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).
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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 Overall winner & Animals winner
Eel Larva
Image credits: Galice Hoarau
#2 3rd place winner | Animals
Bufo Bufo
Image credits: Mathieu Foulquié
#3 Winner | Micro
Glassworm
Image credits: Andrei Savitsky
#4 Winner | Insects
Fragile
Image credits: Mike Curry
#5 Winner | Young
Little Ball
Image credits: KONCZ-BISZTRICZ Tamás
#6 3rd place winner | Young
Butterflies in the Light
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Image credits: Emelin Dupieux
#7 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
The Bullet
Image credits: Anna Ulmestrand
#8 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Ice Landscape
Image credits: Edwin Giesbers
#9 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Bernhard Schubert
#10 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Juan Jesús González Ahumada
#11 2nd place winner | Animals
Spider in the Swamp
Image credits: Csaba Daroczi
#12 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Victoria Hillman
#13 Winner | Manmade World
Life Cycle of Soap Bubble Iridescence
Image credits: Kym Cox
#14 3rd Place Winner | Insects
The Signal
Image credits: Chien Lee
#15 Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
Image credits: Elizabeth Kazda
#16 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
Image credits: Henrik Spranz
#17 2nd place winner | Micro
Recrystallized Callus Remover 3
Image credits: Marek Miś
#18 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Anette Holt
#19 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Barry Webb
#20 2nd place winner | Insects
Water Scorpions
Image credits: Juan Jesús González Ahumada
#21 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Sophia Spurgin
#22 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Jade Hoksbergen
#23 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Alexander Mett
#24 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Bart Heirweg
#25 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Bence Mate
#26 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Brian Haslam
#27 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Bruno Militelli
#28 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Cathryn Baldock
#29 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Csaba Daroczi
#30 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Csaba Daroczi
#31 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Edwin Giesbers
#32 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Ellen Woods
#33 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Emanuele Biggi
#34 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Jacky Parker
#35 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Joan Marques Faner
#36 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Johannes Klapwijk
#37 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Jonathan Lhoir
#38 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Jose Pesquero
#39 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Marcus Kam
#40 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Mark James Ford
#41 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Minghui Yuan
#42 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Norm Barker
#43 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Ruben Perez Novo
#44 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Galice Hoarau
#45 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Jacky Parker
#46 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Ronald Zimmerman
#47 Winner | Intimate Landscape
Cast in Stone
Image credits: Mark James Ford
#48 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Mark Banks
#49 3rd place winner | Micro
Green Hydra Multi Exposure
Image credits: Heather Angel
#50 2nd place winner | Young
Rock Star
Image credits: Giacomo Redaelli
#51 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Jan Rosenboom
#52 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Minghui Yuan
#53 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Barry Webb
#54 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Bernhard Schubert
#55 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Chien Lee
#56 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Hal Gage
#57 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Luca Eberle
#58 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Marco Maggesi
#59 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Perdita Petzl
#60 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Petar Sabol
#61 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Petar Sabol
#62 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Sébastien Blomme
#63 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Stefan Gerrits
#64 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Steven David Johnson
#65 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Svetlana Ivanenko
#66 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Svetlana Ivanenko
#67 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Tina Claffey
#68 Finalist | Insects
Image credits: Dr Tony Cooper
#69 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Laurent Hesemans
#70 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Roberto García Roa
#71 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Chien Lee
#72 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Geoff Hyde
#73 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Sergio Tapia
#74 2nd Place Winner | Manmade World
Towards the Mountain
Image credits: Melanie Collie
#75 3rd place winner | Manmade World
Oil and Water 15
Image credits: Mirka van Renswoude
#76 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: Mike Curry
#77 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: Matthew Cattell
#78 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Billie Hughes
#79 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Henri Koskinen
#80 Finalist | Young
Image credits: Tommaso Redaelli
#81 Finalist | Young
Image credits: Anya Burnell
#82 Finalist | Young
Image credits: Bori Papp
#83 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image credits: Victor Ortega
#84 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Håkan Kvarnström
#85 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Don Komarechka
#86 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: Mirka van Renswoude
#87 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Csaba Daroczi
#88 Finalist | Young
Image credits: Giacomo Redaelli
#89 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Caleb Dawson
#90 Finalist | Young
Image credits: Jake Kneale
#91 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Marek Miś
#92 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Norm Barker
#93 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Gerd A. Günther
#94 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Pete Hyde
#95 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: Benoit Audureau
#96 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: David Pearce
#97 Finalist | Intimate Landscape
Image credits: Fiona McCowan
#98 Finalist | Manmade World
Image credits: Dirk Vermaire
#99 Finalist | Micro
Image credits: Katie Waddington
#100 Finalist | Animals
Image credits: Bernhard Schubert
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