{"id":4710,"date":"2014-06-05T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:14:56","slug":"1078-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/1078-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"#1078 Student Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/1078-student-success\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week we were very pleased to hear from long-time photo student, Al Garner.<\/p>\n<p>Al won a contest hosted by <a title=\"Darwin Wiggett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwiggett.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.darwinwiggett.com','Darwin+Wiggett')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin Wiggett<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Oopoomoo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oopoomoo.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oopoomoo.com','Oopoomoo')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oopoomoo<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Macro photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140528OnlineAlG.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Al Garner &#8211; Spring Macro Tulip<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Darwin is a well known stock photographer and photo educator from Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>I was very excited. Al took his first photo workshop with us many, many years ago. He had some good photos for a beginner but, erm, had lots to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next ten years Al took many of our <a title=\"photography courses\" href=\"http:\/\/HarryNowell.com\/Workshops\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2FHarryNowell.com%2FWorkshops','photography+courses')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courses<\/a> &#8211; some <em>twice!<\/em>\u00a0Steadily Al gained valuable skills and confidence that helped him create beautiful work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"student photo success\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/PhotoContestAlGarner.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Al Garner &#8211; self portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Al says:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Hi Folks: Something pretty exciting for me has happened. The website\u00a0<a title=\"oopoomoo\" href=\"http:\/\/oopoomoo.com\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Foopoomoo.com%2F','oopoomoo')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oopoomoo.com<\/a>, which is run by Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou\u00a0ran a contest. I submitted a photo and to my surprise and delight it was chosen as one of three winners.\u00a0 The other two shots are amazing so be included with them is really nice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>PS \u00a0special thanks to Harry for all the help and encouragement over many years!<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0Al&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a title=\"Oopoomoo contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oopoomoo.com\/2014\/06\/may-days-inspirations-your-inspiring-shots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See Al&#8217;s winning photo and the other two winners at Oopoomoo&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>Congratulations Al!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m proud of you!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This week we were very pleased to hear from long-time photo student, Al Garner. Al won a contest hosted by Darwin Wiggett&#8216;s Oopoomoo! Darwin is a well known stock photographer and photo educator from Alberta. I was very excited. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/1078-student-success\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2014%2F06%2F05%2F1078-student-success%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,267,266],"tags":[27,14,90,46,13,97,6,17,62,128,76,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}