{"id":10261,"date":"2013-11-02T10:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:10:53","slug":"up-your-photo-game-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/up-your-photo-game-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Up your Photo Game {contest}"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Hi all! If you&#8217;re looking for a fantastic way to get out of a creative rut or to push your photography skills, I highly recommend getting involved with Instagram or Flickr groups. This morning, I had the lovely surprise of being nominated for <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stagram.com\/p\/580222953371356427_13493730\">photo of the month with @childrenphoto on Instagram<\/a> with the above photo. A fellow photographer found my photo and asked me to tag it in their group, so I did, and then the same photographer nominated me. I&#8217;ve never been in a voting contest before as I&#8217;ve never entered, however, this honor is pretty cool. Tag your Instagram photos #ourchildrenphoto to be added to this group and be considered for daily and monthly contests.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was a blessed, split-second capture and one of my all-time most meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>My Instagram photos can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cottagearts\">@cottagearts<\/a>, and are about 99% iPhone 5 shots going forward, with a focus on nature. The above image was shot with a Canon 7D.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifttt.com\">IFTTT<\/a>, my Instagram images are auto posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/michelle_shefveland\/\">Flickr<\/a>, too. Isn&#8217;t technology amazing?!!!<\/p>\n<p>Regarding upping your game, a favorite group I subscribe to on Instagram for daily challenges is <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stagram.com\/n\/joshjohnson\/\">@joshjohnson<\/a>. Really motivating daily inspiration! Such talent in the phoneography community; I am in awe.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on Instagram, say hi! And letting your creativity soar. I normally post a photo or two a week, but do hope to get more active going into winter.<\/p>\n<p>FYI&#8230;my last three Digital Workshop how-to articles for Somerset Memories Magazine have focused on creating art with your cell phone photos. See more information on my latest article on our blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=10186\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/thisli5sc.html\">this is life 5 scrap.words<\/a>, iPhone 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See more phoneography tips, app faves, and inspiration on our blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?cat=64\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy shooting!<\/p>\n<p>Michelle and team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all! If you&#8217;re looking for a fantastic way to get out of a creative rut or to push your photography skills, I highly recommend getting involved with Instagram or Flickr groups. This morning, I had the lovely surprise of being nominated for photo of the month with @childrenphoto on Instagram with the above photo. A fellow photographer found my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-phoneography","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}