{"id":216964,"date":"2025-10-16T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:32:18","slug":"oasis-of-calm-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/216964\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis of Calm | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Sachdev&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Sachdev (India) creates a dreamlike image of an elephant in a lush riverside woodland.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Rahul had watched marabou storks hunting around a large grassland fire.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, all was calm in the lush woodland.<\/p>\n<p>A slight movement of the camera during this exposure blurred the boundary between animal and habitat. Only the elephant\u2019s brilliant white tusks remain pin-sharp.<\/p>\n<p>African savanna elephants are spread across 24 countries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>However, they only occupy 15% of their historic range. This is because of habitat fragmentation, poaching for ivory and conflict with farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahul Sachdev&#8217;s Image Rahul Sachdev (India) creates a dreamlike image of an elephant in a lush riverside woodland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,76784,66,323,103774,103773,59959,103772,103771],"class_list":["post-216964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216964","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=216964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}