Mum hopes magic royal Christmas photo will fund daughter's education
Getting that perfect photo can be a challenge -- even for the professionals. And when the Royal family is involved the competition to get the money shot is even more fierce.
A mum from Norfolk in the UK struck gold when she captured what's been described as "the best image of the day" using an iPhone.
Karen Murdoch's photo of four smiling royals at Sandringham on Christmas Day ended up on the front of several national newspapers in the UK.
She's been lauded for out scooping 20 of the best photographers in the country.
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Murdoch told the BBC she was "overwhelmed" by the "bizarre and bonkers" response.
"It was pure luck - I took it on an iPhone and it was a great photograph," she told BBC Breakfast. "The rest is history."
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Murdoch now plans to use any money made from the image to help fund her daughter's education.
The question is, what kind of iPhone did she use?!
Mashable has reached out to Murdoch for comment and will update this post accordingly.
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Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.
