Every year, theComedy Wildlife Photography Awardsbrings a smile to our faces.
All this is also to benefit wildlife, with the contest pairing with a different conservation non-profit each year.
The high quality of the photos speaks to the incredible pool of photographs entered into each year’s competition.
“The Proposal” by Greg Harvey.Animal: Alaskan Brown BearLocation of shot: Lake Clark National ParkSome call it puppy love. Others may bearly have issue with calling it cubs in love…Either that or one cub is scolding the other for pooping in the salad.
They’re a great way to get excited for what’s to come.
As always, the competition is free to enter.
You have until September 1, 2022 to submit your entry for this year’s contest.
“Photo bomb” by Anne Lindner.Animal: European Ground SquirrelLocation of shot: Vienna, AustriaGroundsquirrels live together in colonies. However, each groundsquirrel has its own burrow. Not infrequently, they are very jealous when the “neighbor from the burrow opposite” seems to have something much tastier to eat. So it happens again and again that it often comes to small quarrels. On this picture the groundsquirrel just wanted to eat a captured barley. However, the gopher in the background was just about to steal this barley from him.
Winners will be announced in December.
The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are now taking entries.
Photo bomb by Anne Lindner.Animal: European Ground SquirrelLocation of shot: Vienna, AustriaGroundsquirrels live together in colonies.
“Let me tell you a joke” by Fija Mills.Animal: FoxesLocation of shot: Dunes Noord-Holland, NetherlandsThese foxes were laughing their heads of as if one told the other a joke.
However, each groundsquirrel has its own burrow.
So it happens again and again that it often comes to small quarrels.
On this picture the groundsquirrel just wanted to eat a captured barley.
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021Gerardo FloresNYCUnited StatesTitle: Brother you can’t play hide and seek, you’re spotted!Description: Two brothers in the Masaai Mara and some lucky timing. My wife and I were on the very first day of our trip to Kenya and we’re lucky enough to spot two brothers just resting during sunset. We spent a few minutes just enjoying their presence when one of them started rolling on the ground. I took my camera out and started shooting. The result is a cheetah cracking a lovely laughAnimal: CheetahLocation of shot: Kenya
However, the gopher in the background was just about to steal this barley from him.
We spent a few minutes just enjoying their presence when one of them started rolling on the ground.
I took my camera out and started shooting.
“Monkey Reading Newspaper” by Hrithik Singh.Animal: MonkeyLocation of shot: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaThis monkey came to the yard of my house and I gave him bread, wrapped it in paper and after eating this bread, monkey started reading that newspaper.
Get inspired to enter with these unseen images from last year’s contest.
To capture this moment, it requires stealth and patience, and finally, GOTCHA!
All their antics are interesting and entertaining.
“gotcha!” by Hunpin Teoh.Animal: Blue-striped fangblennyLocation of shot: Weh Island, Acheh, Indonesia.This blenny was sneakily hiding in and appearing out from the cleave of the corals, playing hide and seek with the divers. To capture this moment, it requires stealth and patience, and finally, GOTCHA!
I was fortunate to catch this youngster involved in a deep dive nose pick when Mom wasn’t looking.
This picture really reminded me of this awesome sketches.
“Snow yoga” by Shayne McGuire.Animal: Red FoxLocation of shot: YellowstoneFox jumped for a vole, and aced the landing, but go stuck straight up for a few seconds.
“A quick pick” by Rick Beldegreen.Animal: Mountain gorilla, mom & babyLocation of shot: RwandaAfter trekking for several hours to reach this gorilla family, we were fortunate that there were several infants in the group. All their antics are interesting and entertaining. I was fortunate to catch this youngster involved in a “deep dive” nose pick when Mom wasn’t looking.
“The Ministry of Silly Walks” by Nicolas Reusens.Animal: Steller sea eagleLocation of shot: Hokkaido, Japan“The Ministry of Silly Walks” is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe’s television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. A satire on bureaucratic inefficiency, the sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants. This picture really reminded me of this awesome sketches.
“The Original Angry Bird” by Jennifer Beck.Animal: Least BitternLocation of shot: Cuyahoga Valley National ParkI had to wait quite a while for this least bittern to emerge, but when it struck this pose it was all worth it.
