Air guitar-playing Kangaroo Wins Awards

Agencies – Sudan Events

A kangaroo playing air guitar is the winner of this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
“Air Guitar Roo”, shot by Jason Moore, captures the moment the animal seemingly plays in an open wildflower field in Perth. It was taken in August 2021.
The photograph beat 5,300 others by 1,842 entrants from 85 countries. It also won the Creatures of the Land category.
Describing how he took the picture, Moore says he had been out since sunrise hoping to photograph waterfowl at a lake, but had a disappointing morning.
“When I arrived, there were a number of kangaroos in the field,” he adds. “The morning light was still favourable so I grabbed my camera and headed off to a spot where I could get down to eye level with my subjects, amongst the biting ticks – the lengths we go to just to get that perfect image.
“I ended up shooting about 40 or 50 frames of the kangaroos with various content including mums, joeys and also some action shots of them bouncing along through the yellow field.”
He adds: “The shoot turned out to be a great session, and I am quite fond of several images that I captured. Not many people know that kangaroos are normally fairly docile and even a bit boring most of the time. 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 really special.”