The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, “the funniest and most popular photography competition in the world,” according to the award organizers, “has reached its conclusion and is proud to announce the overall and category winners” for this year.
Chosen from 5,300 entries from 85 countries, the image below by photographer Jason Moore of a female Western Grey Kangaroo practicing its air guitar was voted the funniest photo of the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Awards.
The overall winning image, entitled ‘Air Guitar Roo’, shows the little roo intent on practicing her musical technique in a field abundant with wildflowers in the outer suburbs of Perth, Australia.
“Not many people know that kangaroo are normally fairly docile and even a bit boring most of the time, if I’m honest,” Moore explained. “However, when I saw this roo striking the air guitar pose, it immediately brought a smile to my face and I knew that I had captured something special.”
The shot also won the Creatures of the Land category.
Moore wins a safari in the Masai Mara, Kenya, with AlexWalker's Serian and a handmade trophy from the Wonder Workshop in Tanzania.
The Comedy Wildlife popular competition, which also organizes the Comedy Pet Photography Awards, was founded in 2015 by Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, both professional photographers and passionate conservationists intent on creating “a refreshing, fun and free-to-enter photography competition unlike any other, showcasing seriously funny images of the earth’s most amazing wildlife.”
Celebrating the hilarity of our natural world and highlighting what we need to do to protect it, the contest is open to novices, amateur and professional photographers.
This year, the award is championing the work of the Whitley Fund for Nature, a British charity that supports conservation leaders working in their home countries across the global south.
For more than 30 years, the fund has channelled £20 million to more than 200 conservationists in 80 countries.
The announcement includes the winners and highly commended images in six categories.
The winning image “encapsulates a proper ‘happy vibe and feel-good factor’ - the very essence of what Comedy Wildlife is all about,” the judges said.
Vittorio Ricci won the Creatures of the Air Award for ‘Unexpected Plunge’. her photo of a striated heron ironically falling out of the sky and into the water.
An unusual and almost miserable end of a perfect moment, previously prepared, for a successful fishing plunge.
A puffin does an inverted snoopy impression while watching jelly fish.
This is a white grouse - not a snowball - in a very cold winter.
A white-winged dove appears to fly head-on into a cholla cactus skeleton.
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