{"id":6103,"date":"2011-09-26T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2011-09-26T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T12:55:58","slug":"ihf-challenge-best-of-summer-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/ihf-challenge-best-of-summer-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"IHF Challenge: Best of Summer 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>hen I saw that this week&#8217;s theme on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartfaces.com\/2011\/09\/photo-challenge-peoples-choice\/\">I Heart Faces photography challenge<\/a> was &#8220;your best picture of Summer 2011&#8221; I knew exactly which picture I would submit.  I must admit, I took a lot (no, really? A LOT!) of pictures that I truly adore this summer, but this one is my very favourite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6147831399\/\" title=\"264:365 Traveling Man by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6066\/6147831399_46a9043565.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" alt=\"264:365 Traveling Man\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I love it partly because it turned out so well, and partly because it is *exactly* what I set out to do.  No more happy accidents &#8211; this one was intentional, from tone to set-up to colour choices to lighting.  Definitely my favourite photo from what was truly an incredibly photogenic summer!  (I&#8217;ve got some adorable pictures to share with you later this week from a session this weekend with twin 21-month-old boys and their four-year-old brother, and on Saturday I&#8217;m shooting a wedding &#8212; I can hardly wait!!)<\/p>\n<p>To see some really amazing contributions, as well as some great tips and tutorials &#8211; or to play along yourself! &#8211; check them out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iheartfaces.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/I-Heart-Faces-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I-Heart-Faces-button\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/I-Heart-Faces-button.jpg 160w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/I-Heart-Faces-button-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 85vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw that this week&#8217;s theme on the I Heart Faces photography challenge was &#8220;your best picture of Summer 2011&#8221; I knew exactly which picture I would submit. I must admit, I took a lot (no, really? A LOT!) of pictures that I truly adore this summer, but this one is my very favourite. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/ihf-challenge-best-of-summer-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IHF Challenge: Best of Summer 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6106,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}