{"id":124904,"date":"2025-10-16T02:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:28:19","slug":"fractal-forest-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124904\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractal Forest | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Gudgeon&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Ross Gudgeon (Australia) reveals the exquisite forest-like structure of a cauliflower coral from the inside out in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Ross is always looking for ways to photograph from unusual perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>He used an extended macro wide lens, which is an underwater version of a probe.<\/p>\n<p>He carefully threaded the lens between the coral branches. Then he backlit the scene with two flashes.<\/p>\n<p>Soft corals are filter-feeding invertebrates found in the Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other corals, soft corals do not use photosynthesis for sustenance.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, each polyp-tipped branch has feathery tentacles that comb water currents for floating phytoplankton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Gudgeon&#8217;s Image Ross Gudgeon (Australia) reveals the exquisite forest-like structure of a cauliflower coral from the inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124905,"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-124904","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\/124904","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=124904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}