{"id":45611,"date":"2014-10-01T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/some-spectacular-photos-for-the-natgeo-2014-contest.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:41:27","slug":"some-spectacular-photos-for-the-natgeo-2014-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/some-spectacular-photos-for-the-natgeo-2014-contest.html","title":{"rendered":"Some spectacular photos for the NatGeo 2014 contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. And these are just from entries so far. Gorgeous stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+In Focus<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>2014 National Geographic Photo Contest<\/b> &#8211; 32 photos &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/csfpyc\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/csfpyc<\/a> &#8211; National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on October 31, 2014. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in its annual photography seminar. The kind folks at National Geographic were once again kind enough to let me choose among its entries so far for display here on In Focus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107085352415573984468\/albums\/6065283407545734241\/6065283416200754930'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-hRpQlUhBpEI\/VCw3Iby2tvI\/AAAAAAAAikg\/6zuXRcIo8tk\/n01_00282201.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107085352415573984468\/albums\/6065283407545734241\/6065283450299432002' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-IwwhrTblqz0\/VCw3Ka0nPEI\/AAAAAAAAiks\/qYxYP5UqxPo\/n02_00281447.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107085352415573984468\/albums\/6065283407545734241\/6065283536871996146' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-bPTyswCmRa4\/VCw3PdVHuvI\/AAAAAAAAik0\/lrrhyQ7YTCk\/n06_00281491.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107085352415573984468\/albums\/6065283407545734241\/6065283552950652082' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-2ipWtjLTwoI\/VCw3QZOkjLI\/AAAAAAAAik8\/i9n7HnDSuUQ\/n07_00279767.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107085352415573984468\/albums\/6065283407545734241'>In Album 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1ZCvQQxQudQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. And these are just from entries so far. Gorgeous stuff. Originally shared by +In Focus: 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest &#8211; 32 photos &#8211; http:\/\/goo.gl\/csfpyc &#8211; National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on October 31, 2014. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/some-spectacular-photos-for-the-natgeo-2014-contest.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some spectacular photos for the NatGeo 2014 contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/n01_00282201.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33916,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/national-geographic-traveler-photos.html","url_meta":{"origin":45611,"position":0},"title":"National Geographic Traveler Photos","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-May-13 1:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool.Reshared post from +In Focus2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest - 42 photos - http:\/\/theatln.tc\/109rKU3 - The 25th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest is under way, and entries will be accepted for another six weeks, until June 30, 2013. 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Winners of the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest National Geographic Magazine just announce the winners of this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/shake-shake-shake-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":45611,"position":2},"title":"Shake-shake-shake","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Jan-13 1:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lovely.Reshared post from +Marco LeschAshley Vincent's perfectly timed photo of a tigress drying off is theGrand Prize Winner of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 #caturday \u00a0http:\/\/500px.com\/photo\/22336915Indochinese Tiger aka Corbett's Tiger (female), Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Chonburi, Thailand Google+: View post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128727,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/08\/the-new-murdoch-owned-national-geographic-is-ready-to-hit-the-racks.html","url_meta":{"origin":45611,"position":3},"title":"The new, Murdoch-owned National Geographic is ready to hit the racks!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Nov-15 3:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The new, Murdoch-owned National Geographic is ready to hit the racks! https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marmel\/status\/663460170022805504 View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/national-geographic-revises-its-atlas-again-to-show-the-shrinking-arctic-ice.html","url_meta":{"origin":45611,"position":4},"title":"National Geographic revises its atlas &#8212; again &#8212; to show the shrinking Arctic ice","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Aug-15 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing to see here ... move along ... #climatechange Yes, Mr. President, We Remade Our Atlas to Reflect Shrinking Ice While discussing his new plan to combat global warming, the President referenced one of the most striking shifts in the history of National Geographic maps. 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