{"id":380,"date":"2006-08-28T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=380"},"modified":"2006-08-28T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T04:22:38","slug":"one-of-my-photos-chosen-for-bbc-photographer-of-the-year-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/28\/one-of-my-photos-chosen-for-bbc-photographer-of-the-year-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my photos chosen for BBC Photographer of the Year 2006!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/215580085\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/80\/215580085_e3bca2aee9_m.jpg?resize=240%2C196\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\" alt=\"At attention\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m absolutely flabbergasted!  The pictured above got selected from over 2,000 entries as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/5272058.stm\">12 finalists in Round 3<\/a> (whose theme was &#8220;Uniform&#8221;) of the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/4773297.stm\">Photographer of the Year 2006 competition<\/a>, and I only just found out!  I submitted this (and some other photos) 2+ weeks ago, and then forgot all about it due to being swamped with semester prep.  (Sadly, it took a Google alert to bring it to my attention, which says way too much about my abysmal mail spool management.)<\/p>\n<p>The voting ended days ago (so I can&#8217;t beg for votes, or even vote myself), and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/5278422.stm\">it looks like it died pretty bad in the popular vote<\/a> (almost certainly small single digit percentages).  But, hey, being chosen as one of 12 out of over 2K is pretty darn cool!  Amazing!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/photography\/\" title=\"Photography\">Photography<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/wonderful-little-film-about-paul-rand\/\" title=\"Wonderful little film about Paul Rand (18 Nov 07)\">Wonderful little film about Paul Rand<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/with-joy-shall-ye-draw-water\/\" title=\"With joy shall ye draw water (20 Nov 07)\">With joy shall ye draw water<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m absolutely flabbergasted! The pictured above got selected from over 2,000 entries as one of the 12 finalists in Round 3 (whose theme was &#8220;Uniform&#8221;) of the BBC&#8217;s Photographer of the Year 2006 competition, and I only just found out! I submitted this (and some other photos) 2+ weeks ago, and then forgot all about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/28\/one-of-my-photos-chosen-for-bbc-photographer-of-the-year-2006\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One of my photos chosen for BBC Photographer of the Year 2006!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[869],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-68","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":932,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/03\/01\/cool-people-from-the-50-states-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":0},"title":"Cool people from the 50 States Project","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"1 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"The50 States Project looks like a potentially interesting idea: Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they live. 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