30 Stunning Winning Photos From This Year's Close-Up Photographer Of The Year Competition
This year, photographers from 52 countries competed for the title of Close-up Photographer of the Year and submitted over 6,000 impressive entries.
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The Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) is an annual photography competition started back in 2019 where macro photographers from all over the world compete for the grand prize and the title of Close-up Photographer of the Year. The organizers have recently announced the winning photos and I'm pretty sure they will take your breath away.
Photographers from 52 countries competed in 7 different categories - Animals, Insects, Plants and Fungi, Intimate Landscape, Manmade World, Young (photographers under 17), and Micro (photos taken using a microscope) - and submitted over 6,000 impressive entries. However, there could only be one overall winner and the title of Close-up Photographer of the Year went to French photographer Galice Hoarau for his stunning photo of an eel larva. See the winning photo and the winners of other categories as well as the runner-ups in the gallery below!
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Image source: Andrei Savitsky
Glassworm
Image source: Bernhard Schubert
Image source: KONCZ-BISZTRICZ Tamás
Little Ball
Image source: Galice Hoarau
Eel Larva
Image source: Barry Webb
Image source: Juan Jesús González Ahumada
Image source: Mathieu Foulquié
Bufo Bufo
Image source: Minghui Yuan
Image source: Mike Curry
Fragile
Image source: Emelin Dupieux
Butterflies in the Light
Image source: Elizabeth Kazda
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
Image source: Petar Sabol
Image source: Victoria Hillman
Image source: Galice Hoarau
Image source: Petar Sabol
Image source: Alexander Mett
Image source: Jan Rosenboom
Image source: Henrik Spranz
Ballerina
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
Ice Landscape
Image source: Marcus Kam
Image source: Chien Lee
The Signal
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
Image source: Anna Ulmestrand
The Bullet
Image source: Csaba Daroczi
Spider in the Swamp
Image source: Sophia Spurgin
Image source: Joan Marques Faner
Image source: Ellen Woods
Image source: Cathryn Baldock
Image source: Johannes Klapwijk
Image source: Anette Holt
#1 Winner | Micro
Image source: Andrei Savitsky
Glassworm
#2 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Bernhard Schubert
#3 Winner | Young
Image source: KONCZ-BISZTRICZ Tamás
Little Ball
#4 Overall winner & Animals winner
Image source: Galice Hoarau
Eel Larva
#5 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Barry Webb
#6 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Juan Jesús González Ahumada
#7 3rd place winner | Animals
Image source: Mathieu Foulquié
Bufo Bufo
#8 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Minghui Yuan
#9 Winner | Insects
Image source: Mike Curry
Fragile
#10 3rd place winner | Young
Image source: Emelin Dupieux
Butterflies in the Light
#11 Winner | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Elizabeth Kazda
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
#12 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Petar Sabol
#13 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Victoria Hillman
#14 Finalist | Animals
Image source: Galice Hoarau
#15 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Petar Sabol
#16 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Alexander Mett
#17 Finalist | Micro
Image source: Jan Rosenboom
#18 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Henrik Spranz
Ballerina
#19 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
Ice Landscape
#20 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Marcus Kam
#21 3rd Place Winner | Insects
Image source: Chien Lee
The Signal
#22 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Edwin Giesbers
#23 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Image source: Anna Ulmestrand
The Bullet
#24 2nd place winner | Animals
Image source: Csaba Daroczi
Spider in the Swamp
#25 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Sophia Spurgin
#26 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Joan Marques Faner
#27 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Ellen Woods
#28 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Cathryn Baldock
#29 Finalist | Insects
Image source: Johannes Klapwijk
#30 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Image source: Anette HoltDE
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