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Финалисты Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards’2019

Vlado Pirsa | Финалист The
Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Marion Vollborn | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife
Photography Awards 2019

Andrew Erlich | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Harry Walker | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife
Photography Awards 2019

Corey Seeman | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Eric Fisher | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Andy Harris | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Susan Knowler | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Thomas Mangelsen | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Philip Marazzi | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Willem Kruger | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Eric Keller | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Vicki Jauron | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Lisa Vanderhoop | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Kevin Sawford | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Anthony N Petrovich | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Tilakraj Nagaraj | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Lloyd Durham | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Valttori Muikahainen | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Geert Weggen | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Donna Bourdon | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Adwait Aphale | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Alastair Marsh
| Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Bob Carter | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Co Grift | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Elmar Weiss | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Eric
Keller  | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

James Vodicka | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Martina Gebert
| Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Mike Rowe | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Pablo Daniel
Fernandez | Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Peter Haygarth
| Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Roie Galitz | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Ryan Jefferds | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Peter Haygarth | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Sarah Skinner | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Thomas
Mangelsen | Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Toni Elliott | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Txema Garcia
Laseca | Финалист The Comedy
Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Willem Kruger | Финалист The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Работы победителей прошлого года, смотреть. 

Bella Lack

If would be unfair to start with Bella’s age.  Because it would be misleading… so we will say something about Bella before we tell you how old she is.  Bella is conservationist and ambassador for the Born Free Foundation and Jane Goodall Institute. She is also part of the Ivory Alliance, which is a group of ‘influencers’ and politicians working to combat the Illegal Wildlife Trade. Bella utilises the power of technology (in the form of social media and blogging) to educate and inspire a wide group of people to protect the natural world.  Not only does Bella do all this, but she also delivers speeches, including speaking at the People’s Walk for Wildlife and the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in 2018.  And then when you consider that Bella is only 16, yes, sixteen, you realise that she also has to fit in school, sports, friends, life etc into this incredible schedule.  Just in case that is not enough, Bella also has a few projects for the upcoming year, including a TedX talk, a manifesto for change and is currently in the process of setting up a non profit organisation. All about wildlife… of course!  Puts some of the judges to shame… (well, Paul and Tom anyway)..

Celina Dunlop

Celina Dunlop, head of picture desk, The Economist, United Kingdom

Appointed Head of Picture Desk at The Economist in 1990 with responsibility for photo content in all media. To be honest we could stop here as if this wouldn’t be proof enough that at Comedy Wildlife we only have the elite of elite professional and overqualified photo judges, but just to really show off about our newest judge Celina, here’s more…She was a jury member for This Working Life 2007, Czech Press Photo 2011, 2012, BG Press Photo 2013, UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2019 and has been on several panels discussing a variety of photo industry issues. I am properly exhausted already by reading about Celina’s achievements, and it even goes on…she is a tutor, a documentary maker for the BBC, video creator, a journalist and of course, I don’t really need to say it, but obviously award-winning as well. So you can all see that she fits in quite nicely with our acclaimed and most brilliant team of judges lead by Tom and Paul, who need people like this to make them look good. It works.

Kate Humble

Kate will be known to many of you, as she is a household name in the land of wildlife TV presenting in the UK and around the world. She started out in TV in 1989 making tea and typing and since then has taken the TV world by storm (i.e. she now makes coffee?!). More recently Kate and Ludo (the Hubster) have moved to Monmouthshire and have this incredible project called Humble by Nature, please check it out. Kate has travelled all over the world and spent years working with TV people and photographers and knows perfectly well what makes a great photograph, she also is super funny and lights up a room with her huge smile! We are lucky to have her on the judging panel, being beautiful doesn’t have anything to do with it, ooh no! For more info you can find Kate at

www.katehumble.com   Twitter: @farmerhumble and @katehumble

Will Burrard-Lucas

Will is a hugely well known wildlife photographer from the UK. He is best known as the creator of BeetleCam and as a plaything for meerkats. As the inventor of BeetleCam and Camera Trap system he is something of a camera techno-wizard. He is also the Founder of Camtraptions (you see what he did there..) helping loads of other photographers to take way better pictures than him by manufacturing amazing equipment for us lot, thanks Will. This altruistic side obviously rubbed off on him from his lovely wife Natalie, who is a doctor (www.drnat.co.uk) and slaved away helping people in Zambia while Will sipped Pina Coladas (no seriously Will I hope you didn’t?) in the South Luangwa Valley and took the odd picture. You can find Will pretty much anywhere on the interweb, he is quite brilliant at this stuff and his pictures are awesome (ok ok enough already) Find him here:

www.burrard-lucas.com & www.camtraptions.com Facebook: BLphotography Twitter: @willbl   Instagram: @willbl

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Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE

Paul somehow managed to organise this competition in the first place, all on his own, and with no help from anyone, but that hasn’t changed the fact that nobody really listens to anything he says anyway. Having said that of course he has got this thing going, yuppo well done him…Paul is a wildlife photographer, as you can see from the pic – his great big lens he says, no he ‘assures us’ isn’t compensating for anything, nope of course not PJH. He lives in Arusha, Tanzania with his Mrs, (aka The Pooch) and his two small boys (aka the Bograts) and his Springers. He loves being in the bush and taking pictures and is desperate one day to win a photographic award! We have told him though, that he can’t win his own competition, bad luck. He was awarded an MBE for some great charitable work in Tanzania over the years, not his photography!! (Although his work is really really good, inspirational, brilliant…PJH get off the edit machine)

www.pauljoynsonhicks.com  Instagram: @pj_hicks   Twitter: @safarisnapper  Facebook: pauljoynsonhicks

What can you do at home to be a conservationist?

(And definitely let us know how you are getting on. Send us pictures and stories to . )

1.     SHOP RESPONSIBLY.

Yup, this is super easy for everyone to do. For example; don’t buy products which have palm oil, or if you have to — make sure you buy products that use sustainable palm oil because the majority of palm oil plantations are destroying rainforests and thus affecting the global weather. Try and avoid un-recyclable products. Give yourself a mission – ok how about one yoghurt pot per person per week of non-recyclable products? It is possible, you know. We have a great mate in London who does just that.

2.     WATER USE AT HOME.

Ok, this is the thing, each time you flush the loo we send approx. 20ltrs of water down the drain – seriously, its crazy. So “If its yellow, let it mellow”…you know the rest…! Have shorter showers, water your garden a little less. Imagine if we all stop flushing our loos each time we did a wee, then billions and billions of litres of fresh water would be saved and available to rush down rivers, feed the fish, save the lakes and enable forests and trees and plants to flourish and grow which adds oxygen to our environment as well as supply homes and food for a global plethora of wildlife.

3.     ONLY FLY LONG HAUL, EMBRACE THE TRAIN FOR SHORTER TRIPS.

We know how hard it is to avoid flights — sometimes there are no other options.  But our feeling is that we should try and limit our flights to those that really are unavoidable, such as long haul flights. For shorter trips we should all try and make use of existing train networks (assuming you live where these are relatively reliable!). We did come across a story of people choosing to sail across the oceans on cargo ships, but as admirable as this is it might not fit into everyones busy timetables as a way of travelling… but it did sound awesome! So reducing flights is our starting point!

4.     PUT PLANT BOXES ON YOUR WINDOW SILLS

The easiest (after the first 3) thing to do… put a plant box on your window sill, grow some flowers, and give the bees somewhere to go. We’ve all heard of the importance of bees, and this little nod towards their daily requirements is already a huge step in the right direction. Imagine if every windowsill had a flower box!  It would be an absolute miracle, so lets start that process!

5.     BECOME A “WILD INFLUENCER.”

Lastly – and perhaps most importantly every single thing you do, as an individual, a family, a football club, a work place — makes an impact. Do it.

Andrew Skirrow

Andrew Skirrow is co-founder, leader and pin up model of Amazing Internet, the company who created this (and Paul’s) fantastic website. An overly keen but sadly untalented photographer, he spends his days looking at real photographers’ fantastic images (such as Paul and Toms) and works with his team to create beautiful websites to show them off. Thank goodness, he is better at this than he is at photography. He started Amazing Internet in 1999 and pioneered the concept of low-cost template-based websites for photographers (wow, what a sales pitch — give the man a mic and off he goes), a model which many companies have now adopted. Since then the company has produced award-winning bespoke sites for some of the country’s best photographers. A keen birdwatcher and a country boy at heart he is never happier than when walking his beloved dogs and family, which normally gets some unwanted attention.

Hugh Dennis

Hugh Dennis is an actor and a comedian, best known for playing the harrassed Dad of three in the award winning BBC sitcom Outnumbered, being team captain in the long running panel show Mock the Week, and for hosting and writing Radio 4’s The Now Show, which is currently in its 45th series.

To be honest his knowledge of photography is far less than any of the other judges, but to counter that he has probably been photographed more often than they have, frequently against his will, and therefore knows roughly what it feels like to be a wildebeest, a lion or a honey badger pursued by a troupe of SLR wielding tourists.

He also claims to understand comedy.

Tom Sullam

Possibly the most important person after all the others listed here, Tom is the chair of the judges and apparently competition director.  You wouldn’t believe it but somehow things panned out that way.  Having spent the first part of his professional life working in financial services in London, Tom realised the error of his ways to quit everything in order to pursue a career in photography and stop earning altogether.  Initially influenced by Charlie Waite,  Tom started to develop his own style in the landscape, yeah right. He won the prestigious Fuji Photographer of the Year award, along with the One Vision prize, yeah alright he doesn’t half hark on about all his prizes!  He has led numerous groups and increasingly the medium of black & white has taken prominence, as he never really got the hang of working in colour. He recently moved with his family to Tanzania where the wilds of African landscapes have provided yet another challenge, he is probably hoping no one will find him out here, bad luck Tom we did!

www.tomsullam.co.uk  Instagram: @sullamphoto   Twitter: @sullamphoto  Facebook: tomsullamphotography

Will Travers OBE

Will Travers is an internationally-renowned wildlife expert who has dedicated his life to wildlife issues, since he lived in Kenya while his parents, Virginia McKenna OBE and Bill Travers MBE, made the film Born Free (1966).  So no guesses what his favourite cuddly toy was..? In 1984, he co-founded the charitable wildlife organisation now known as The Born Free Foundation (www.bornfree.org.uk), which works to stop individual wild animal suffering, protect threatened species worldwide and promote compassionate conservation.

Will is also the President of Born Free USA (www.bornfreeusa.org), a national animal advocacy non-profit 501(3) organization and is President of the Species Survival Network (SSN – www.ssn.org), an international coalition of more than 100 organisations committed to the promotion, enhancement and strict enforcement of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES). Holy mackerel! That is a lot of stuff he does and Presidencies as well!

He has been involved in rescuing numerous individual elephants, tigers, dolphins and lions and is always willing to share his experience and knowledge to further Born Free’s vision for a more compassionate future, which is why he has kindly joined us to make sure we use every opportunity to further our conservation message. I mean, if you want someone on board, it may as well be a serial conservation President! Will is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group. He was awarded an OBE in June 2012 (yes PJH thats better than yours!) for Services to Conservation and Animal Welfare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Yup, there is no doubt Will is the ‘go to’ man for conservation, which is why we are lucky to have him on board.

Twitter: @willtravers

The Video Clip Category

Listen carefully; this is the category where you can enter up to 2 video clips and each one can be no more than 60 seconds. They should be a maximum resolution of 1080p HD at 30fps with a maximum file size of 150MB but any resolution below that is acceptable too. Videos will be uploaded to Vimeo which accepts most major and popular video types. Please check the Vimeo website if you have any questions.

Please do not add music, captions or anything like that to the video (don’t worry about peoples voices that’s ok), but do make sure you edit it as judiciously (look it up, that’s what Google is for) as possible. Much better you send us a 15 second clip which is short, sharp and brilliant, rather than us having to trawl through 45 seconds of dull video to find the funny 10 seconds at the end. Edit it, it will increase your chance of success in the competition and the chances of the clip going viral, oh yeah, don’t forget that bit!!

Simon Pollock

Simon is sitting in another of our ‘paid for seats’ being another sponsor of this great endeavour that is the Comedy Pet Photo Awards. A background in photography and social media, Simon photographed live music for years before switching gears and taking on a handful of portrait and wedding shoots. Moving swiftly on and into a little bit of food photography. In the middle of all of this he’s owned a plethora of various pets including his two boys aged 3 and 7 (though some would say that own him). Simon’s ‘social media life’ is based on his looking after all things social media for camera bag makers, ThinkTankPhoto.com as well as a small handful of other brands.You can find ThinkTankPhoto.com all over social media, and you can find Simon over here about.me/gtvone

Oliver Smith

Oliver Smith is The Telegraph’s online travel editor. His photography skills, animal knowledge and comedic talent pale in comparison to the other members of the panel, which leads him to wonder whether the possibility of coverage on his website is behind the decision to recruit him to the team. (Oli, how could you say such a thing??) He does, however, have plenty of experience judging amateur photography – The Telegraph’s weekly “Big Picture” competition attracts hundreds of entries – a staggering number of which he notes are of animals, whether in the Serengeti or nibbling at the bird feeder in the snapper’s back garden. All of which illustrates just how much us Brits love animals – and never more so than when they’re doing something silly: gurning camels and tree-climbing goats also have a propensity to clog up his inbox.