{"id":3106,"date":"2014-10-08T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/winners-announced-for-the-port-of-long-beach-photography-competition\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:30:25","slug":"winners-announced-for-the-port-of-long-beach-photography-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/winners-announced-for-the-port-of-long-beach-photography-competition","title":{"rendered":"Winners Announced for the Port of Long Beach Photography Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-31091\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oriental-queen.png\" alt=\"oriental-queen\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>First-place winner Cherene Birkholz&#8217;s <\/em>Oriental Queen<em>. Photos courtesy of the Port of Long Beach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslb.org\/\">Arts Council for Long Beach<\/a> announced the three winners of this summer\u2019s Port of Long Beach photography competition at a reception Saturday, October 4, at the Liberty Gallery &amp; Event Space in Long Beach\u2019s East Village Arts District. The reception was the kickoff celebration to a month-long art exhibition showcasing the Port images captured by both professional and amateur photographers.<\/p>\n<p>The first-place winner was Cherene Birkholz for her photo <em>Oriental Queen<\/em>,&nbsp;the second-place winner was Joan Day for <em>Jewels of the Night<\/em>,&nbsp;and the third-place winner was Dave Freeman for <em>Watercolors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-31092\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/jewels-night.png\" alt=\"jewels-night\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Second-place winner Joan Day&#8217;s <\/em>Jewels of the Night<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to come see this unique perspective on Port operations. The exhibit, with nearly 100 images on display, is at the Liberty Gallery &amp; Event Space, located at 435 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802. The show runs from October 5 to October 26 and is open for viewing Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5:00PM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-31093\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/polb-watercolors.png\" alt=\"polb-watercolors\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Third-place winner Dave Freeman&#8217;s <\/em>Watercolors<\/p>\n<p>The photographs are the wondrous result of a workshop taught this summer by Port photographers that was followed by a twilight boat tour of the Port, giving workshop attendees a chance to shoot the Port at dusk. Eighty beginning, amateur and professional photographers participated. Both the workshop and the behind-the-scenes Port tour took place in August and the participants then submitted their best pieces for the juried gallery exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPort of Long Beach PHOTOGALLERY\u201d marks the second year in a row the Port has teamed with the Arts Council for Long Beach to promote cultural arts through photography for Long Beach Arts Month. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polb.com\/community\/tours\/phototour.asp\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for a quick look at a few of the photographs now showing at the Liberty Gallery &amp; Event Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslb.org\/\">Arts Council for Long Beach<\/a>&nbsp;announced the three winners of this summer\u2019s Port of Long Beach photography competition at a reception Saturday, October 4, at the Liberty Gallery &amp; Event Space in Long Beach\u2019s East Village Arts District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":68383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1287],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-long-beach-arts-month-2014","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}