{"id":1004292,"date":"2012-06-16T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004292"},"modified":"2012-06-16T07:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T12:17:38","slug":"first-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/photography\/2012\/06\/16\/first-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"First Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld.jpg\" alt=\"Sand Wasp, Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus\" title=\"ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1004293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_SandWasp_SmallWorld-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been entering some of my photos in various contests for a little under a year now, and this Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus took first prize in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com\/contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 NYC Audubon Camera Club Contest<\/a>.  It&#8217;s my first photo to place in a contest. <\/p>\n<p>This Brown Pelican from Jim Neiger and Doug Brown&#8217;s 2011 West Coast Flight School at Bolsa Chica just missed making the final cut as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, coming in for a landing\" title=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_BrownPelicanLanding_Birds-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The judges weren&#8217;t as fond of my third entry. a pair of Royal Terns I shot in Cuba. They thought it was too closely cropped. It&#8217;s one of my few shots where a full frame camera or a shorter lens might have helped, but it&#8217;s still one of my personal favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Terns \" title=\"ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ElliotteHarold_RoyalTerns_Birds-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next stop: BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year. :-) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004292"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004306,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004292\/revisions\/1004306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}