{"id":1435,"date":"2011-03-16T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T05:46:20","slug":"another-better-late-then-never-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/another-better-late-then-never-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Another (Better Late Then Never) Accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I entered into a prestigious international photography competition, the <a title=\"Honorable mention in the prestigious Black and White Spider Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thespiderawards.com\/gallery5\/gallery.php?x=p&amp;cid=41&amp;g=w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black and White Spider Awards<\/a>.\u00a0 From their site: &#8220;With a collective Judging Panel of the world\u2019s most recognized experts  from SOTHEBY\u2019S, TATE, MAGNUM PHOTOS, FRATELLI ALINARI, ARMORY SHOW,  BONHAMS of London and more, the awards are the industry\u2019s most  authoritative and important photographic event for black and white and  mono art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A few months after I entered, not giving it much thought after that, I received notice in the mail of being awarded an HONORABLE MENTION for one of the images I submitted.\u00a0 My husband somehow knew he should make a big deal of it.\u00a0 Not me, I acted very dense and was like &#8220;Yeah yeah yeah, they probably give those awards out to everyone just for entering.&#8221;\u00a0 A few days later it occurred to me that I should investigate it.<\/p>\n<p>Among thousands of entries they select a few hundred to get into the next stage of nomination.\u00a0 From there they choose their top six in each category.\u00a0 This image placed as an Honorable Mention in the advertising category behind the top three.\u00a0 I have to say that I feel pretty dense about not recognizing that HEY!\u00a0 This is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1436\" title=\"For Sale\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PrettyGirlweb.jpg\" alt=\"Advertising Honorable Mention, Black and White Spider Awards\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PrettyGirlweb.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PrettyGirlweb-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">FOR SALE (with Chloe the adorable Terrier)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you for allowing me to share this sort of big deal honor.\u00a0 I should probably start paying more attention when Karma brings good things, eh?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black and White Spider Awards are a prestigious competition for black and white photography artists.  One of my pieces was awarded Honorable Mention in Advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[313,1],"tags":[309,311,308,310,306,312],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-miscellaneous-photo-related","tag-advertising","tag-award","tag-award-winning-photographer","tag-black-and-white","tag-competition","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}