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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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    #4

    3rd place winner | Animals

    3rd place winner | Animals

    Bufo Bufo

    Mathieu Foulquié Report

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    Pseudo Puppy
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.....

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    #5

    Winner | Micro

    Winner | Micro

    Glassworm

    Andrei Savitsky Report

    #6

    3rd place winner | Young

    3rd place winner | Young

    Butterflies in the Light

    Emelin Dupieux Report

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    #10

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Minghui Yuan Report

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    Autumn
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I can see when I look at that plant is eyes. That dragonfly is riding on someone's head.

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    #11

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Petar Sabol Report

    #13

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Galice Hoarau Report

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    ERIN W.
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Forgive me is this a squid perhaps or a cuttle fish?! HELP PLEASE! SORRY! BUT I DO think this a neat shot though!

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    #14

    Winner | Insects

    Winner | Insects

    Fragile

    Mike Curry Report

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    #16

    3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi

    3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi

    Ballerina

    Henrik Spranz Report

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    #18

    Winner | Plants & Fungi

    Winner | Plants & Fungi

    Mandala with Miniature Tulips

    Elizabeth Kazda Report

    #20

    2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape

    2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape

    The Bullet

    Anna Ulmestrand Report

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    Jon S.
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A bullet in water? I'm not sure what I'm seeing, although it is aesthetically pleasing

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    #22

    3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape

    3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape

    Ice Landscape

    Edwin Giesbers Report

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    Melody Lanzatella
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Id like to see what this is a shot of! We have no frame of reference here for perspective!

    #23

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Joan Marques Faner Report

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    #26

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Marcus Kam Report

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    Melody Lanzatella
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    #27

    2nd place winner | Animals

    2nd place winner | Animals

    Spider in the Swamp

    Csaba Daroczi Report

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    StardustRainO8
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a minute i thought the leaves were snakes ready to eat it. Then I looked again.

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    #28

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Johannes Klapwijk Report

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    Autumn
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually love this. Ot's really cool and for some reason thought provoking....

    #30

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Anette Holt Report

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    #31

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Bence Mate Report

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    #34

    Winner | Intimate Landscape

    Winner | Intimate Landscape

    Cast in Stone

    Mark James Ford Report

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    Jon S.
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh cool, reading the artist's notes it says this is lava setting. Taken in Hawaii.

    #35

    2nd place winner | Young

    2nd place winner | Young

    Rock Star

    Giacomo Redaelli Report

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    #37

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Mark James Ford Report

    #39

    Winner | Manmade World

    Winner | Manmade World

    Life Cycle of Soap Bubble Iridescence

    Kym Cox Report

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    #40

    Finalist | Young

    Finalist | Young

    Giacomo Redaelli Report

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    #41

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Csaba Daroczi Report

    #42

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Marco Maggesi Report

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    #43

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Norm Barker Report

    #44

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Svetlana Ivanenko Report

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    #46

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Victor Ortega Report

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    #48

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Csaba Daroczi Report

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    #52

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Jose Pesquero Report

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    #53

    2nd place winner | Insects

    2nd place winner | Insects

    Water Scorpions

    Juan Jesús González Ahumada Report

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    #54

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Ruben Perez Novo Report

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    #55

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Svetlana Ivanenko Report

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    #57

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Sergio Tapia Report

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    #58

    2nd place winner | Micro

    2nd place winner | Micro

    Recrystallized Callus Remover 3

    Marek Miś Report

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    #59

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Norm Barker Report

    #60

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Finalist | Manmade World

    David Pearce Report

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    #61

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Barry Webb Report

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    #62

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Bart Heirweg Report

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    #63

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Brian Haslam Report

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yummy, passionfruit, although I think this one may be an ornamental one.

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    #65

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Emanuele Biggi Report

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    #66

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Hal Gage Report

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    #69

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Perdita Petzl Report

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    #70

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Sébastien Blomme Report

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    #71

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Steven David Johnson Report

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    #72

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Geoff Hyde Report

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    #73

    3rd place winner | Manmade World

    3rd place winner | Manmade World

    Oil and Water 15

    Mirka van Renswoude Report

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    #74

    3rd place winner | Micro

    3rd place winner | Micro

    Green Hydra Multi Exposure

    Heather Angel Report

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    #75

    Finalist | Young

    Finalist | Young

    Tommaso Redaelli Report

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    #76

    Finalist | Young

    Finalist | Young

    Anya Burnell Report

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    #77

    Finalist | Young

    Finalist | Young

    Jake Kneale Report

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    #78

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Marek Miś Report

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    #79

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Gerd A. Günther Report

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    #80

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Fiona McCowan Report

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    #81

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Minghui Yuan Report

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    #82

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Finalist | Plants & Fungi

    Bernhard Schubert Report

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    #83

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Chien Lee Report

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    #84

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Stefan Gerrits Report

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    #85

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Tina Claffey Report

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    #86

    Finalist | Insects

    Finalist | Insects

    Dr Tony Cooper Report

    #87

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Roberto García Roa Report

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    #88

    Finalist | Animals

    Finalist | Animals

    Chien Lee Report

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    #89

    2nd Place Winner | Manmade World

    2nd Place Winner | Manmade World

    Towards the Mountain

    Melanie Collie Report

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    #90

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Mike Curry Report

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    #91

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Matthew Cattell Report

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    #92

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Henri Koskinen Report

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    #93

    Finalist | Young

    Finalist | Young

    Bori Papp Report

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    #94

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Håkan Kvarnström Report

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    #95

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Caleb Dawson Report

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    #96

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Finalist | Intimate Landscape

    Pete Hyde Report

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    #97

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Dirk Vermaire Report

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    #98

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Billie Hughes Report

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    #99

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Finalist | Manmade World

    Mirka van Renswoude Report

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    #100

    Finalist | Micro

    Finalist | Micro

    Katie Waddington Report

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