Október 5-én kihirdették az idei Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards döntős felvételeit, ami egyben azt is jelenti, hogy a közönség már szavazhat, hogy 2023-ban melyik legyen az év legviccesebb természetfotója.
A zsűri idén 41 kacagtató fotót választott be a fináléba. A fényképeken lehet látni léggitározó kengurut, táncoló lovakat és tájékozódó pingvineket. Az ítészeknek idén sem volt könnyű dolguk, mert több ezer pályázatból kellett kiválasztaniuk a legjobbakat.
A mára világhírűvé vált versenyt 2015-ben két profi fényképész, Paul-Joynson-Hicks és Tom Sullam hívta életre azzal a céllal, hogy bemutassák a természet vidám oldalát is, és ezzel hívják fel a figyelmet a környezetvédelem fontosságára.
Emlékezetes, a 2017-es kiírásnak magyar nyertese volt.
A kategóriagyőzteseket és 2023 legviccesebb természetfotóját november 23-án hirdetik majd ki.
A döntős fotókat alábbi galériánkban tudod megtekinteni.
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Dario Podesta
PUERTO MADRYN
ArgentinaTitle: Fellowship
Description: Three King Penguins coming out of the water holding hands
Animal: King Penguin
Location of shot: Islas Malvinas
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ADRIAN SLAZOK
Chorzów
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
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Allen Holmes
Rotherham
United Kingdom
Title: Walk like an Egyptian Goose
Description: A territorial Avocet wasn’t too happy about this Egyptian Goose arriving early to place a towel on it’s sunbed. Fortunately the avocet was a master in the art of Kung-Fu.
Animal: Avocet & Egyptian goose
Location of shot: RSPB MInsmere
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Benard Omwaka
Nakuru City
Kenya
Title: Cheeky Baboon
Description: Took my time to watch a family of baboons at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. There were many funny interactions. In this photo, a mischievous baby baboon plays a game of ‘catch me if you can’ with its patient mother. In this photo the baby baboon was very playful while the mother was trying to groom it. The baby baboon tried getting away severally and this pic is the mother holding it by the ear and the baby with a funny face and mouth wide open looking at the camera. The mother very calm looking the other way. There were other baboons playing around. With a playful tug-of-war between motherly duty and the baby’s adventurous spirit, this endearing scene captures the untamed joy of the wild.
Animal: Baboon
Location of shot: Lake Nakuru National Park, Nakuru City, Kenya.
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Bill Gozansky
North Carolina
United States
Title: Oh my, talk about poking your nose into someone else’s business!
Description: An unusual configuration of giraffes at a waterhole in the Onguma Game Reserve in Namibia, Africa.
Animal: Angolan Giraffe
Location of shot: Onguma Game Reserve, Namibia, Africa
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Brandi Romano
Kihei
United States
Title: Right of Way
Description: At the sandbar in Moorea, ocean dwellers practice the right of way to the more dominant species
Animal: Surgeonfish and black tip reef shark
Location of shot: Moorea, French Polynesia
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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
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Brigitte Alcalay-Marcon
MONTMEYRAN
France
Title: „Just a kiss”
Description: This young chacma baboon is sitting on it’s mother back playing the fool.
Animal: Chacma baboon
Location of shot: Kruger National Park. South Africa
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Brigitte Alcalay-Marcon
MONTMEYRAN
France
Title: „Ready steady go”
Description: The mother polar bear is pushing her hesitant young into the water with her leg.
Animal: Polar bear
Location of shot: Spitzberg Svalbard Norway
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Christian Hargasser
Dingolfing
Germany
Title: Hang loose
Description: masai mara – it was already half past six in the evening and almost dark… I caught this very short moment when I did this funny sitting position in the middle of playing
Animal: Lion
Location of shot: Masai Mara
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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
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Danny Sullivan
San Dimas
United States
Title: Doing the Tango
Description: These two stallions show off their athletic abilities while fighting each other. No horses were hurt doing the Tango.
Animal: Wild Mustang
Location of shot: McCullagh Peaks, Wyoming.
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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 😀
Animal: Monkey
Location of shot: Bali (Indonesia)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jaroslaw Kolacz
Poland
Title: Now-thats-a-selfie
Description: Swan on the beach was very interested in me
Animal: swan
Location of shot: Poland; Gdańsk-Brzeźno beach
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Jodi Frediani
Santa Cruz
United States
Title: Directions Please: „No, I told you they went that way”!
Description: A large group of gentoo penguins were returning from sea, when suddenly a lone chinstrap appeared among them. The gestures in this confrontation are so recognizable, it was easy to surmise their conversation going like this: “Are you sure my family didn’t go this way?” “No, I told you they went that way!”
Animal: Gentoo penguins and lone chinstrap penguin
Location of shot: Andvord Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
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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
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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
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Kate Stevenson
Uphall
United Kingdom
Title: Singing In The Rain
Description: During an heavy downpour I happened to look out the window to watch the rain. I spotted this lovely pigeon resting waiting for a break in the shower. I grabbed the camera to capture some shots and as I did it started stretching it’s neck and opening it’s mouth, like it was trying to catch the rain drops. It was really sweet to watch and I love how this image looks like it is mid chorus and I like to imagine it had „I’m singing in the rain” running through its mind (which happens to be one of my favourite movies!) – Gene Kelly reincarnated as wood piegon, they are rather dashing birds as if dressed in a suit and neck scarf 🙂
Animal: Wood Pigeon
Location of shot: From my bedroom window
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Kawing Chiu
Staten Island
United States
Title: Living the Moment
Description: Relax, lay back and enjoy the warm sun… This seal is scratching its face and it is seen lying on the side while his head is supported by his flipper. This image makes the seal like the reclining Buddha statue.
Animal: Seal
Location of shot: Staten Island, NY
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Khurram Khan
Piscataway
United States
Title: The Cabaret Bear
Description: This polar bear cub found this drugt wood pretty amusing and was playing it when it suddenly stopped and stood up using it almost like a performer does at times.
Animal: Polar bear
Location of shot: Barter Island, Alaska, USA
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Lara Mathews
Melbourne
Australia
Title: Boing!
Description: Taken at Westerfolds Park, a beautiful and surprisingly wild pocket of land in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, famous for its kangaroo population. The mob was enjoying some morning sunshine when this joey decided to get silly and try his hand at boxing.
Animal: Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Location of shot: Westerfolds Park, Melbourne, Australia
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Matti Rauvala
Sonka
Finland
Title: Fake news!
Description: Sulawesi macaque reading news
Animal: Sulawesi macaque
Location of shot: Sulawesi
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Sergey Savvi
Saint-Petersburg
Russian Federation
Title: Scream
Description: The lemur can’t hold his emotions.
Animal: Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Location of shot: Madagascar
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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
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tzahi finkelstein
tel aviv
Israel
Title: the happy turtle
Description: the swamp turtle is surprised and smiles at the dragonfly resting on its nose
Animal: swamp turtle
Location of shot: jezreel valley israel
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Vince Maiden
Canada
Title: Mona Lisa Smile
Description: This Snowy Owl landed outside my house as I was watching a movie, I opened the window and popped a lens out and made this image. Always liked the silly face it made so getting it with a straight on look was a bonus
Animal: Snow Owl
Location of shot: Creemore Canada
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Vittorio Ricci
Genova
Italy
Title: Unexpected plunge
Description: An unusual and almost miserable end of a perfect moment, previously prepared, for a successfull fishing
Animal: Striated heron
Location of shot: Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa
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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
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Zoe Ashdown
Weston Super Mare
United Kingdom
Title: One for the family album
Description: With one having returned to the nest, the Northern Gannets had greeted each other with normal beak rubbing. Whilst firing off a load of shots to capture that encounter, they stopped and looked over, and at that moment this image was captured forever. How proud do they look with their chick between them!
Animal: Northern Gannet
Location of shot: Yorkshire, UK
