Dog Photo Finalists For Comedy Pet Photo Awards Tickle The Funny Bone
Every year, photographers around the world send in their images of pets to compete in the Comedy Pets Photographer Awards. The one requirement? The images should make people smile. So it’s always a big treat when the Comedy Pets release their shortlist of the best images. Among this year’s 25 finalists (all pets welcome) are 16 photos of our favorite canine companions.
This year’s selection includes a dog pretending to be Zorro, a duck toller with a goofy smile and a dog smiling among the weed. Take a look at these photos of dogs up for winning top prize.
Zorro reborn! The avenger of the poor is back, but this time as a dog and not on a horse, but in a car! The obligatory black mask is a must, of course.
Gill Woodcock says his dog Bumble “puts his heart and soul into everything‚ it just doesn’t always work out.”
Kerstin Ordelt says of her photo, “We tried to get a dreamy autumn photo of Milo – instead of lying a bit on his side he rolled around like crazy. His family loves this shot because it shows his personality better than any other picture.”
John Young writes, “This is Barney our toy poodle, caught mid-flight whilst running.”
When digging a hole gets serious! Sophie Boynton writes, “Shadow was digging holes as normal at the beach, when all of a sudden he was showing off his new technique! Luckily the camera was at the ready for this crazy position!”
Corinna Mooser wondered why her dog Runa was so happy and jokes, “So this is the source of happiness…That explains so much. (Don’t worry, it’s just regular hemp for industry).”
“Karin and her two dogs. Don’t they all look almost the same?”
“Our cat Lilly played with a mouse, we saved the mouse and our dog Amy was fascinated by the mouse,” says Udo Krauss.
Chris Porsz writes, “In March 2019 I sat in the Union Sq New York dog run when I spotted a lady with a pink bag in her hand (to keep her hand clean) throwing a ball to her dog [that] sat down facing her. The dog then launched itself and flipped in mid air to face me and snap! As you can see the lady with her hand on her head was as surprised as me and I think she is saying ‘phew’! I have searched in vain via the NY media to find the owner so that I can send her a copy. No [luck], so I am hoping this Pet Comedy competition can help me find the mystery woman and her leaping dog. You never know!”
“Kylian could not sleep in another bed,” Katia Pillonel says of her Irish Terrier. “Maybe he dreamt of [the] jungle…”
The 498th round of Hide and Seek was getting a bit old for Nala the cat. “Misty the spaniel desperately wanted to play with Nala [the cat], the dignified older lady of the menagerie. She wasn’t that keen, fortunately Misty was pretty terrible at hide and seek.”
“Yes, his name is Oscar,” says Lana Polyakova. “He is an Afghan greyhound and is very pleased with himself.”
“Bobby reaching for the ball against a beautiful sunset,” Christine Johnson says of her dog. “We were taking photos of Bobby as the sun was quickly setting and disappearing behind the hill. I was changing the setting on my camera, to keep the detail on a black dog against a nice sky and soon realised, just go with the simple option and shoot him as a silhouette.”
They sure look so alike!
“Two sisters from different litters: self-confident Crystal and cute baby Daisy.”
Is it a seal or a dog? Monyque Macedo Dos Santos says, “There’s a hiding place under the sofa where Louis (the dog) likes to hide, that day I took his tennis ball from ‘his place’, he got angry and put his head out through the hole barking asking for his ball back, that’s when he turned into this angry seal, and I decided to register the moment.”
To look at more of the finalists (the other pets up for the prize) and to learn more about the awards, visit www.comedypetphoto.com.
