{"id":344587,"date":"2025-12-31T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:46:10","slug":"poole-clubs-paddling-photo-contest-reveals-2025-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344587\/","title":{"rendered":"Poole club\u2019s paddling photo contest reveals 2025 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Each year Poole Harbour Canoe Club (PHCC) launches a photo competition along with its Wimborne-based Wimborne Paddlepsort group.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The entries come from winners of a monthly Facebook photo competition and are judged by members and friends via a YouTube video format.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The selected entries are also used for a calendar to raise awareness for the club and their various activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Winning gold for the 2025 Annual PHCC competition was Jeff Weston, with an impressive photograph of an icy seascape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/25668317.photos-ringwood-winter-wanderland-brought-joy-town-kicks-off-festive-season\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PHOTOS: Ringwood Winter Wanderland brought joy as town kicks off festive season<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>3 &#8211; Bronze Award. (Image: Adrian Oates)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The image displays a vast iceberg with a natural arch, with two kayakers gliding on mirrored waters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Paul Sutton&#8217;s photo, featuring a lone kayaker silhouetted by a sunset over the sea, won silver.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, a photo by Adrian Oates won bronze, capturing a scenic river scene beneath a historic stone bridge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Other commended entries include Andy Phipps&#8217; photo of a kayaker near an offshore lighthouse, Max Wray&#8217;s first-person perspective of a kayaking adventure on rough seas and Kim Pickering&#8217;s image of a kayaker gently gliding over calm, shimmery waters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club&#8217;s photo competition continues to serve as a testament to the beauty and adventure found within canoeing and kayaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each year Poole Harbour Canoe Club (PHCC) launches a photo competition along with its Wimborne-based Wimborne Paddlepsort group.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-344587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}