The World Photography Awards has just launched its call for 2015's entries - and we've picked our favourites from last year's competition.

2014's contest included remarkable wildlife shots, intimate moments between families as well as epic landscapes and urban cityscapes.

Some of the most stunning images were selected to be exhibited at Somerset House this year in May and included the overall winner - a series of photographs of wet dogs.

The photographer Sophie Gamand took the pictures of wet dogs while they were being washed at a grooming parlor.

Each pup appears to be pulling a strange face as they're mid-clean, proving that dogs really don't enjoy their bath times.

Other shots include women with masks on their faces in Turkey, looking at police firing tear gas, a lion playing with a cat, and a nearly naked woman jumping into a lake, all of which you can see below.

The World Photography Awards were launched in 2008, and budding photographers as well as professional snappers from across the world can enter their pictures for free in a variety of different categories.

Photographers compete for a range of cash prizes and the latest cutting edge digital imaging equipment from Sony.

The overall winners will be announced at a gala ceremony held in London on 23 April 2015.

See worldphoto.org for more details.

Amazing wildlife and intimate family moments captured in world photography competition