{"id":6902,"date":"2012-04-25T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:02:16","slug":"proudest-canadian-photographer-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/proudest-canadian-photographer-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Proudest Canadian photographer EVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>hen I got my royalty statement from Getty Images last week, I was pretty excited.  Not only was it my highest-grossing month to date with 10 sales, but it had some pretty interesting-sounding buyers: a couple of European ad agencies, Microsoft (!), and Macleans magazine.  I was particularly curious about the Macleans one, not only because it paid a pretty penny.  Not in my wildest dreams could I picture a more awesome use than this!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6967076246\/\" title=\"Proud Canadian by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7048\/6967076246_ccf17d8b95_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Proud Canadian\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See that bottom-centre photograph of the skaters? I took that one on my lunch break on a freezing but brilliant day back in January!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6792535373\/\" title=\"Skating on the Rideau Canal - Beginners by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7147\/6792535373_3f9732f2f6.jpg\"  class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Skating on the Rideau Canal - Beginners\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about proud Canadian moments! <\/p>\n<p>And I found this one, too, which isn&#8217;t nearly as awesome but interesting nonetheless:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/7090164799\/\" title=\"Found in the wild - Caiman sale by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7186\/7090164799_c04033f0fa.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Found in the wild - Caiman sale\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6268531889\/\">my picture of a caiman<\/a>, snapped at the boys&#8217; school Halloween party featuring Little Ray&#8217;s Reptile Zoo, masquerading as a crocodile on the website for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/weird\/Snakes-Crocodiles-Komodo-Dragons-Poisonous-Frogs-Smuggled-Onboard-Bus-142343325.html\">NBC Miami, channel 6<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I tell you, between having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6528278977\/\">picture of Lucas and Willie<\/a> used to support the concept of &#8220;cutest kid\/pet picture ever&#8221; and Macleans using this one to define the ultimate Canadian moment, Getty has been doing as much to boost my ego as line my pocketbook!<\/p>\n<p>So you think this qualifies to enter as a &#8220;Proudest Canadian&#8221; moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got my royalty statement from Getty Images last week, I was pretty excited. Not only was it my highest-grossing month to date with 10 sales, but it had some pretty interesting-sounding buyers: a couple of European ad agencies, Microsoft (!), and Macleans magazine. I was particularly curious about the Macleans one, not only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/proudest-canadian-photographer-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proudest Canadian photographer EVER!&#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":[97,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902","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=6902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6906,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}