{"id":643,"date":"2015-09-10T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T09:36:53","slug":"yin-and-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Yin and Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"word-wrap: normal; -webkit-hyphens: none; -moz-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\">\n<p>So it goes that you can&#8217;t have success without failure. Having <a href=\"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=603\" target=\"_blank\">written recently <\/a>about not making it into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/photoprize1\/site14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize<\/a>, I received an e-mail from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-aop.org\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Photographers<\/a> (AOP) saying that I had been selected as a Finalist for the 32nd Annual AOP Awards. If I whooted, I would whoot, whoot at this point, but I don&#8217;t, so I won&#8217;t, but I am really rather pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Judging was done on digital images and I&#8217;ve had to submit a print for the exhibition. This has been made rather easy by the AOP collaborating with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprintspace.co.uk\">The Print Space<\/a>, where I uploaded my file, The Print Space print it, and they keep it for mounting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-wrap: normal; -webkit-hyphens: none; -moz-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\">\n<p>The Awards Presentation evening takes place at <a href=\"http:\/\/trumanbrewery.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Truman Brewery<\/a> in London on Thursday October 8th, and I guess the combination of awards evening and brewery should make for a lively affair. The exhibition of the finalists prints will open on the\u00a0night and will run until the 11th October, alongside\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyblog.com\/news\/shootldn_2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShootLDN<\/a>\u00a0and as part of The Old Truman Brewery&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumanbrewery.com\/photoblock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photoblock<\/a>, before\u00a0the exhibition goes on a tour of\u00a0the country.\u00a0There is also a printed book of all the finalists images.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0successful image is from a recent commission from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remembercreative.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Remember Creative<\/a> which I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=562\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thanks to\u00a0all involved in pulling this together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=566\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1424862050&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2015 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_150225-7804\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?fit=625%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-566\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?resize=625%2C417\" alt=\"Kurn_150225-7804\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?resize=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it goes that you can&#8217;t have success without failure. Having written recently about not making it into the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, I received an e-mail from the\u00a0Association of Photographers (AOP) saying that I had been selected as a Finalist for the 32nd Annual AOP Awards. If I whooted, I would whoot, whoot at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Yin and Yang","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}