{"id":17476,"date":"2016-03-28T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:06:52","slug":"new-blog-look-a-free-esession-give-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/new-blog-look-a-free-esession-give-away\/","title":{"rendered":"new blog look &#038; a free engagement portraits give-away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17668\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.03.50-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 9.03.50 am\" width=\"1224\" height=\"668\" \/><br \/>\nso my heart is actually bursting now! i finally took that big leap of brushing up\u00a0my website. after almost 5 years!!! i did love my previous blog theme but it finally felt right about time to change and refresh.\u00a0thanks to my friend photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltandbleachit.com\">Jeff<\/a>, who first introduced flothemes to me few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>after only a week of being so engrossed and tinkering here and there, this new home is finally up\u00a0and running! the transition was surprisingly not technically challenging as i&#8217;ve worried\u00a0before and the people behind the amazing &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flothemes.com\">flothemes<\/a>&#8216; are downright brilliant! i absolutely am in love with how things turned out with the new fresher spanking clean look <em>(what do you think?)<\/em>&#8212; the goodness of full screen width was always what i&#8217;ve \u00a0dreamed about, too&#8230; well, sure, there are\u00a0similarities on layouts with already existing flotheme users out there, but what matters to me is the content that speaks of my own work straight away, representing my own brand and there&#8217;re still more options for flexibility and customization.<\/p>\n<p>Me and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flothemes.com\">Flothemes<\/a>, i tell you, are gonna be bestfriends for a long long long time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17669\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.04.02-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 9.04.02 am\" width=\"1219\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<section class=\"flo-gallery-shortcode grid-view masonry-grid gallery-3-columns\"><div class=\"gallery-shortcode-wrap row\"><div class=\" post-preview gallery-shortcode flo-3-columns\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.04.27-am.png\"   data-fancybox-group=\"prettyPhoto[116]\"  title=\" \" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"no-lazyload\" data-original=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.04.27-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 9.04.27 am\"  \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\" post-preview gallery-shortcode flo-3-columns\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.07.44-am.png\"   data-fancybox-group=\"prettyPhoto[116]\"  title=\" \" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"no-lazyload\" data-original=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.07.44-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 9.07.44 am\"  \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\" post-preview gallery-shortcode flo-3-columns\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.07.54-am.png\"   data-fancybox-group=\"prettyPhoto[116]\"  title=\" \" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"no-lazyload\" data-original=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-9.07.54-am.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 9.07.54 am\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<p>And because I&#8217;m feeling sooo goood about this new change, I&#8217;m giving away a <strong>free\u00a0engagement session<\/strong> for a couple getting married this\u00a0<strong>2016-2017<\/strong>. Last time I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/giving-back\/\">give-away was in 2011<\/a>\u00a0back in Singapore. And how fun it all turned out!<\/p>\n<p>So, the same rules shall apply then except it&#8217;s open <strong>for residents in Australia only<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1<\/strong> This is a <strong>free e-session\/prewedding give-away contest<\/strong> open to all engaged couples getting married this\u00a02016-2017\u00a0living in Sydney. But if you live elsewhere in Australia, you can still join too. I&#8217;m perfectly flexible, \u00a0if you win, you can come over to Sydney for the shoot where I am based!<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2<\/strong> Just email\u00a0<strong><em>me@josephinesicadphotography.com<\/em><\/strong>, subject titled<strong>\u00a0\u2018I want a Free ESession Give-away!<\/strong>\u2018, and tell me a short summary of your own love story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3<\/strong> Send me any photo of you together with your fiance\/fiancee because I need to post them on my Facebook page. Why? See #4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4<\/strong> Because the lucky couple with the most LIKES, COMMENTS and\u00a0SHARES on my page will be the happy lucky winner!<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5<\/strong> \u00a0I wish I can pick as many of you, but I shall pick only a few contestants, depending how many official entries will join.\u00a0<strong>Deadline to submit entries is April 23, 2016 11:59pm<\/strong>. \u00a0I shall post the\u00a0top entry submissions on April 25, 2016 to commence voting and by then you can invite as many of your friends and family to visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JosephineSicadPhotography\">my Facebook Page<\/a>\u00a0and support your entries. Voting ends by May 1, 2016 11:59pm. Official winner will be announced on\u00a0May 2, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyone out there interested?\u00a0My inbox is awaiting your entries! Let&#8217;s keep this rolling again!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17501\" src=\"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-28_0001.jpg\" alt=\"2016-03-28_0001\" width=\"1442\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so my heart is actually bursting now! i finally took that big leap of brushing up\u00a0my website. after almost 5 years!!! i did love my previous blog theme but it finally felt right about time to change and refresh.\u00a0thanks to my friend photographer Jeff, who first introduced flothemes to me few months ago. after only &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[930,931,935,934,933,932],"class_list":{"0":"post-17476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announcements","8":"tag-flothemes","9":"tag-new-website","10":"tag-photography-website","11":"tag-themes","12":"tag-wordpress","13":"tag-wordpress-theme"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14_0060.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17678,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions\/17678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}