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!
1. Finalist | Animals
2. Overall winner & Animals winner
Eel Larva
3. Winner | Young
Little Ball
4. 3rd place winner | Animals
Bufo Bufo
5. Winner | Micro
Glassworm
6. 3rd place winner | Young
Butterflies in the Light
7. Finalist | Animals
8. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
9. 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
10. Finalist | Insects
11. Finalist | Insects
12. Finalist | Insects
13. Finalist | Animals
14. Winner | Insects
15. Finalist | Insects
16. 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
17. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
18. Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
19. Finalist | Micro
20. 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
The Bullet
21. 3rd Place Winner | Insects
The Signal
22. 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Ice Landscape
23. Finalist | Insects
24. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
25. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
26. Finalist | Insects
27. 2nd place winner | Animals
28. Finalist | Insects
29. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
30. Finalist | Plants & Fungi
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