{"id":3157,"date":"2011-06-18T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2011-06-18T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:59:34","slug":"recreate-a-lake-district-scene-and-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2011\/06\/recreate-a-lake-district-scene-and-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreate a Lake District scene and win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being regular visitors to the Lake District, and the surrounding areas, we were interested in finding out more about a competition we had heard of to recreate a Lake District photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake District National Park is celebrating 60 years with a competition open to all photographers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here are the details:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The special \u201cnow and then\u201d competition closes on\u00a0Monday, 18 July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Lake District National Park Authority web editor, Helen Reynolds, is urging everyone to take advantage of the long summer days to get out into the national park with their cameras.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/06\/ennerdale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3158\" title=\"The Lake District features some fantastic scenery\" src=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/06\/ennerdale-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The Lake District features some fantastic scenery\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lake District features some fantastic scenery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten iconic historic images of the national park \u2013 including the Langdale Pikes in the 1940s, Wasdale in 1900 and Windermere Ferry in the 1960s &#8211; have been put on the <a title=\"LDNPA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakedistrict.gov.uk\/60thbirthdaycompetition\" target=\"_blank\">authority\u2019s website<\/a> with the challenge of recreating all or part of the images to have a modern day makeover.<\/p>\n<p>Three prizes are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First prize<\/strong> &#8211; a money can&#8217;t buy dining experience &#8211; a once in a lifetime exclusive dinner served on the jetty at Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second prize<\/strong> &#8211; indulge your inner pirate &#8211; sail away for a morning or afternoon on a self-drive motor boat, on Coniston Water which inspired Arthur Ransome&#8217;s classic children&#8217;s tale &#8220;Swallows and Amazons&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third prize<\/strong> &#8211; foodie heaven &#8211; receive a luxury Lake District hamper packed to the brim with delicious local produce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of how to enter are all available on the <a title=\"Lake District National Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakedistrict.gov.uk\/60thbirthdaycompetition\" target=\"_blank\">national park website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Reynolds said: &#8220;People can submit as many entries as they want, so give us your best shot at recreating a view from the past with a 21st century twist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being regular visitors to the Lake District, and the surrounding areas, we were interested in finding out more about a competition we had heard of to recreate a Lake District photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,18],"tags":[3453,3458,3261,3438,3457,3456,3439,3443,3455,1210,1509,3442,3450,3444,3451,3452,3437,3446,3454,2301],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-spreading-the-word","tag-18-july","tag-1940s","tag-1960s","tag-arthur-ransome","tag-authority-web","tag-brim","tag-coniston-water","tag-helen-reynolds","tag-jetty","tag-lake-district","tag-lake-district-national-park","tag-langdale-pikes","tag-local-produce","tag-luxury-lake","tag-motor-boat","tag-self-drive","tag-swallows-and-amazons","tag-wasdale","tag-web-editor","tag-windermere","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ennerdale-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ennerdale-600x450.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}