{"id":609411,"date":"2026-08-30T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:00:12","slug":"paradise-photographer-recognized-as-canadian-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609411\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Photographer Recognized as \u2018Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/david-sturge-puffin-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Paradise Photographer Recognized as 'Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the Year'\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Puffin by David Sturge<\/p>\n<p>A local photographer is being recognized as Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the Year by one of the country\u2019s most respected wildlife and natural history publications.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Geographic says the work of David Sturge of Paradise \u201cstood out\u201d among all of the 10,000 entries received for its 2026 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition.<\/p>\n<p>Sturge, who grew up in Labrador City, has begun a two-year term as an Emerging Photographer-in-Residence with Canadian Geographic.<\/p>\n<p>The publication says Sturge spent \u201chours\u201d crawling under fishing stages, finding crab, snails, and fish to capture on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Sturge describes his photographic adventures as \u201can ecological Disneyland.\u201d He says he wants to use his photography to raise awareness about the importance of protecting wildlife and to document how the natural world is changing due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The competition\u2019s winning images will be published in Canadian Geographic\u2019s November\/December issue \u2013 available on newsstands in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/david-sturge-fox.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308375\" class=\"wp-image-308375 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/david-sturge-fox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"1040\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-308375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox, by David Sturge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Flying Puffin by David Sturge A local photographer is being recognized as Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,222384,151325,222381,222383,222385,222382,222378,222379,222380],"class_list":["post-609411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}