{"id":81585,"date":"2025-10-16T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81585\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:19:09","slug":"the-frozen-swan-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81585\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frozen Swan | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunato Gatto&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Fortunato Gatto (Italy) chances upon an icy puddle in a south Icelandic bog, where frozen patterns form the shape of a swan.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunato is fascinated by the patterns and textures created in the ice.<\/p>\n<p>He calls this a \u2018meta-image\u2019, in which nature itself provides both the canvas and the artwork.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only when seen through human eyes that it becomes a swan.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the precise conditions in which it froze, ice can take on many forms.<\/p>\n<p>Its appearance varies with the speed of freezing, the dissolved substances, the surrounding air\u2019s moisture, and the size and number of any trapped bubbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortunato Gatto&#8217;s Image Fortunato Gatto (Italy) chances upon an icy puddle in a south Icelandic bog, where frozen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5924,111,139,69,147,406,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-81585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81585","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=81585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}