The Close-Up Photography Awards that celebrates and showcases close-up, macro, and microphotography, has just announced its winners and finalists. The overall Close-up Photographer of the Year award was won by a French photographer Galice Hoarau for his image of an eel larva, captured off the island of Lembeh, Indonesia. Other stunning winners include spiders, geckos, flowers, and other magnificent shots.
The competition comprised of seven categories—Animals, Insects, Plants and Fungi, Intimate Landscape, Manmade World, Young (for creatives under 17), and Micro (for photographs taken with a microscope).
The 100 winners were chosen from more than 6,000 entries that came from 52 countries from around the globe. Scroll down below to see the selection of the best shots and tell us what you think of them in the comment section!
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#1 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Bernhard Schubert
#2 Overall winner & Animals winner
Eel Larva
Image source: Galice Hoarau
#3 Winner | Young
Little Ball
Image source: KONCZ-BISZTRICZ Tamás
#4 3rd place winner | Animals
Bufo Bufo
Image source: Mathieu Foulquié
#5 Winner | Micro
Glassworm
Image source: Andrei Savitsky
#6 3rd place winner | Young
Butterflies in the Light
Image source: Emelin Dupieux
#7 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Juan Jesús González Ahumada
#8 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Victoria Hillman
#9 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Barry Webb
#10 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Minghui Yuan
#11 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Petar Sabol
#12 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Petar Sabol
#13 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Galice Hoarau
#14 Winner | Insects
Fragile
Image source: Mike Curry
#15 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
#16 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
Image source: Henrik Spranz
#17 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Alexander Mett
#18 Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
Image source: Elizabeth Kazda
#19 Finalist | Micro
Image source: Jan Rosenboom
#20 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
The Bullet
Image source: Anna Ulmestrand
#21 3rd Place Winner | Insects
The Signal
Image source: Chien Lee
#22 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Ice Landscape
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
#23 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Joan Marques Faner
#24 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Sophia Spurgin
#25 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Ellen Woods
#26 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Marcus Kam
#27 2nd place winner | Animals
Spider in the Swamp
Image source: Csaba Daroczi
#28 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Johannes Klapwijk
#29 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Cathryn Baldock
#30 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Anette Holt
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