The 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is officially open, promising another year filled with hilarious, uplifting, and joyfully absurd images of wildlife! Building on the incredible success and laughter of the 2024 competition, we are delighted to once again partner with Nikon, a leading name in the world of cameras. Get ready for even more exciting surprises and playful antics throughout 2025. Best of all, entry remains absolutely free, and we’re thrilled to bring back our fantastic prizes, esteemed judges, and generous sponsors. Now, all that’s missing are your brilliant and amusing wildlife photographs.
You can enter a total of up to 10 images, 4 portfolio entries AND an additional 6 entries into the other categories, and 2 videos.
You can enter up to 3 images into each category, except the Amazing Internet Portfolio category where you have to enter 4 pictures.
Categories:
Alex Walker’s Serian Mammals Category
Spectrum Photo Birds Category
ThinkTANK Reptiles, Amphibians and Insects Category
Fish and Other Aquatic Species Category
Amazing Internet Portfolio Category
Nikon Junior Category (Under 16)
Nikon Young Photographer Category (Under 25)
Video Clip Category
People’s Choice Category
Overall Competition Winner:
A one week safari in Kenya for two people with Alex Walker’s Serian (the prize is to be used in one of their Masai Mara based camps in Kenya). *Flights to and from Kenya are not covered.
Handmade Trophy
You will receive a wonderful hand made metal trophy as the Winner from the Wonder Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and a beautiful certificate.
Nikon Junior Category Winner (16yrs and under)
As winner of this category you will receive an amazing Z50II standard zoom kit! Includes the Z50II camera and the NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR zoom lens.
Nikon Young Photographer Category Winner (25yrs and under)
Courtesy of Nikon Europe, you will win a Z6III Nikon Camera and Kit.
Portfolio Category Winner prize
Your prize is a wonderful Portfolio Series website from Amazing Internet for one year. Portfolio Series was created specifically for photographers so this is an ideal opportunity to show off and sell your amazing photos!
All Other Category Winners
BackLight 26L backpacks
Courtesy of Think Tank Photo, these best selling BackLight 26L backpacks are the business, keep everything in its place and ensure you will never lose a lense again!
You retain all rights to your images.
By entering the competition, you agree that we and our sponsors and conservation partner, may (but do not have to) reproduce and publish the image(s) for all purposes/in all media related to the promotion of the competition including, but not limited to: at the Awards event, in a book(s) websites, social media, magazine and newspaper articles, exhibitions, brochures, calendars, cards, stickers and flyers.
We will not license your image(s) for uses not promoting the CWPA unless you have signed a separate agreement with us authorising us to license your work for such purposes subject to a percentage of the proceeds being paid to you.
We will endeavour to credit you, and ask others to credit you, wherever customary and possible but we cannot be held liable if for any reason credit is not given.
By entering the competition, you agree that any personal information provided by you with the competition entry may be held and used by us and our agents and suppliers as specified in these rules, and generally to administer the competition. We will not use it for anything else unless you have consented to our doing so by ticking the relevant box on the online entry form.
Disclaimer: Although we make every effort to provide accurate information, we advise a thorough review of the competitions rules and details to ensure your understanding and acceptance before proceeding with your entry.
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