{"id":81852,"date":"2025-10-15T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:14:10","slug":"oasis-of-calm-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81852\/","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":81853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-81852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-nature-photography","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81852","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=81852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}