{"id":5855,"date":"2018-05-07T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:08:07","slug":"2018-shoot-and-share-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/virginia-photographer\/2018-shoot-and-share-photo-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2018-Shoot and Share Photo Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, I entered the Shoot and Share Contest for 2018! This year, a total of 11,351 photographers participated from all over the world and submitted a total of 413,065 photos. This contest allows a total of 50 photos to be submitted in 25 different categories. I managed to make the top 100 this year in the wedding details category! Overall I received a Top 100, 2 finalists, 1 in the top 10%, 4 in the top 20% and 4 in the top 30% which is an improvement from last year. Here are my stats:<\/p>\n

This photo was taken at golden hour at a cotton field out in Surry, Virginia. It came in as a Top 100! It ranked 22\/16,755 photos submitted in the wedding details category.
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Same ring, different day. Ranked 410\/16,755 photos (category – wedding details)
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We had a lot of snow in January and this Cardinal added a pop of color to our landscape. This little red bird came in at 181\/14,426 photos (category – pets\/animals
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This senior session ended with a dance silhouette against the sunset in Norfolk, Virginia. Ranked 1,415\/14,733 photos (category – people portraits)
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Yes, there was a category for this! Ranked 771\/3,943 photos (category – that just happened)
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This is a favorite of mine captured at sunset at Captain Chuck-A-Mucks<\/a> in\u00a0Rescue, Virginia. Ranked 2,116\/16,373 photos (category – travel\/landscape)
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How cute is this photo of these two Australian Shepherds? Ranked 2,119\/14,426 photos(category – pets\/animals)
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Ranked 2,790\/16,373 photos (category – travel\/landscape)
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Ranked 4,534\/16,373 photos (category – travel\/landscape)
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Ranked 3,674\/14,426 photos (category – pets\/animals)
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Ranked 3,860\/14,426 photos (category – pets\/animals)
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Ranked 3,880\/16,755 photos (category – wedding details)
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Until next year….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I entered the Shoot and Share Contest for 2018! This year, a total of 11,351 photographers participated from all over the world and submitted a total of 413,065 photos. This contest allows a total of 50 photos to be submitted in 25 different categories. I managed to make the top 100 this year in the wedding details category! Overall I received a Top 100, 2 finalists, 1 in.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[110,267,29,34],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-family-photographer","tag-pet-photographer","tag-portrait-photographer","tag-wedding-photographer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunset-Snow_0624.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DZQz-1wr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}