{"id":16374,"date":"2016-01-04T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2016-01-04T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:56:37","slug":"i-won-the-fan-favorite-wnyc-best-picture-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/i-won-the-fan-favorite-wnyc-best-picture-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"I won the Fan Favorite @WNYC Best Picture contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in a 2015 end-of-year contest I heard announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WNYC<\/a> to upload your &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/best-picture-sitting-your-phone-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">best picture still sitting on your phone.<\/a>&#8221; I went with my image of a journey exiting the Catskills one August morning shortly after a light morning rain:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"6\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/8dGC_BI4Hy\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">#TheCatskills<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Nick Normal (@nicknormalius) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-10-05T11:41:29+00:00\">Oct 5, 2015 at 4:41am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I love this image. 10 seconds before I took it the light wasn&#8217;t like this, and 10 seconds later this light was gone; it was truly fleeting, and I&#8217;m thankful my cameraphone worked fast enough to capture it! And at the perfect spot, with that winding road, house off in the distance, foothills beyond, and that sky &#8211; I love the American road.<\/p>\n<p>So I entered it into the contest &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/your-best-phone-pictures-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">then I won the Fan Favorite (most votes) title<\/a>! Seek to the 8:00 mark to hear Brian Lehrer &#038; Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York) talk about my image:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"130\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/wnyc\/#file=\/audio\/json\/563069\/&#038;share=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yayyy!!<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in a 2015 end-of-year contest I heard announced on WNYC to upload your &#8220;best picture still sitting on your phone.&#8221; I went with my image of a journey exiting the Catskills one August morning shortly after a light morning rain: #TheCatskills A photo posted by Nick Normal (@nicknormalius) on Oct 5, 2015 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[895,1308],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-radio","tag-wnyc"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Nick_most_votes.jpeg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16385,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions\/16385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}