{"id":147411,"date":"2025-09-19T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147411\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:05:08","slug":"butterfly-and-bee-picture-wins-wiltshire-wildlife-photo-contest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147411\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly and bee picture wins Wiltshire wildlife photo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A picture of a butterfly and a bee balancing together on a flower has won a photography prize which asked people to &#8220;capture the wild&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Rob Willis took the winning photo at a nature reserve owned by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust (WWT) at Lower Moor Farm, near Malmesbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Other highly commended images in the over-18s category included a photo of two owls perched together on a tree stump a shot of a family of deer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Wiltshire Wildlife Photography Prize was judged by a panel of three, which included Nick Upton, an award-winning wildlife photographer, filmmaker and biologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The judges noted the detail captured in the picture of the butterfly and the bee on a thistle, while also complimenting the &#8220;perfect focus&#8221; Phillip Male captured on the eyes of the owls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Patience to wait for this moment has been combined with good technical skill and an aesthetic sense to capture this strong image,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Adam Silk&#8217;s image of a family of deer was said to have been the product of &#8220;no doubt huge patience&#8221;, with the judges adding the deer were in good focus and &#8220;framed by the vegetation around them and the sky above&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The photography prize is run by WWT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A picture of a butterfly and a bee balancing together on a flower has won a photography prize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}