{"id":1247,"date":"2010-06-02T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T23:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:26:08","slug":"bad-portrait-photography-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/2010\/06\/bad-portrait-photography-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Worst Portrait&#8221; Contest Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly offer a number of photography contests for individuals of all ages.  My most recent contest (\u201cCharacters\u201d) was geared to children enrolled at Livonia Little Tots.\u00a0 It received a huge response from local parents; almost 100 votes were cast between the two finalists.<\/p>\n<p>This time, due to the popularity of sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/awkwardfamilyphotos.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com<\/a> and Great Olan Mills Photos where, in their words, <em>Total frickin&#8217; awesomeness from Olan Mills, Sears and other fine portrait studios<\/em> is highlighted, I&#8217;ve decided to offer a contest for people on the receiving end of a completely hopeless portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike my other photography contests where the entrants had to be within a specific age bracket, the only requirement is  for you to have a \u201cbad portrait\u201d taken  from a chain photography  location like Sears, J.C. Penny, Portrait  Innovations or Kiddee  Kandids.\u00a0 Of course, this includes other franchises like Olan Mills and Life Touch for school photos, too!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had a bad portrait taken within the past 3 years, I want to hear about it!\u00a0 Enter it.\u00a0 Brag about it.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be determined entirely by popular vote online and will receive a FREE portrait session and 8&#215;10 print to replace their winning &#8220;bad portrait&#8221;.\u00a0 Have a bad family portrait?\u00a0 Enter to win a free family session.\u00a0 Have a bad child portrait?\u00a0 Enter to win a free child photography session.\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t be easier.\u00a0 In addition to the free session, the winner will also receive a free 8&#215;10 print of their favorite proof.<\/p>\n<p>Nominating a photo for &#8220;The Worst Portrait&#8221; couldn&#8217;t be easier.\u00a0 Simply fill out the form below from June 1 to June 30, 2010 and upload a photo (Minimum size: 600&#215;800 pixels)!\u00a0 The online voting will take place from July 1 through July 31, 2010.\u00a0 Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><iframe height=\"1161\" allowTransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/paulmanoian.com\/forms\/embed.php?id=10\" title=\"The Worst Portrait Contest\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paulmanoian.com\/forms\/view.php?id=10\" title=\"The Worst Portrait Contest\">The Worst Portrait Contest<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly offer a number of photography contests for individuals of all ages. My most recent contest (\u201cCharacters\u201d) was geared to children enrolled at Livonia Little Tots.\u00a0 It received a huge response from local parents; almost 100 votes were cast between the two finalists. This time, due to the popularity of sites like AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_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":[39],"tags":[40,141],"sp_smart_badges":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contests","7":"tag-contest","8":"tag-the-worst-portrait","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Manoian","author_link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/author\/manoian\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"sp_smart_badges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sp_smart_badges?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}