-03T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2013-08-03T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:05:00","slug":"and-another-gold-award-in-the-monthlies-for-pet-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"And Another Gold Award in the Monthlies for Pet Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am just loving the Societies Monthly competition this year.&nbsp; It has&nbsp;got me motivated more than usual to keep producing work I think is worthy of entering.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-aZv9cV7MkfY\/Uf1R7peI_eI\/AAAAAAAACGY\/jz0fK7KLn5I\/s1600\/2013_07+Pets.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"532\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-aZv9cV7MkfY\/Uf1R7peI_eI\/AAAAAAAACGY\/jz0fK7KLn5I\/s640\/2013_07+Pets.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This year so far I&#8217;ve received 4 Gold&#8217;s and 10 Highly Commended&#8217;s.&nbsp; And these 10 images will be re-judged at a later date and can be upgraded to Gold if the second judge deems them to be of a Gold standard.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And the most important aspect of this competition is that all Golds get&nbsp;a further assessment in December, this time by a judging panel where the&nbsp;best image in each category is selected&nbsp;giving&nbsp;the photographer the title of Photographer of the Year for that category.&nbsp; These awards are then&nbsp;presented&nbsp;at a black tie&nbsp;awards dinner in London in January at the Societies annual convention, something I look forward to every year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been nominated 4 years out of the past 6 and I&#8217;m determined to make this the year where I walk away with an award.&nbsp; My fingers are crossed and more importantly I&#8217;m still working hard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just loving the Societies Monthly competition this year.&nbsp; It has&nbsp;got me motivated more than usual to keep producing work I think is worthy of entering.&nbsp; This year so far I&#8217;ve received 4 Gold&#8217;s and 10 Highly Commended&#8217;s.&nbsp; And&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}