There are those who like to meet the animals through documentaries. Other people, on the other hand, leave these videos for a nap and opt for more concise formats, such as photography. But if, in addition, it is about entertaining and nice photographs, all the better. Therefore, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards They are one of the most acclaimed wildlife photography awards.
This year, the winning image represents a Lion cub descending in a somewhat spectacular way from the tree in which he was climbing. The image is also accompanied by a nice title: “Not so feline reflexes”. As for the author of it, Jennifer Hadley, you are undoubtedly in luck, because it has not only been done with the jury prize. The public award also won, with a nice image of two penguins, titled: “Talk to my flipper”.
In total they have participated 5,000 photographs, from 85 different countries. Hadley has been done with the first prize, consisting of a safari to kenya in which, for sure, you will get many more interesting photos.
Don’t worry, the lion came out safe and sound
If you’re as concerned as we are about what might have happened to the lion, you can relax. In a statement reproduced by IFLSciencethe author of the photograph pointed out that both she and her companions waited to see how was the animal and they verified that he got up and ran without problems.
Apparently, the animal, which must have been about 3 months old, did not yet have much ease in climbing treeshence the lowering of the trunk was less majestic than expected.
Other winning photographs
In addition to Hadley’s main prize, corresponding to the public and the Earth Creatures Category, there were three other awarded categories: the Submarine Category Prize, received by Arturo Telle Thiemann, the Air Creatures Category, whose winner was Jean Jacques Alcalay and the Think Tank Photo Junior Category, with which fifteen-year-old Arshdeep Singh was awarded.
Even so, there were other highly acclaimed photos that, despite not winning any of the awards, have been very shared after the publication of the winners.
In them you can see from kangaroos athletes even nice raccoons waving almost like humans. There’s also squirrels jumping, Ducks using rows of turtles to cross the river and even a false pegasus It has nothing to do with Greek mythology.
Only a few can win; but, of course, all of them deserved to have their work known.