{"id":30681,"date":"2013-01-04T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=30681"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:39:07","slug":"best-photo-of-the-year-competition-ended-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/best-photo-of-the-year-competition-ended-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Photo of the Year Competition Ended 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the winners of our \u201cBest Photo of the Year Competition 2012\u201d, which had the highest subscriber participation of any of our previous competitions. Walter Baliero is the clear winner of First Prize with his outstanding photo \u201cAndean hummingbird\u201d. Fabiola Forns wins Second Prize with \u201cAtlantic Puffin with Sand Eel\u201d and Don Getty wins Third Prize with \u201cSandhill Crane Flying in Snowstorm\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29558\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 960px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Andean-hummingbird-by-Walter-Baliero.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Andean-hummingbird-by-Walter-Baliero.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Andean-hummingbird-by-Walter-Baliero.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, 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height=\"683\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Atlantic Puffin with sand eel by Fabiola Forns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27051\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1010px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sandhill-Crane-Flying-in-Snowstorm-by-Don-Getty.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sandhill-Crane-Flying-in-Snowstorm-by-Don-Getty.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Sandhill-Crane-Flying-in-Snowstorm-by-Don-Getty.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, 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height=\"667\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Sandhill Crane Flying in Snowstorm by Don Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The voting for all entries can be seen on the link \u2013 Best Photo of the Year 2012 Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Best Photo of 2012 Competition Winners \u2013 Conditions of Entry<\/p>\n<p>1) Entries have been taken from the winners of the individual competitions held in 2012.<br \/>\n2) Vote soliciting for individual entries on Facebook is not allowed<br \/>\n3) Winning photos will be featured on our banner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the winners of our \u201cBest Photo of the Year Competition 2012\u201d, which had the highest subscriber participation of any of our previous competitions. Walter Baliero is the clear winner of First Prize with his outstanding photo \u201cAndean hummingbird\u201d. Fabiola Forns wins Second Prize with \u201cAtlantic Puffin with Sand Eel\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2150931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3173,5],"tags":[2684,2778,2685],"class_list":["post-30681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-wildlife","tag-best-photo-of-the-year","tag-best-photo-of-the-year-competition","tag-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}