{"id":31840,"date":"2018-05-07T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:05:57","slug":"samsung-wraps-up-moments-worth-a-million-online-photography-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/05\/07\/samsung-wraps-up-moments-worth-a-million-online-photography-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung wraps up ‘Moments Worth A Million’ online photography contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics Philippines recently wrapped up its\u00a0Moments Worth A Million<\/i>\u00a0online photography contest by officially announcing\u00a0Kevin Miguel A. Sa\u00f1o\u00a0as the grand winner of the competition. The eight-week long challenge, which took place in the latter half of 2017, aimed to encourage Filipinos to capture some of their best moments with the help of the Samsung Galaxy J7+.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kevin Miguel Sa\u00f1o receives his cheque of 1 Million Pesos from Samsung Philippines\u2019 Marketing Manager for Core Smartphones, Nico Gonzales<\/p><\/div>\n

Sa\u00f1o, a\u00a0<\/span>23-year-old freelance photographer<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>from Malabon City<\/span>, bagged the grand prize after submitting his entry during the 5th\u00a0<\/sup>week of the competition, highlighting the theme\u00a0Best Meal Ever<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sano\u2019s winning entry during Week 5 of the online contest, with the theme \u201cBest Meal Ever\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to give the contestants artistic freedom in capturing their best moments throughout the competition, and they definitely did not disappoint. We believe moments like these are also best captured with the Samsung Galaxy J7+, with its camera features that allows each user to make the most out of each photo,\u201d said Nico Gonzales, marketing manager for core smartphones, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation. \u201cEach photo impressed us in their own way, and that\u2019s exactly how we visualized the Galaxy J7+\u2019s users photos to look like.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Defining the winning photo as one of Sa\u00f1o\u2019s best moments, the shot was captioned as\u00a0<\/span>\u201cLife of a Fisherman.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The entry took home the grand prize, based on its high scores for originality, creativity, and engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cLife of a fisherman\u201d
\n<\/span>Sano\u2019s defining\u00a0Moment\u00a0<\/i>that is\u00a0Worth a Million<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The Samsung Galaxy J7+ is available in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics Philippines recently wrapped up its\u00a0Moments Worth A Million\u00a0online photography contest by officially announcing\u00a0Kevin Miguel A. Sa\u00f1o\u00a0as the grand winner of the competition. The eight-week long challenge, which took place in the latter half of 2017, aimed to encourage Filipinos to capture some of their best moments with the help of the Samsung Galaxy J7+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[1384,359,5768,201],"class_list":["post-31840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-phones","tag-mobile-phone","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-j7","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}