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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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3 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

#8

Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Victoria Hillman Report

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#10

Finalist | Insects

Finalist | Insects

Minghui Yuan Report

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3 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

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Finalist | Animals

Finalist | Animals

Galice Hoarau Report

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3 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

#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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3 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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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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3 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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3 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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2nd place winner | Animals

2nd place winner | Animals

Spider in the Swamp

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StardustRainO8
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3 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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3 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

Note: this post originally had 100 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

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