{"id":3499,"date":"2016-08-01T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:57:19","slug":"2nd-place-ill-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/articles\/2nd-place-ill-take\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Place?  I&#8217;ll take it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, we both love underwater photography as much as we love diving.\u00a0For a while now Brandi has been encouraging Steve to enter some of his photos in underwater photography contests. Just recently he submitted a few to NOAA&#8217;s National Marine Sanctuaries &#8220;2016 Get Into Your Sanctuary&#8221; photo contest.\u00a0 We were notified that his image &#8220;Mermaid on the Vandenberg&#8221; was selected as the second place winner in the &#8220;Sanctuary Portraits&#8221; category. You can see the winning photos on their website\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00adef;\" href=\"http:\/\/sanctuaries.noaa.gov\/earthisblue\/photo-contest-winners-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here,<\/a>\u00a0and yes, the mermaid is me. Steve&#8217;s category is at the bottom of the page. \u00a0The picture is titled &#8220;Mermaid on the Vandenberg&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3469\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3469\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mermaid on the Vandenberg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.wetlizarddiveteam.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KEYS-Oct-2015-51.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mermaid on the Vandenberg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, Steve and I both love underwater photography as much as we love diving.<br \/>\nFor a while now I have been encouraging Steve to enter some of his photos in underwater photography&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2nd Place? 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