{"id":15058,"date":"2013-01-30T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=15058"},"modified":"2013-03-09T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T14:28:51","slug":"january-photo-competition-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=15058","title":{"rendered":"January Photo Competition &#8211; Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Solitude<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were 135 submissions to this month&#8217;s competition and the judges awarded 34 ribbons. The theme of the competition was &#8220;solitude&#8221; and it was open to the interpretation of the photographer. Nevertheless, the judges kept remarking, &#8220;solitude does not mean solitary&#8221;. Based on the judges own comments I&#8217;m not sure they were always on the same page but then again it isn&#8217;t an easy concept to deliver on. The judges were Raymond Aubin, Ela Kinowska and Bill Young. Their bios are at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?page_id=15012\">http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?page_id=15012<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once again there was no Print of the Night or Slide of the Night as no one achieved a score higher than 25. The following lists the winners but all of the awarded photographs can be seen on the RA Photo Club web site under <strong>Competitions (Winners Gallery).<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>On Topic Slides<\/strong><br \/>\n1st place intermediate &#8211; Freeman Keats- Into the Sunset (23)<br \/>\n1st place junior &#8211; Dan Beaudry &#8211; Contemplation (24)<br \/>\n<strong>On Topic Prints<\/strong><br \/>\n1st place intermediate &#8211; David Wray &#8211; Alone in Darkness (23)<br \/>\n<strong>General Print<\/strong><br \/>\n1st place intermediate &#8211; Michel Dorais -Chester (24)<br \/>\n<strong>General Slide<\/strong><br \/>\n1st place Senior &#8211; Jamie Johnson &#8211; Dumped at the Spencerville Rodeo (25)<br \/>\n1st place intermediate &#8211; Mary Lee &#8211; Building Reflections (22)<br \/>\n1st place junior &#8211; lok Ping Ng &#8211; Rice Fields (25)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=15070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15070\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15070\" alt=\"Rice Fields\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lokPingNg-RAPC-3f9eb308a675829e1bec7d1921fed884-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lokPingNg-RAPC-3f9eb308a675829e1bec7d1921fed884.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/lokPingNg-RAPC-3f9eb308a675829e1bec7d1921fed884.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rice Fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=15069\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15069\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15069\" alt=\"Dumped at the Spencerville Rodeo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/JamieJohnson-RAPC-2adb67f45505b2451ed493a5700cdb13-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/JamieJohnson-RAPC-2adb67f45505b2451ed493a5700cdb13.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/JamieJohnson-RAPC-2adb67f45505b2451ed493a5700cdb13.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumped at the Spencerville Rodeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'15058','like')\" >Likes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/up.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'15058','dislike')\" >Dislikes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/down.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solitude There were 135 submissions to this month&#8217;s competition and the judges awarded 34 ribbons. The theme of the competition was &#8220;solitude&#8221; and it was open to the interpretation of the photographer. Nevertheless, the judges kept remarking, &#8220;solitude does not mean solitary&#8221;. Based on the judges own comments I&#8217;m not sure they were always on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[27],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qnxV-3US","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}