An Irish marine biologist has been Highly Commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition.<\/p>\n
Se\u00e1n O’Callaghan, from Killarney, Co Kerry, submitted one of 100 images selected from over 65,000 entries for special recognition.<\/p>\n
His entry, entitled: ‘Frozen in Time’, was highly commended in the Oceans \u2013 The Bigger Picture category.<\/p>\n
The image depicts a dead humpback whale, which had died after becoming ensnared in a discarded fishing-line, floating close to the coast of Andenes, on And\u00f8ya Island in northern Norway.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Callaghan took the photograph while leading a whale-watching trip north of the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, now in its 62nd year, aims to celebrate photography that raises awareness of environmental issues.<\/p>\n
The competition described Mr O’Callaghan’s entry as “a sobering example of the impact of discarded fishing gear on whales”.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s competition received a record-breaking 65,403 entries from 121 countries and territories.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Callaghan’s entry will be displayed alongside 99 other selected images, including category winners and highly commended images, at the Natural History Museum in London until 11 July 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish marine biologist has been Highly Commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition. Se\u00e1n…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-809592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809592","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=809592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}