{"id":2024,"date":"2009-09-23T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahtew.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/23\/my-photo-won-10th-place-in-wpja-contest-creative-portraiture-category\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:02:19","slug":"my-photo-won-10th-place-in-wpja-contest-creative-portraiture-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/my-photo-won-10th-place-in-wpja-contest-creative-portraiture-category\/","title":{"rendered":"My winning photo from the WPJA contest: Creative Portraiture category!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news!  I just got word that my image placed among the top ten in the last Wedding Photojournalist Association contest&#8230; I entered several categories of course but this is the first time I&#8217;ve been named to the prestigious winners&#8217; circle&#8230; The WPJA is wildly popular among photographers and has thousands of members worldwide.  They recently started giving every member a certain number of free entries per year, at which point I thought to myself &#8220;now the competition will be tougher than ever&#8230;&#8221; but what do you know?!  I finally did it!   Now if I can just win one of those PDN (Photo District News) Top Knots awards!  Oh how I long to be listed in those pages&#8230; one never knows why certain images win out over others.  Personally I might have rated my other entry in this category (Creative Portraiture) higher than the one that the judges picked, but of course I love this one too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpja.com\/wedding-photographers\/wedding-photojournalist-profile\/1656-new-york-citymetro-sarah-tew.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click to see winning image on WPJA.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news! I just got word that my image placed among the top ten in the last Wedding Photojournalist Association contest&#8230; I entered several categories of course but this is the first time I&#8217;ve been named to the prestigious winners&#8217; circle&#8230; The WPJA is wildly popular among photographers and has thousands of members worldwide. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8,10,11,40,18],"tags":[76],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}