And the winner is — a kangaroo enjoying air guitar.

The Comedy Wildlife Images Awards are back for an additional 12 months, and the grand prize goes to shutterbug Jason Moore for his picture entitled “Air Guitar Roo.”

Moore’s hilarious pic captured the minute a young female Western Gray Kangaroo experienced a second to herself where by he appeared to be jamming out on an invisible guitar with his eyes shut in bliss.

The shot was taken in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, in a discipline crammed with kangaroos hopping all over clusters of flowers.

“I had been out with my digicam photographing some waterfowl at a nearby lake. I had been up at dawn to acquire gain of the ‘golden hour’ gentle, but it turned out to be a disappointing early morning on the water,” Moore recounted in a assertion.

Begun by photographers for photographers, the awards are decided on from countless numbers of submissions each calendar year.

The picture was chosen from 5,300 entries submitted by 1,842 entrants from 85 nations.

While Moore had pushed previous this place quite a few situations, he decided to get out and walk all around with his digital camera on that day in August 2021 as the light strike the field just correct.

He claimed that despite their in some cases difficult name, kangaroos are typically relatively docile and “even a bit dull most of the time.”

“I finished up capturing about 40 or 50 frames of the kangaroos with a variety of written content which includes Mums, Joeys and also some motion photographs of them bouncing alongside by the yellow area,” Moore said.

“However, when I saw this roo putting the air guitar pose, it straight away brought a smile to my deal with, and I realized that I had captured something really particular. “

Organizers assert the choice was designed in the closest acquire at any time recorded in the level of competition.

Moore will be awarded a Kenyan Safari courtesy of Alex Walker’s Serian, a digicam bag from ThinkTank and a handmade trophy from the Ponder Workshop in Tanzania.

Many other images were awarded special mentions from the judges.

The opposition will reopen for new entries in March 2024.