{"id":1530,"date":"2012-09-07T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/test\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2012-09-08T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:13:47","slug":"august-photo-competition-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"August Photo Competition ~ The Result"},"content":{"rendered":"

The theme for the August photo competition was \u201cBeach and Sea\u201d. If you\u2019re a regular blog reader, you\u2019ll be aware that it\u2019s been some time since I ran one of these and this time I only gave you just under two weeks instead of the usual month.<\/p>\n

None the less you lot really pulled out the stops with a whopping 134 photos being entered and I\u2019d like to thank everyone that got into the spirit of the competition. You can view all the entries by going to the Flickr group page.<\/a><\/p>\n

As always I looked at all 134 entries very carefully and over the course of a few days I whittled down the number. Usually the first photos I reject are those which are several years old as the idea is to encourage you to go out and take a photo for the competition, not upload an old favourite. However due to the short time scale I gave you I didn\u2019t do that this time round.<\/p>\n

There were so many amazing photos it all came down to personal taste (mine in this case), so I selected my favourite photos and the best of those made it into the top 10 as seen below.<\/p>\n

To be honest there were several photos which could have easily taken the top spot as I think they\u2019re outstanding. However there can only be one winner and this month the winner is\u2026Untitled By PhotoPcola<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DSC_6925-Edit\"<\/a><\/p>\n

David will be getting a copy of his print made by my good friends over at Print Yours<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Near Misses\u2026<\/strong>
The runners up in no particular order are below (keep scrolling down to the find the photos). This time I\u2019ve made a short video looking at why the top 10 are where they are, I hope it helps and remember all the opinions are mine so I don\u2019t expect everyone to agree, especially if you took the photo \"Winking<\/p>\n

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Click on an image to view it large on Flickr. If you didn\u2019t win this time there will be a new challenge. Details are coming soon.<\/p>\n

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\"red<\/a> 
Eric Masurier photography<\/a><\/td>\n		 
\"Sunset...\"
Giuliano Miola<\/a><\/td>\n		 
\"Herne<\/a>
essexdiver<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Sun,<\/a> 
Phil-Williams<\/a><\/td>\n		\"Playa<\/a> 
Shadi Nassri<\/a><\/td>\n		\"Durdle<\/a>
Steven’s Photo’s<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"orange<\/a>
.e.mage<\/a><\/td>\n		\"My
Srivatsa Gundala<\/a><\/td>\n		\"sunny<\/a>
benrobson2999<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The theme for the August photo competition was \u201cBeach and Sea\u201d. If you\u2019re a regular blog reader, you\u2019ll be aware that it\u2019s been some time since I ran one of these and this time I only gave you just under two weeks instead of the usual month. None the less you lot really pulled out … Continue reading August Photo Competition ~ The Result<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}