Foto di animali che fanno ridere: i finalisti del Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2023

Le immagini sono state selezionate tra migliaia di proposte inviate da fotografi professionisti e non provenienti da tutto il mondo, e rappresentano un mix eclettico di esilaranti animali selvatici. I vincitori saranno annunciati il prossimo 23 novembre

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
ADRIAN SLAZOK
ChorzÃ³w
Poland

Title: Everyone can fly
Description: The photo shows a gray seal. I took them in November 2018 on the east coast of England. In late autumn, seals leave the North Sea to give birth to their young.
Animal: grey seal
Location of shot: east coast of England

1/13 Adrian Slazok - Everyone can fly

COMEDY WILDLIFE PHOTO 2023

Il Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards ha pubblicato le immagini e i video selezionati per il concorso del 2023, che ritraggono la fauna selvatica di tutto il mondo in pose esilaranti

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
Brian Matthews
Hartlepool
United Kingdom

Title: Don't look down
Description: A puffin does an inverted snoopy impression while watching jelly fish.
Animal: Atlantic Puffin
Location of shot: Farne Islands, Northumberland UK

2/13 Brian Matthews - Dont look down

IL CONCORSO APERTO AL PUBBLICO

Si sono così aperte le votazioni per il People's Choice Award, sponsorizzato da Affinity Photo che offre al pubblico la possibilità di votare l'immagine preferita e partecipare a un'estrazione a premi gratuita per vincere 500 sterline

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Jason Moore
Perth
Australia

Title: Air Guitar Roo
Description: I was driving past a mob of Western Grey Kangaroos feeding in an open field that was filled with attractive yellow flowers. I had my camera with me, so I stopped to grab a few photos. I suddenly noticed this individual adopt a humorous pose - to me it looks like he's practising strumming on his Air Guitar.
Animal: Western Grey Kangaroo
Location of shot: Perth, Australia

3/13 Jason Moore - Air Guitar Roo

I FINALISTI

La lista finale di quest'anno comprende 41 fotografie indipendenti, 3 video e 3 voci di portfolio, tra cui un canguro che fa air guitar, alcuni cavalli danzanti, una lontra ballerina e un pinguino che chiede indicazioni

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John Blumenkamp
Salt Lake City
United States

Title: Monday Blahs
Description: This Great Gray Owl spent most of the afternoon posing majestically and looking, well, wise. But for a moment or two after doing some elegant stretching, he/she would slump and give a look of 'is Monday over yet?'
Animal: Great Gray Owl
Location of shot: Grand Teton National Park, USA

4/13 John Blumenkamp - Monday Blahs

FOTOGRAFI DA TUTTO IL MONDO

Le immagini sono state selezionate tra migliaia di proposte inviate da fotografi professionisti e dilettanti di tutto il mondo, presentando un meraviglioso mix eclettico di esilaranti animali selvatici

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
Dakota Vaccaro
Victor
United States

Title:"Excuse me sir but I think you're a little too young to be smoking".
Description: While I was working deep in the Virginian woods, a family of grey foxes took up residence under the deck of the abandoned cottage next to my work housing. One day while practicing their hunting skills on bits of moss and branches, one of the kits lunged at a small chunk of wood and started rolling around with his prize. Tired after his hunt the kit lounged on his belly still holding the wood in his mouth which gave the strong resemblance of a cigar. I was very envious of the kit at this moment cause who wouldn't want to just lay around all day relaxing.
Animal: Grey Fox
Location of shot: Virginia, USA

5/13 Dakota Vaccaro - Fox with a cigar

LA STORIA DEL CONCORSO

Il Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards è stato fondato nel 2015 dai fotografi professionisti Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE e Tom Sullam che volevano creare un concorso incentrato sul lato più leggero e divertente della fotografia naturalistica ma che avesse anche un ruolo importante nel promuovere la conservazione della fauna selvatica a livello mondiale

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
Delphine Casimir
Brussels
Belgium

Title: The rainforest dandy
Description: This picture was taken in the monkey forest in Ubud, Bali. This place is a crazy place where monkeys are king! sometimes they give a show, sometimes, they climb on you to look for fleas or steal the piece of biscuit you are trying to eat :-D
Animal: Monkey
Location of shot: Bali (Indonesia)

6/13 Delphine Casimir - The rainforest dandy

BENEFICENZA

Ogni anno il concorso sostiene un'organizzazione differente e quest'anno Comedy Wildlife collabora con Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN), un ente di beneficenza britannico che sostiene i le persone che sostengono la conservazione nei loro paesi d'origine nel sud del mondo

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Dikla Gabriely
Yokneam
Israel

Title: Picture me! Picture me!!
Description: A brown bear in Finland who definitely did everything to make me pay attention to him and focus on him and not the other bears.
Animal: Bear
Location of shot: Finland

7/13 Dikla Gabriely - Picture me Picture me

IL SOSTEGNO ALL'AMBIENTE

Celebrando quest'anno il suo 30esimo anniversario, questo brillante ente di beneficenza ha devoluto 20 milioni di sterline a più di 200 ambientalisti in 80 paesi

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Jacek Stankiewicz
Kraków
Poland

Title: Dispute
Description: I caught this scene while watching birds in the Bialowieza Forest. Young greenfinch was still fed by parents. However, from time to time birds looked like having argument. My friends interpret this scene in two ways. 1 A young naughty kid is arguing with a parent. 2. One kid is reporting to the parent that its brother did something wrong: look he has broken the glass in the window.
Animal: Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)
Location of shot: Bialowieza forest

8/13 Jacek Stankiewicz - Dispute

IL CAMBIAMENTO

I premi di punta della WFN, i Whitley Awards , riconoscono i coraggiosi promotori del cambiamento che portano soluzioni locali alla biodiversità globale e alle crisi climatiche. Attraverso di loro la WFN sostiene il lavoro radicato nelle comunità che crea benefici duraturi per la fauna selvatica, i paesaggi e le persone

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Jacques Poulard
craponne
France

Title: Snowball !
Description: a grouse is coming to me in a very cold winter , Svalbard
Animal: white grouse
Location of shot: Spitzberg

9/13 Jacques Poulard - Snowball

LA SELEZIONE

Il team di giudici altamente esperti sarà impegnato nelle prossime settimane a scegliere le fotografie migliori. Tra la giuria ci sarà la presentatrice televisiva Kate Humble; l'attore e comico Hugh Dennis, i fotografi naturalisti di fama mondiale Daisy Gilardini e Will Burrard-Lucas; Will Travers OBE, esperto di fauna selvatica e co-fondatore della Born Free Foundation

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Jakub Wozny
Warta
Poland

Title: I don't know
Description: I took this photo during a beautiful sunrise. The dragonfly was sitting on a horsetail surrounded by dew, and cleaning itself
Animal: dragonfly
Location of shot: a small lake near the town

10/13 Jakub Wozny - I dont know

LA GIURIA

E ancora Ashley Hewson, amministratore delegato di Serif, creatore di Affinity Photo; Celina Dunlop, straordinaria redattrice fotografica; Luke Inman, appassionato di film subacquei e immersioni, e Bella Lack, una giovanissima ambientalista appassionata

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Jorn Vangoidtsenhoven
Wichita Falls
United States

Title: Flossing Beaver
Description: Even beavers floss before and after every meal!
Animal: Beaver
Location of shot: Grand Teton National Park, WY, USA

11/13 Jorn Vangoidtsenhoven - Flossing Beaver

AFFINITY PHOTO PEOPLE'S CHOICE

Il pubblico può votare la propria foto preferita nell'Affinity Photo People's Choice Award andando sul sito web e usando il collegamento People's Choice e avere la possibilità di vincere un premio in denaro grazie alla concessione degli sponsor del concorso Affinity Photo

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Wendy Kaveney
Buckeye
United States

Title: "That wasn't here yesterday!!"
Description: A white-winged dove appearing to fly head-on into a cholla cactus skeleton.
Animal: White-winged Dove
Location of shot: Buckeye, Arizona, USA

12/13 Wendy Kaveney - That wasnt here yesterday

I VINCITORI

Il vincitore assoluto, quello di categoria e quello con menzione speciale verranno annunciati il 23 novembre prossimo

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
Thomas Vijayan
Ontario
Canada

Title: Teddy Buddies
Description: At Katmai National Park, Grizzly bears are in abundance and hence it is photographers paradise. However, the challenge here is clicking a unique frame. This image is full of expressions and proper eye contact by both the bears hence it is a perfect frame of love and friendship. To get this image Ilied down flat on the water and stayed there for a long waiting for the right moment to click.
Animal: Grizzly bears
Location of shot: Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA

13/13 Thomas Vijayan - Teddy Buddies

I PREMI

L'immagine più apprezzata vincerà un incredibile safari di una settimana con Alex Walker's Serian nel Masai Mara, in Kenya, oltre a un trofeo unico fatto a mano dall'Art Garage di Dar es. Salaam, Tanzania