{"id":5004,"date":"2022-10-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:41:22","slug":"ready-for-another-break-here-are-this-years-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/ready-for-another-break-here-are-this-years-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready For Another Break? Here Are This Year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, you heard that right: another year, another time to sit back and maybe hold your chuckles in, as this year\u2019s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards<\/a> finalists are in. I mean, sure, the awards themselves have been around since 2015<\/a>, and we were a little bit late when we covered last year\u2019s winners<\/a>\u2014yet here we are, at the final quarter of 2022, and arguably the world\u2019s best nature photos (very much a personal opinion) are here once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, you better take a peek once. Or twice. Or thrice. (The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards\/Paolo Mignosa, 2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see some of the Modern Sciences Team\u2019s favorite picks down below\u2014but you are most welcome to view the rest of the finalists over on the event website<\/a>. You can even vote for this year\u2019s Affinity Photo People\u2019s Choice Award<\/a> in there. Go ahead\u2014we won\u2019t mind! (But just make sure to head on back here once you\u2019re done.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go ahead and peek at the awards’ website! Just make sure to bring yourself back here. Perhaps as fast as this zebra? (The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards\/Vince Burton, 2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, without further ado, here are Modern Science\u2019s personal favorites among the finalists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nJennifer Hadley\nRaleigh\nUnited States\n\nTitle: Talk To The Fin!\nDescription: This was shot on the Falkland Islands. These two gentoo penguins were hanging out on the beach when one shook himself off and gave his mate the snub.\nAnimal: Gentoo Penguin\nLocation of shot: Falkland Islands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nMichael Eastwell\nSouthampton\nUnited Kingdom\n\nTitle: It’s all kicking off!\nDescription: Apart from its beauty, Cape Hillsborough is renowned for its resident kangaroos and wallabies. I visited the area for three consecutive sunrises, but it was on my final morning that I captured this beautiful spectacle, two wallabies playing \/ fighting on the beach as the sun burst through the surrounding clouds.\nAnimal: Wallabies\nLocation of shot: Cape Hillsborough, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nAlison Buttigieg\nHelsinki\nFinland\n\nTitle: What do you mean smile?! I am smiling!\nDescription: I spent a whole morning with this lion pride. One of the lionesses made some funny facial expressions after yawning, luckily for me she looked straight into the camera for a moment and I caught this fake smile.\nAnimal: African Lion\nLocation of shot: Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nKevin Lohman\nSanta Cruz\nUnited States\n\nTitle: The Wink\nDescription: An American Red Fox casually walked up to the edge of the woods and sat down, then turned around and gave a wink. Moments later, this sly fox disappeared into the trees.\nAnimal: American Red Fox\nLocation of shot: San Jose, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nJAGDEEP RAJPUT\nDELHI\nIndia\n\nTitle: Pegasus, the flying horse.\nDescription: Actually this is Indian Saras Crane attacking a Bluebull from behind, the bull happened to venture close to Saras’s nest, where in, it had laid a single egg. The Saras Crane, which is tallest flying bird in the world, opened it’s huge wings and attacked the bull from behind, driving the bull away from the nest.\nAnimal: Bluebull and Indian saras Crane.\nLocation of shot: Keoladeo National Park, India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nVince Burton\nNorth Tuddenham\nUnited Kingdom\n\nTitle: Buck-a-roo!\nDescription: A zebra does a great impression of the 80’s children’s game Buck-a-roo. It also looks like its been fart-powered \ud83d\ude42\nAnimal: Zebra\nLocation of shot: Amboseli, Kenya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nValtteri Mulkahainen\nSotkamo\nFinland\n\nTitle: Can I borrow honey from you until tomorrow?\nDescription: Photographed in taiga Finland, in the town of Martinselkonen.\nAnimal: Brown bear\nLocation of shot: Martinselkonen, Finland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nRyan Sims\nKirkland\nUnited States\n\nTitle: Excuse Me… Pardon Me!\nDescription: A duckling walking\/waddling across a turtle covered log at the Juanita wetlands, the duckling fell off after a few turtle crossings, it was cute.\nAnimal: a duckling and turtles\nLocation of shot: Juanita Bay Park, Lake Washington, Kirkland, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nMark Schocken\nTampa\nUnited States\n\nTitle: Tight Fit!\nDescription: I was going to see and photograph this eastern screech owl nest in a local park in Florida. One morning, a few days before the two owlets fledged, one owlet tried to squeeze into the nest hole with Mom, maybe to see the outside world for the first time. It was hilarious and I was glad I was there that morning to photograph it. The moment lasted only a few seconds as Mom didn’t seem very happy with the arrangement. Check out the expression on her face.\nAnimal: Eastern Screech Owl and Owlet\nLocation of shot: Largo, Florida, USA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nPaolo Mignosa\nFelino\nItaly\n\nTitle: Three headed (“Kerberos”)\nDescription: The three cubs seem to form a \u2018Kerberos\u2019, the three \u2013headed dog of Greek mythology.\nAnimal: Kamckatka brown bear cubs\nLocation of shot: Kuril lake, Kamchatka, Ruissia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nLincoln Macgregor\nSydney\nAustralia\n\nTitle: Your Picnic’s Mine!\nDescription: When this Southern Cassowary sat confidently down on a picnic blanket, it scared all of the picnickers away and start eating up the fish and chips that were laid out before it. I captured this photo just as this cassowary swallowed some food, lending the bird a cheeky and mischievously satisfied look! Cassowaries, touted as the \u2018most dangerous bird in the world\u2019, roam the beachfront of Etty Bay on most afternoons, raiding picnics and frightening many unaware tourists. Armed with dagger-like claws and often being territorial and aggressive towards intruders, cassowaries command respect and most people keep a safe distance from them. I spent several days photographing and documenting their behaviour at Etty Bay, where these wild birds regularly come into contact with humans and have become comfortable approaching people. Picnickers in this area often inadvertently attract these birds with food, however human food can have a negative effect on their health. Cassowaries are well known for being important seed dispersers in their rainforest ecosystems, and when their diet strays from natural seeds and fruits, their important seed dispersal role diminishes.\nAnimal: Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)\nLocation of shot: Etty Bay, Queensland, Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022\nLukas Zeman\nPardubice\nCzech Republic\n\nTitle: You can’t see me, can you?\nDescription: A little owl hides in the chimney of a collapsed house in Bulgaria\nAnimal: Little owl\nLocation of shot: Senoklass, Bulgaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, you heard that right: another year, another time to sit back and maybe hold your chuckles in,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[442],"class_list":{"0":"post-5004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nature","8":"tag-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}