{"id":500633,"date":"2025-10-15T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:04:11","slug":"legends-of-the-falls-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500633\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the Falls | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss to reveal nesting northern fulmars.<\/p>\n<p>There was a strong, blustery wind on the day Stefan visited Sk\u00f3gafoss. This created a constant veil of spray that hid the birds from view and coated his camera lens with fine water droplets.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, enough gaps appeared in the mist to enable him to photograph this scene.<\/p>\n<p>The northern fulmars at Sk\u00f3gafoss fly across the 60-metre-high (197-foot) waterfall to nest in the nearby cliffs.<\/p>\n<p>Fulmars are widespread across northern latitudes. In Europe, populations have been declining since the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,164060,16,15,164059,164058,164056,164057,164055],"class_list":{"0":"post-500633","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-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-nature-photography","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wildlife-competition","16":"tag-wildlife-images","17":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","18":"tag-wildphoto","19":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115376440295178374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}