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Gallery: give us a sense of humour

May 19, 2025 / 29 Comments

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humour with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

Sean O’Casey

We can all think of a few Big Fellows right now who are trying to take our peace away. So yes, we do indeed need a sense of humour. And as photographers we can look for the things that make us laugh through the lens of our cameras.

Sometimes you are aware as you take a photo that it shows something amusing. At other times the humour in the shot only strikes you later. This week’s Lens Artists challenge host, Tina, reminds us that a sense of humour is a valuable thing to have in our present tough times. Indeed, it’s a valuable thing to have at any time. She invites us to look for the humour in our photos, whether intentional or otherwise, and to caption them accordingly.

We had a similar exercise a few years ago, when John asked us to share some humorous shots. So as not to duplicate, for today’s post I’ve had a look through my more recent files to select a few that made me smile.

I couldn’t think of a good caption for my feature photo, taken in Loreto in Baja California Sur, Mexico, but it seemed a good introduction to this post, one that I hope will raise some laughs.

‘I’m hopeless until I’ve had the first coffee of the day’

Outside a Phnom Penh coffeeshop, Cambodia

‘In England we weed our gardens, in Colombia they weed their beer’

In Comuna 13, Medellin, Colombia

‘I’ve been searching all my life for my Doppelgänger’

The Plaza Botero, Medellin, Colombia

‘Rumming on empty’

Shop window display, Filandia, Colombia

‘Well, that advertising campaign was a waste of good money; no one came!’

Sign in Pokhara, Nepal

‘Who needs vaccines when we have hot sauce?’

Café in Sant Elena, Costa Rica

‘I may be a mighty silverback but I still don’t want to get my hair wet’

In a coffeeshop in Coyoacán, Mexico

‘As if I needed another reason to drink coffee!’

In a local restaurant near Bangaan, Philippines

One ant to another, ‘Does my bum look big in this?’

Queing for the cable car, Montserrate, Bogota, Colombia

‘Can’t a guy get a bit of peace and quiet round here to read the paper?’

At a service station near Indian Springs, Nevada

‘Even superwomen need to go sometimes’

At a service station near Indian Springs, Nevada

‘Sometimes all you want to do is flop in front of the TV’

Display in a service station in Colombia

‘Oh, I’m in no condition to drive. Wait a minute. I don’t have to listen to myself. I’m drunk.’ (Homer Simpson)

In Mexico City

‘To boldly go where no one has gone before’

Parked by the Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California

‘I get a great bit o’ pleasure from American Nuts’

In Bhaktapur, Nepal

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