{"id":9164,"date":"2019-09-03T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:07:04","slug":"2019-photo-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/2019-photo-contest-winners","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our 2019 Photo Contest Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travelers, 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 about 3,000 entries! As you can imagine, it was an extremely difficult task choosing the winners out of thousands of wonderful photos. With the help of our staff, these are the winning shots:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0095d4;\">World\u2019s best teacher<\/span>\u00a0| Seth C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/peru.aspx\">Peru<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;World&#8217;s best teacher ever!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19teacher-820x819.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0095d4;\">Cultural connections<\/span>|\u00a0Eva G., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/make-a-difference-dominican-republic.aspx\">Make a Difference:\u00a0Dominican Republic<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Dancing!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural.jpg 1708w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19Cultural-820x575.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0095d4;\">Lights, camera, action! \u2014 INTL<\/span>| Adiel, M., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/Search.aspx?q=costa%20rica\">Costa Rica<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I aimed to show the way we lived during those 9 days and how much fun we had going from adventure to adventure.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/356897922?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"INTL Lights Camera Action, 2019 Photo Contest Winner\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0095d4;\">Lights, camera, action! \u2014 NA<\/span>| Taylor S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/new-york-city-isle-of-manhattan.aspx\">Isle of Manhattan<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;A Taste Of New York City.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/356903075?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"NA Lights Camera Action, 2019 Photo Contest Winner\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>and our grand prize winner&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #f7941d;\">A Sense of Adventure<\/span>| TKay C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/ecuador-andes-amazon-adventure.aspx\">Ecuador<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>&#8220;A Taste Of New York City.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #f7941d;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/19adventure-772x1024.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual photo contest is something that Exploricans look forward to every year. As avid travelers, 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 about 3,000 entries! As you can imagine, it was an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/2019-photo-contest-winners\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}