{"id":3877,"date":"2018-08-30T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:43:56","slug":"2018-photo-contest-winners-annoucement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/2018-photo-contest-winners-annoucement","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the winners of the 2018 photo contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travellers, we love seeing other people\u2019s travel photos for inspiration, and we especially love seeing the travel photos of people who we helped to get there.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we received more than 400\u00a0entries! As you can imagine, it was an extremely difficult task choosing the winners out of hundreds of wonderful photos. With the help of our staff, these are the winning shots:<\/p>\n<p><strong>World&#8217;s best teacher |\u00a0<\/strong><em>Michelle D., \u2018Selfie stick shenanigans.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-510x383.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Canadian experience |\u00a0<\/strong><em>Riley D., \u2018Sunrise at Vimy Ridge.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2-510x509.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The moment when |\u00a0<\/strong><em>Braeden R., \u2018Hanging with my furry friend in Gibraltar.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-510x509.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultural connections |\u00a0<\/strong><em>Amadea G., \u2018My trip to Greece with Explorica was truly the trip of a lifetime and I am forever thankful to have had the opportunity to travel to such an amazing country.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1-510x509.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A sense of adventure | <\/strong><em>Jason J., \u2018Experience of a lifetime!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/4-1-510x383.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travellers, we love seeing other people\u2019s travel photos for inspiration, and we especially love seeing the travel photos of people who we helped to get there. This year, we received more than 400\u00a0entries! As you can imagine, it was an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/2018-photo-contest-winners-annoucement\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}