{"id":82229,"date":"2025-10-15T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:27:10","slug":"frolicking-frogs-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82229\/","title":{"rendered":"Frolicking Frogs | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Martinez&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Quentin Martinez (France) discovers a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding event.<\/p>\n<p>In persistent rain, Quentin followed a flooded path to a temporary pool in a forest clearing.<\/p>\n<p>He framed this scene with a wide-angle lens. Using a diffused flash, he highlighted the frogs\u2019 metallic sheen without disturbing them.<\/p>\n<p>To attract mates, lesser tree frogs produce short, shrill calls.<\/p>\n<p>Huge numbers gather, and the spectacular breeding event \u2013 triggered by heavy rains \u2013 lasts for just a few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Martinez&#8217;s Image Quentin Martinez (France) discovers a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding event. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82230,"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-82229","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\/82229","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=82229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}