{"id":503018,"date":"2025-10-16T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503018\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:24:09","slug":"the-frozen-swan-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503018\/","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":503019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[164060,70,16,15,1717,164059,164058,164056,164057,164055],"class_list":{"0":"post-503018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-nature-photography","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115381473476091467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503018","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=503018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}