Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2024 winners were announced: NIKON COMEDY WILDLIFE AWARDS 2024 WINNERS ANNOUNCED The funniest and most popular photography competition in the world – The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has reached its conclusion and at an Awards Night at the Oxo Gallery in London, Milko Marchetti was announced as the OVERALL WINNER of this year’s competition for his excellent capture of a red squirrel stuck in a tree entitled ‘Stuck Squirrel.’ Over 9000 images were entered, the highest number ever for the Awards in its glorious ten-year history, from professional and amateur photographers vying for the top accolade of being the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Around 45 of the very best entries were then selected for the judging panel to choose their favourites. As always, it was fiercely competitive, with only a few points between the top 5 entries, but Milko’s image was popular across the board with the judges, with his extraordinary capture of a red squirrel entering his hide in a tree and his legs at right angles to the trunk. The scene was over in a flash, as Milko recalls: “I have taken many, many photographs of squirrels, in many situations over the years in Italy, but this one struck me as really funny and such a strange position, because it is that exact moment when the squirrel is detaching its back legs from the trunk to enter its hide. Whenever I show this image at the nature seminars at...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Thursday, 12 December