A caiman wearing a wig, two brown bears laughing and a leopard doing a handstand feature in the selection of finalists from this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards. Winners will be announced on 8 December Dirk Koster – The different one. ife Awards 2026 ‘I took this in 2025 in the Maasai Mara, Kenya, in the Oltepesi area. Three young giraffes were standing side by side on the savanna and looked back at me with great curiosity.
Right behind the middle one stood a single umbrella acacia, perfectly lined up with its head and neck. The giraffe seemed to be wearing the tree, like a green hairdo or a fancy hat. Nothing was staged or arranged; it was a matter of being in the right spot at the right moment’ ife Awards 2026 Azure damselfly (_Coenagrion puella_) Stoke-on-Trent, UK‘May, 6am, and I was about to head home after photographing insects as they warmed up for the day.
This sleepy damselfly had slowly climbed a blade of grass, so I gently placed it on a leaf for one last portrait. Instead of posing politely, it disappeared behind the leaf, popped its head through a readymade window, and as I pressed the shutter ... gave me a cheerful wave. Clearly, someone wanted the last laugh!’ e Awards 2026 ‘Behind the comical face is a story of extreme underwater patience.
This blenny in Curaçao was hidden inside a tiny, camouflaged tube on the reef, and it opened its mouth to feed for a split second. To transform this moment into a highly precise wildlife encounter, it took multiple targeted dives. Exact timing was crucial to catch the fish’s sharp expression within its natural environment, showing that the smallest ocean residents often have the biggest personalities’ ldlife Awards 2026 An Asian water buffalo surfaces from Lake Kumana, Sri Lanka, wearing a bonnet of flowers.‘When this water buffalo lifted her head up, it looked like she had a fancy bonnet on so we called her Doris!’ fe Awards 2026 ‘I was on a trip to South Africa last year and we saw this little elephant messing around with his friend.
So, of course, I had to get the perfect shot of this cheeky little elephant’ life Awards 2026 ‘During my expedition to Svalbard archipelago in autumn 2024, I visited Moffen Island. There were a couple of groups of walruses resting on the beach who were very relaxed, lying next to each other, presumably to conserve body heat in the freezing Arctic temperatures. These animals are incredibly social, frequently lounging in large, tightly packed herds.
I was enjoying a majestic Arctic sunrise, when the local mafia decided to roll up on me – and spent 10 minutes giving me the ultimate Arctic inspection before swimming off’ ildlife Awards 2026 ‘I’m an amateur photographer in West Offaly, Ireland, capturing the wildlife that lives in our local boglands and wetlands. I spotted this brood of greylag goslings at Finnamore Lakes earlier this year. They are a regular sight in April and May, and after a swim in the lake, they snuggled down together in a fuzzy puddle.
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