The Finalists Of The 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Have Been Announced And They Might Crack You Up Interview
After a long wait and a fierce but friendly competition, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have announced their finalists. And the photos are so good, they’re bound to make your day brighter.
One of the founders of the Awards, Tom Sullam, told Bored Panda that the competition exists to recognize great photography and pictures of wild animals that make us snort into our cups of tea. The competition also aims to raise awareness about conservation through a humorous, upbeat, and positive association with these animals.
Read on for our full interview with Tom about the competition’s 6th year, scroll down to check out the finalists, upvote your fave photos, and let us know in the comments which picture you’d pick as your winner. Speaking of those, keep an eye out for the winners on October 22! And have a peek at last year’s finalists here and winners here.
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That was my first thought, wouldn’t blame it after what us humans are doing to their home.
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I feel like this is a sign from "Mother Nature" to stop polluting our oceans and waterways.
This is truly my spirit animal. lol I work at a zoo and I want this made into a tshirt
The hand, er, flipper gesture goes PERFECTLY with the facial expression!
I heard an italian voice from the turtle. I dont know why 😂😂😂
That is definately one pissed off turlte, she probably just got back into the water after digging a huge hole in the sand to lay what she thought looked like was literily thousands of the smallest clear eggs all joined together that took her what felt like a week to lay and then remembered eating that weird huge tasteless bubbly jellyfish that kept going POP with every mouthfull and took 6 months to shit it out - Bubble Wrap - no wonder she looks that way and flippin' us all the "bird".
I would flip him off too if he destroyed my home the way we are destroying his!
So Jack has been swirling in Gitchi Goomee... did this turtle meet him???
what's the photo credit for this? It's not actually in the 2020 finalist on the comedy wildlife site
She means it ! Hopefully we will understand and be more careful of the environment ...
The ambassador of the whole world wildlife community has a message for you, human community.
“We strongly believe humor and positivity have a major role to play in building awareness, interest, and eventually action towards protecting the animals that live on this planet,” Tom said. “Over the years, the competition has focused more and more on the conservation, working with the Born Free Foundation and promoting conservation efforts around the world.”
He continued: “We, without being too preachy, want to get you all, and ourselves, to behave a tiny bit differently towards the world we live in. The smallest effort achieved towards conservation is better than the biggest effort never started!”
Tom was ecstatic about how well this year's competition was turning out. “We expected this year to be a little bit tricky as a result of COVID restrictions. But quite sensationally and against all better judgment, we received the highest number of entries ever, over 7,000—and the standard across the board has gone up incredibly,” Tom shared.
Thats adorable. Looks at that happy smile on the baby elephant's face!
“It has been such a positive response and such an upbeat process to be part of when so many things in 2020 have been so miserable/depressing/disappointing!”
Tom said that the images coming in at such a high volume have kept his and his team’s spirits up and he hopes they’ll do the same for all of us.
“Choosing the finalists was basically an impossible task, our initial shortlist was over 400, which is three times more than it has ever been. If ever there was a year when many could have won this was it and we genuinely feel terribly sorry for those that we couldn't get into the final 44 (which should have been 40 but we just couldn't reject the other 4).”
Then I told Keesha that Monica's boyfriend Brad's friend Joey said to Nicole...
