{"id":227302,"date":"2025-10-15T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:12:12","slug":"frolicking-frogs-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227302\/","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":227303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[80748,79,201,126555,126554,126552,126553,126551],"class_list":["post-227302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","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\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}