{"id":13155,"date":"2011-10-27T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:32:10","slug":"brock-days-best-photo-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/brock-days-best-photo-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Days \u201cBest Photo\u201d chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13138\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13138\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?attachment_id=13138\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13138\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13138  \" title=\"Brock cheerleaders in a  parade\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/grace-lin-ding-hot-brock-in-the-parade-bac.jpg\" alt=\"Brock cheerleaders in a parade\" width=\"498\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Best Photo&quot; of the Brock Days 2011 Photo Contest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first Brock Days photo contest drew photos from Brock alumni and students having fun during the annual Brock Days celebrations, Sept. 16 to 25, 2011. Participants tweeted their photos, posted them to the Brock Days Facebook page and emailed their submissions.<\/p>\n<p>The submitted photos reproduced the excitement and celebrations of Brock Days; they showed students and children getting messy at Grape Stomp, Badger pride at the Niagara Wine Festival Grande Parade and alumni reminiscing and celebrating during Alumni Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The photos were judged by a panel of Brock staff, students and alumni. This year\u2019s Best Photo winner, Grace Lin Ding, is a first-year Master of Business Administration student from China.<\/p>\n<p>Ding\u2019s photo captures cheerleaders in formation as they lead Brock\u2019s float in the Niagara Wine Festival Grande Parade. The picture was chosen because of the excitement it expressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in the photo looks extremely happy \u2014 students, cheerleaders, onlookers,\u201d commented one of the contest judges. \u201cThe photographer has captured the essence of the celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13152\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13152\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?attachment_id=13152\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13152\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13152\" title=\"Grace Lin Ding\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/brockdaysphotowinner-thumbnail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Lin Ding\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Lin Ding<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI found a great spot at the parade where the announcers were introducing the floats,\u201d explained Ding. \u201cI stood in that spot for more than two hours taking pictures with my Canon 450.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reward for her winning photo, Ding received a Brock Spirit Pack, a Brock Alumni digital photo frame, a Brock University commemorative photo book and a $50 gift card to Black\u2019s Photography.<\/p>\n<p>Ding was happy to accept the prize but didn\u2019t think she would win. \u201cI entered the photo contest for fun and to take part in University life,\u201d said Ding. \u201cI\u2019m always the person behind the camera \u2014 never the person being featured. I never thought I would win but I\u2019m really excited that I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five additional winners were randomly chosen, simply for participating in the contest. Brock graduates Amaris Gerson (BRLS \u201908), Crispin Bottomley (BA \u201904, BEd \u201905), Brenda Tessmer McIntyre (BBA \u201900), Stephanie Barnes (BBA \u201991) and Brock student Jayne Crawly (third-year psychology) have won either a Brock Alumni digital photo frame or a Brock Spirit Pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Brock Days photo contest drew photos from Brock alumni and students having fun during the annual Brock Days celebrations, Sept. 16 to 25, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13177,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}