{"id":123445,"date":"2025-10-15T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:47:11","slug":"the-frozen-swan-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123445\/","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":123446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,29690,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-nature-photography","18":"tag-wildlife-competition","19":"tag-wildlife-images","20":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","21":"tag-wildphoto","22":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}