No joke: The Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards 2022 are open for entries: Digital Pictures Evaluate

Picture credit score: Shayne McGuire / 2021 Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards

It isn’t an April Idiot’s joke, the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards are open for entries. Final 12 months’s version of the favored wildlife photograph contest had a report variety of entries. In the event you missed the winners, take a look at our slideshow. The profitable images aren’t simply hilarious, they’re additionally nice wildlife photos.

The Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards have been co-founded in 2015 by Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, a pair {of professional} photographers. They needed a contest to have fun the lighter aspect of wildlife pictures. The competitors additionally locations a big emphasis on wildlife conservation. Annually, the competition helps a sustainable conservation group. The 2022 contest helps the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN), a UK charity that helps conservation leaders throughout the World South. Prior to now 29 years, WFN has channeled £19 million ($24.9M) to greater than 200 conservationists in 80 international locations.

An unseen entry from final 12 months’s Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards. ‘The Ministry of Foolish Walks’ by Nicolas Reusens.

WFN additionally palms out its personal flagship prizes, the Whitley Awards, that are sometimes called ‘Inexperienced Oscars.’ Candidates are assessed every year and winners are supplied essential venture funding and coaching. To be taught extra about WFN’s awards, click on right here.

This 12 months’s Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards stay free to enter. The highest shot will win a safari within the Maasai Mara in Kenya. The winner can even obtain a hand-crafted trophy from The Surprise Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Plus, after all, the title of ‘2022 Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Yr.’ Winners in every class will obtain a Assume Tank digicam bag and a certificates. The competitors’s sponsors embrace Alex Walker’s Serian, Spectrum Picture, Wonderful Web, Assume Tank and Affinity Picture. This 12 months’s competitors classes embrace:

• Creatures of the Air
• Creatures of the Land
• Underwater
• Video
• Junior
• Portfolio

If you would like to enter the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards, click on right here. Entries are open till September 1, 2022. The shortlist might be introduced in October, with winners introduced in December.