20 photos that will make you smile
| 23rd May 2020
A picture can paint a thousand words and now’s your chance to enter the world’s largest amateur photo competition and raise a smile with last year’s beautiful entries.
These gorgeous photos help to capture the world with many places around the globe that for now we cannot visit yet is a reminder of what we will be able to see when we can travel once again.
The images celebrate the theme ‘Our World is Beautiful’ and have been released to spread joy.
Over 448,152 photos were submitted as part of the CEWE Photo Award 2020 – officially the largest photo competition in the world.
Now 20 of the most cheerful ones have been released. From a group of children playing in Hungary to a man and woman embracing in Tanzania, it’s smiles all round in this collection of stunning images.
And if you fancy a try in this year’s competition, then you can as entries are now open.
You can find the website here , with more details on how you can win over £250,000 of prizes including holidays and photography equipment.
In the meantime, grab yourself a cuppa and enjoy these images of joy where there are smiles all round!
A couple in Nungwi, Tanzania, embrace in this photo, taken by Anna Zię.
We’ll all be jumping for joy when we can spend time with our friends again outdoors. Here a pair of friends throw sand in the air in this photo by Tanja Zech in Knokke-Heist, Germany.
It’s all about the eyes in this photo, captured by Monika Messavilla in Rangun, Myanmar.
It’s all about the eyes in this photo, captured by Monika Messavilla in Rangun, Myanmar.
Who says being stuck inside has to be boring? Photo taken by Emilia Wilgosz-Peter in Strzebielino, Poland.
The sky’s the limit in this shot by Slovenian photographer Dejan Mijovic.
A man finds a novel way to keep up with his grandchildren in this photo by Josef Hinterleitner in Sierning, Austria.
A boy presses his face up to the glass in this humourous photo, taken by Jose R. Moreno in Logroño, Spain.
A girl smiles at a collection of pink balloons in this joyful shot by Monika Vašková in Prauge, Czech Republic.
A boy takes great joy in his breakfast in this shot from Poland, taken by Joanna Pęciak.
Two boys share a smile in this photo, taken by Miroslaw Mlynarczyk in Kibish, Ethiopia.
A student says hello to a friend at the start of the school day in Livingstone, Zambia, in this photo by Carina Pilz, from Germany.
A group of children play a game in this shot by Krunoslav Večenaj, in Koprivnica, Croatia.
A happy moment in a lavender field is captured in this photo by Boris Jufer in Valensole, France.
Rainy days don’t have to be gloomy, as this photo by Patrycja Gorecka in London shows.
This photo by Gábor Varga in Pécs, Hungary, captures the joy and wonder of a bedtime story.
It’s smiles all round in this photo, captioned hide and seek, by Mária Szabó in Bag, Hungary.
A boy chases a red ball in this aerial shot by Jean Fraipont in Chiusi, Italy.
Laughter is the best medicine in this photo by Pierre-Etienne Vincent, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Two boys make their own fun in this photo, captured by Eric Tkindt in Kalaw, Myanmar.
Children splash around in the summer sunshine in this photo by Krunoslav Večenaj in Herešin Croatia.