News Forum - Dying of laughter – animals on the brink say ‘cheesy’

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The Comedy Wildlife Photo awards have rolled around yet again, annual prizes for bad photography where technical flaws like unwanted foreshortening are revered and the welfare of subjects irrelevant. Presumably a picture of adolescent lion falling from a tree in the Serengeti is as funny as an adolescent human falling from a Bangkok balcony. The planet is dying and almost all the animals in these pictures face extinction. Is this really the time to “lighten up”? It is hard to see how it benefits the fish for us to “have a laugh” at the work of a photographer who believes […]

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