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See 30 Winners Of The Close-Up Photography Of The Year 2020 Competition
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
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#2
Overall winner & Animals winner
Eel Larva
#3
Winner | Young
Little Ball
#4
3rd place winner | Animals
Bufo Bufo
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
nope nope nope... I can deal with snakes, & spiders.... but toads... nope. Too many horror memories of watching the local kids play "toad cricket" or "toad hockey" as a kid.... nope.....
#5
Winner | Micro
Glassworm
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Looks like it's made from rainbow iridescent cellophane. Amazing!
#6
3rd place winner | Young
Butterflies in the Light
#7
Finalist | Animals
Brittania Kelli 5 years ago
Yes, they are all glorious photos but I wish they came with better descriptions of what kind of creature/plant/place was being captured.
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#8
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#9
2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
#10
Finalist | Insects
Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
What a perfect shot! THAT is a great example of award winning photography!
#12
Finalist | Insects
MantisGirl13 5 years ago
Looks like a damsel fly, which is very similar ot s dragon fly but with a skinnier body
Load More Replies... Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
One of the best macro shots Ive ever seen! (look at that beard and stash!) LOL
#13
Finalist | Animals
ERIN W. 5 years ago
Forgive me is this a squid perhaps or a cuttle fish?! HELP PLEASE! SORRY! BUT I DO think this a neat shot though!
Brittania Kelli 5 years ago
It is definitely a type of squid. Do you see the flaps of skin off the body, the way they are triangular? That's a characteristic of squid, cuttlefish have a fringe of skin that goes around the whole body.
Load More Replies... Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
This is definitely of the cephalopoda family. But since it is "close-up" photography, and of smallish subjects, I am guessing this must be a baby squid or some such!
#14
Winner | Insects
Fragile
#15
Finalist | Insects
#16
3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
#17
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#18
Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
As pretty as this is, I wish it hadn't been staged. I'm not even sure that it wasn't photoshopped, because the petals on the purple flowers are in the exact same positions all around.
Beth Kazda 5 years ago
Hello! I am the photographer for this photo. It ABSOLUTELY was not photoshopped! I have developed a painstaking in-camera technique of photographing my subjects using a rotating platform. The tulips were photographed at 8 equidistant positions in order to complete the full rotation. An in-camera multiple exposure of 8 exposures was used to create the mandala. My goal with my work is to show the natural world in a unique way. That is why I "stage" the photo. Elizabeth Kazda
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#19
Finalist | Micro
#20
2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
The Bullet
Jon S. 5 years ago
A bullet in water? I'm not sure what I'm seeing, although it is aesthetically pleasing
serato 5 years ago
Follow the photoprapher's name which is a link: "‘Close to where I live there is an old abandoned mill by a pond. Water flows down the mountain into a giant cauldron here, and during winter it creates huge icicles. The problem is how to get there – there are no paths or rocks to step on. Thankfully, I discovered a solution in the form of a portable fire ladder! Walking from the car to the mill took time, and was even harder because I was wearing thick clothes and carrying the ladder. To get into position I tied the ladder to a tree and used it to climb down. Once down there, I noticed that there was no mobile phone reception! As usual, I had no idea what I was going to find, apart from plenty of ice, but I wasn’t disappointed when I spotted this frozen air bubble inside an icicle.’"
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#21
3rd Place Winner | Insects
The Signal
#22
3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Ice Landscape
Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
Id like to see what this is a shot of! We have no frame of reference here for perspective!
#24
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#25
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#26
Finalist | Insects
Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
This reminds me of the Alcon Blue butterfly AKA "Cuckoo" butterfly that fools ants into caring for their young because their larvae smell like ant larvae! The ant finds it on the ground and thinks its an ant beebee and takes it back to the nest and feeds it and takes care of it until it has become a butterfly, crawls out of its encasement and flies away!
#27
2nd place winner | Animals
Spider in the Swamp
StardustRainO8 5 years ago
For a minute i thought the leaves were snakes ready to eat it. Then I looked again.
#28
Finalist | Insects
#29
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#30
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Melody Lanzatella 5 years ago
Yep! Once again...we have no idea what we are looking at. No perspective.
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Autumn 5 years ago
I think it might be an microscopic photo of a fungus or mayne some sort of plant?? I don't know tho... If any one has better information pls post.
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#31
Finalist | Animals
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Took me a minute to figure out what was happening at the forefront.
#32
Finalist | Animals
#33
Finalist | Insects
#34
Winner | Intimate Landscape
Cast in Stone
#38
Finalist | Intimate Landscape
#45
Finalist | Animals
#47
Finalist | Intimate Landscape
#49
Finalist | Manmade World
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
Reminds me of the 70s music videos where they have psychedelic imagery (inspired by people on ecstacy)
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#51
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Roselyn Park 5 years ago
Its common name is the Chinese Lantern. https://nimvo.com/the-chinese-lantern-plant/
#63
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Yummy, passionfruit, although I think this one may be an ornamental one.
#78
Finalist | Micro
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What do you think ?
Toby Flenderson 5 years ago
The spider covered in baby spiders should have been in the category "waking nightmares".
Toby Flenderson 5 years ago
The spider covered in baby spiders should have been in the category "waking nightmares".
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