{"id":611911,"date":"2026-09-10T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:46:17","slug":"celebrating-10-years-of-the-nikon-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611911\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 10 years of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From laughing lions to penguins with attitude, ten years of Comedy Wildlife Photography is brought to life in a new immersive experience in London this autumn&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Wildlife photography is usually associated with majestic landscapes, rare encounters and moments of quiet drama. But nature has a funny side, too. This autumn, new immersive art experience <a href=\"https:\/\/frameless.com\/artist-residencies\/comedy-wildlife-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Frameless<\/a> is turning the spotlight on some of its most unexpected stars, celebrating a decade of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comedywildlifephoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Opening on 12 September, the experience brings together 91 of the competition\u2019s funniest and most memorable images, projected at full scale. The photographs are arranged across seven natural habitats, taking visitors from shorelines and forests to grasslands, with spatial sound adding breaking waves, rustling landscapes and other ambient sounds to the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For ten years, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have used humour as a way of encouraging people to look differently at the natural world and to consider why biodiversity conservation matters. The resulting photographs capture wildlife at its most wonderfully awkward, surprising and relatable, from a laughing dormouse to a happy turtle. Here are some of the best moments from the collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-590958 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PN_SupporterCampaign2026_Launch_1200x800_03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        The laughing dormouse by Andrea Zampatti<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CWL0074AZ17_Andrea-Zampatti_The-Laughing-Dormouse-scaled-1500x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A baby dormouse seen laughing on a yarrow flower in Italy\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        I just can\u2019t wait to be king by Bret Saalwaechter<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.29.20-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            Lions having a good chuckle in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Smile, you\u2019re being photographed by Valtteri Mulkahainen<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.29.40-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A brown bear gurns for Valtteri Mulkahainen, who took the shot in the Suomussalmi district of his native Finland\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Social distance, please! by Petr Sochman<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.31.06-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            Two rose-ringed parakeets in Kaudulla national park, Sri Lanka\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Diving fox by Angela Bohlke<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.30.21-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A fox face-planting in the snow, captured in Yellowstone National Park, United States\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        The happy turtle by Tzahi Finkelstein<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.32.08-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A Balkan pond turtle shares a moment with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Jezreel Valley, Israel\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Almost got it by Oliver Dreike<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.30.01-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A gorilla picks its nose in Tanzania\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Talk to the fin by Jennifer Hadley<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.31.29-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            Two gentoo penguins photographed on the Falkland Islands\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Smiley by Arturo Telle Thiemann<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-07-at-14.30.43-2200x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"image--responsive\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"img__caption pb--medium\">\n                            A cheerful parrotfish in the Canary Islands, Spain\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Because the world needs it<\/p>\n<p>Positive News reports on the people and ideas driving progress. 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