{"id":124854,"date":"2025-10-16T01:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124854\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:48:23","slug":"oasis-of-calm-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124854\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis of Calm | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Sachdev&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Sachdev (India) creates a dreamlike image of an elephant in a lush riverside woodland.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Rahul had watched marabou storks hunting around a large grassland fire.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, all was calm in the lush woodland.<\/p>\n<p>A slight movement of the camera during this exposure blurred the boundary between animal and habitat. Only the elephant\u2019s brilliant white tusks remain pin-sharp.<\/p>\n<p>African savanna elephants are spread across 24 countries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>However, they only occupy 15% of their historic range. This is because of habitat fragmentation, poaching for ivory and conflict with farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahul Sachdev&#8217;s Image Rahul Sachdev (India) creates a dreamlike image of an elephant in a lush riverside woodland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124855,"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-124854","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\/124854","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=124854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}