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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!
#7
Finalist | Animals
#8
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#9
2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
#10
Finalist | Insects
#12
Finalist | Insects
#13
Finalist | Animals
#15
Finalist | Insects
#16
3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
#17
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#18
Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
#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
#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
#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
#47
Finalist | Intimate Landscape
#49
Finalist | Manmade World
#51
Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#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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