No joke: The Comedy Wildlife Images Awards 2022 are open for entries: Digital Images Overview

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

It is not an April Idiot’s joke, the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Images Awards are open for entries. Final yr’s version of the favored wildlife picture contest had a document variety of entries. In the event you missed the winners, take a look at our slideshow. The successful pictures aren’t simply hilarious, they’re additionally nice wildlife photographs.

The Comedy Wildlife Images Awards had 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 images. 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. Up 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 yr’s Comedy Wildlife Images Awards. ‘The Ministry of Foolish Walks’ by Nicolas Reusens.

WFN additionally arms out its personal flagship prizes, the Whitley Awards, that are also known as ‘Inexperienced Oscars.’ Candidates are assessed annually and winners are offered vital venture funding and coaching. To study extra about WFN’s awards, click on right here.

This yr’s Comedy Wildlife Images Awards stay free to enter. The highest shot will win a safari within the Maasai Mara in Kenya. The winner may even obtain a hand-crafted trophy from The Surprise Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Plus, in fact, the title of ‘2022 Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the 12 months.’ Winners in every class will obtain a Assume Tank digital camera bag and a certificates. The competitors’s sponsors embody Alex Walker’s Serian, Spectrum Photograph, Superb Web, Assume Tank and Affinity Photograph. This yr’s competitors classes embody:

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

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