{"id":123782,"date":"2025-10-15T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:22:12","slug":"frolicking-frogs-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123782\/","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":123783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123782","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=123782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}