{"id":683052,"date":"2026-05-21T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:23:10","slug":"check-out-these-blooms-these-are-the-winners-of-cbc-windsors-spring-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683052\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out these blooms! These are the winners of CBC Windsor&#8217;s spring photo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May we asked you to get snapping as spring brought an abundance of cherry blossoms, colourful flowers, and blooms on trees and plants.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people snapped photos and entered them in the CBC Windsor spring blooms photo contest.<\/p>\n<p>Entries were judged by Mike Evans, associate producer of Windsor Morning, and these are the top three photos:<\/p>\n<p>1st place photo by Lupita Amaya  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Red Tulips by Lupita Amaya\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779322989_742_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.584295612009238\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Lupita Amaya captured these red tulips in Reaume Park in Windsor. (Lupita Amaya)2nd place photo by Noel Devenay <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Captured at Holiday Beach\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779322989_589_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4942307692307693\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Noel Devenay snapped this photo at Holiday Beach. (Noel Devenay)3rd place photo by Lira Okaj <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cherry blossoms by Lira Okaj\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779322990_810_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3436426116838487\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Lira Okaj captured the third place photo. (Lira Okaj)Winners get CBC swag<\/p>\n<p>Each winner will be presented with some CBC swag.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my God. Thank you so much. I&#8217;m very happy to hear that today,&#8221; was how Amaya responded when Evans called to let her know she had the winning photo.<\/p>\n<p>She snapped her top-placed photo in Reaume Park in Windsor, which she said is close to her home.<\/p>\n<p>Amaya said she started taking photographs &#8220;a very long time ago,&#8221; and likes to capture the expression on people&#8217;s faces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father was a photographer as well, like a hobby, so I started doing the same thing,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-683052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}