{"id":491,"date":"2010-09-05T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2010-09-05T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T13:13:00","slug":"finally-another-gold-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Another Gold Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I&#8217;ve won a gold in the SWPP&#8217;s monthly competition.&nbsp; But finally I&#8217;ve done it again.&nbsp; I must admit that I&#8217;ve not been entering much lately.&nbsp; The motivation to compete has been lost somewhat in recent months but as a spur of the moment decision I decided to enter a few for the month of August.&nbsp; And amazingly I had only taken the winning image earlier that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until late evening, just before I was due to log off that I suddenly remembered that it was the 31st.&nbsp; The last day to enter.&nbsp; I had just over an hour to submit my entries.&nbsp; I perused through my images trying to decide what, if anything, was competition worthy.&nbsp; I narrowed it down to 5 for various different categories.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Amazingly the very next day the category with my winning entry had been judged.&nbsp; And there beneath my photo sat a G for Gold.&nbsp; So this photo will now go forward to the annual awards giving me the chance to win Baby Photographer of the Year.&nbsp; This will make the awards dinner in London in January all the more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>This is my Gold winning entry.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_o819gUGKYGQ\/TH_lVJO4TdI\/AAAAAAAAA7g\/oKS90zlUl2M\/s1600\/1008+-+Baby+-+G.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" ox=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_o819gUGKYGQ\/TH_lVJO4TdI\/AAAAAAAAA7g\/oKS90zlUl2M\/s400\/1008+-+Baby+-+G.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I&#8217;ve won a gold in the SWPP&#8217;s monthly competition.&nbsp; But finally I&#8217;ve done it again.&nbsp; I must admit that I&#8217;ve not been entering much lately.&nbsp; The motivation to compete has been lost somewhat in recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinalauderportraits.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}