{"id":305572,"date":"2025-10-15T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305572\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:34:32","slug":"frolicking-frogs-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305572\/","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":3,"featured_media":305573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17500,159,67,132,68,837,80059,154531,154529,154530,154528],"class_list":{"0":"post-305572","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378681692586680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}