{"id":81961,"date":"2025-10-15T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81961\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:26:11","slug":"spring-snowflake-morning-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81961\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Snowflake Morning | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Schwarze&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Schwarze (Germany) provides a simultaneous view of spring snowflake flowers and the treetops of a woodland in Elkenroth, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>For the first few seconds of this long exposure, Thomas focused his camera on the woodland floor and its carpet of spring snowflake flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Partway through, he tilted it upwards towards the canopy. This superimposed two perspectives in a single frame.<\/p>\n<p>Spring snowflakes are native to Europe. They grow in damp woodlands, scrub and grasslands and flower between February and April.<\/p>\n<p>These hardy plants provide an important early source of nectar for bees and other insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Schwarze&#8217;s Image Thomas Schwarze (Germany) provides a simultaneous view of spring snowflake flowers and the treetops of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81962,"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-81961","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\/81961","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=81961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}