{"id":640935,"date":"2026-10-25T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:24:11","slug":"wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640935\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026: the winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whale shark goes exploring<\/p>\n<p class=\"description dxoq797 t1fzgn0z l1evdo4u blt0baw rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b16w0xvi\">With this photograph, US photographer Alex Lindbloom won the &#8220;Oceans: The Big Picture&#8221; category. Off the coast of Papua, Indonesia, he used a drone to photograph a whale shark approaching a lit, floating fishing platform. The platform&#8217;s light makes the shark visible in the darkness. Whale sharks are regularly spotted there by fishermen and attract tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale shark goes exploring With this photograph, US photographer Alex Lindbloom won the &#8220;Oceans: The Big Picture&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-640935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}