The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have announced the finalists for 2018, narrowed down to just 41 from over 2000 quality entries. “The standard of imagery, in terms of quality of the photography, goes up and up every year”, Tom Sullum, one of the founders of the awards, told Bored Panda. “The humour remains as brilliant each year, with new animals that we havent seen represented before being featured.”
Anyone can enter the competition, and Tom says that the photographers are a mix of around 30% professional and 70% amateur, which makes for a broader variety of animals photographed. The message that the organisers want to promote is one of wildlife conservation. “Our strong belief here at Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is that the smallest thing can help conservation,” Tom explained. “By following Born Free on social media you have made one positive step. By supporting them financially you make another big step. By sharing our posts, by buying the book, by keeping the conversation going… all these things help raise the issues of conservation.”
“In 20 years some researchers estimate that elephants may well be gone from East Africa. Lions would be the next to follow. Its pretty grim reading, so ultimately we think the smallest snowflake could help turn into the biggest snowball. We just need to create lots of snowflakes!”
The winners of the various catagories, as well as the overall winner, will be announced at the awards night will be at Foyles, in Charing Cross, London on November 15th. The overall winner is judged by an expert panel to have a mix of the best technical excellence, together with the most amusing content and caption. Who do you think it will be? You can vote for your own favorite in the Affinity Photo People’s Choice Award, all voters will be put in the hat to win an Ipad!
So scroll down below to have a few belly laughs at all kinds of animals in various amusing situations, get voting, check out the new book and contribute to raising awareness about animal conservation!
More info: Website | Facebook | Born Free | Book | People’s Choice Award
Caught In The Act
Image credits: MARY MCGOWAN
Rabbit Hiding Face in Embarrassment
Image credits: Daniel Friend
Cheeky
Image credits: Robert Adamson
Coastal Brown Bear Cub with headach
Image credits: Danielle D’Ermo
The Yawn
Image credits: Danielle D’Ermo
Bullies
Image credits: Amy Kennedy
Hot Kiss
Image credits: Sergey Savvi
Split
Image credits: Geert Weggen
Guffaw
Image credits: Amy Kennedy
Martian Tango
Image credits: Sergey Savvi
Crouching Tiger Peeking Moose
Image credits: Jamie Bussey
I GUESS THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
Image credits: Christopher Schlaf
This is Sparta
Image credits: Sergey Savvi
Yoga Bear
Image credits: Roie Galitz
Wildlife PhotograBear
Image credits: Roie Galitz
Yoga Bear
Image credits: Roie Galitz
Smiling Blue Shark
Image credits: Tanya Houppermans
Peek a boo
Image credits: Shane Keena
Least Tern Chick
Image credits: Sarah E Devlin
DANCES WITH BEARS
Image credits: Luca Venturi
Happy
Image credits: Muriel Vekemans
The singing moose
Image credits: Mary Hone
Spy
Image credits: Muntazeri Abdi
Have a Headache
Image credits: Maureen Toft
Tango
Image credits: Michael Watts
A farewell
Image credits: Qiusheng Hu
Should Have Gone To Specsavers
Image credits: Michael Lane
The people are back
Image credits: Patty Bauchman
Astonished Lemur
Image credits: Jakob Strecker
Flying Hyena
Image credits: Kevin Rooney
Drive Safe
Image credits: Jonathan Irish
The Black Skimmer Gang
Image credits: Ke Qiang Ruan
Perfect Pillow
Image credits: Denise Dupras
Walrus Breath
Image credits: Jackie Downey
Rhinopeocock 4
Image credits: Kallol Mukherjee
Ashamed
Image credits: Antonio Medina
Dancing Deer
Image credits: Bartek Olszewski
Order
Image credits: Achim Sterna
Smiling Ele
Image credits: Anup Deodhar
So There
Image credits: Barney Koszalka
Mother returned from her parents meeting from school
Image credits: Valtteri Mulkahainen
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