{"id":21265,"date":"2015-09-29T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21265"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T01:22:14","slug":"photo-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/photo-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pumpho.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eric Ahrendt of Orinda, Calif. won 1st place prize in an annual contest, 2015 Freeze Frame Photo Competition, sponsored by the Tri-Valley Conservancy (trivalleyconservancy.org). The picture of\u00a0bucolic Joan&#8217;s Farm and Pumpkin Patch was selected because it showcases the diverse and striking natural beauty of the Tri-Valley that the non-profit organization strives to protect, according to contest judges. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-pumpkins.html\">pumpkins<\/a> are\u00a0extremely\u00a0popular icons this time of year. \u00a0Photo contests abound in California. County fairs, cities and chambers of commerce offer them, as well\u00a0as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/birds-steal-show-in-california-watchable-wildlife-photo-contest\/\">California Watchable Wildlife<\/a>. Prizes vary &#8212; sometimes\u00a0bragging rights are your reward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 PHOTO CONTESTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CALABASAS: Spirit of the Mountains,\u00a0entries Oct.3-17, 2015, \u00a0nps.gov\/samo\/photocontest.htm<\/li>\n<li>CARPINTERIA: 93013 Photo Contest Oct. 5, 2015 deadline, sbtrails.org<\/li>\n<li>CORONADO: \u00a0My Coronado,\u00a0ends Oct. 9, 2015 approx., coronado.ca.us<\/li>\n<li>DAVIS: The Best of Davis, submissions Sept.1-30, 2015,\u00a0contests.cityofdavis.org<\/li>\n<li>HUMBOLDT COUNTY: 101 Things, submissions by Oct.\u00a015, 2015, 101things.com\/humboldt\/101-things-to-do-photo-contest\/<\/li>\n<li>LAKE FOREST: The City We Live In Calendar (Photo) Contest, through Oct. 14, 2015, lakeforestca.gov<\/li>\n<li>MILPITAS: Santa Clara County Library District ebook photo contest through Oct. 15, 2015, sccl.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN BERNARDINO: San Bernardino Transit Center #mySBTC Photo Contest, through Oct.6, 2015, omnitrans.org<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA: City Photo Contest, through Sept. 30, 2015, santa-clarita.com<\/li>\n<li>VENTURA: City Photo Contest, \u00a0by Nov. 1, 2015,\u00a0cityofventura.net\/photocontest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Ahrendt of Orinda, Calif. won 1st place prize in an annual contest, 2015 Freeze Frame Photo Competition, sponsored by the Tri-Valley Conservancy (trivalleyconservancy.org). The picture of\u00a0bucolic Joan&#8217;s Farm and Pumpkin Patch was selected because it showcases the diverse and striking natural beauty of the Tri-Valley that the non-profit organization strives to protect, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}