30 Stunning Winning Photos From This Year’s Close-Up Photographer Of The Year Competition
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!
More info: CUPOTY
#1 Winner | Micro
Glassworm
#2 Finalist | Animals
#3 Winner | Young
Little Ball
#4 Overall winner & Animals winner
Eel Larva
#5 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi
#6 Finalist | Animals
#7 3rd place winner | Animals
Bufo Bufo
#8 Finalist | Insects
#9 Winner | Insects
Fragile
#10 3rd place winner | Young
Butterflies in the Light
#11 Winner | Plants & Fungi
Mandala with Miniature Tulips
#12 Finalist | Insects
#13 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#14 Finalist | Animals
#15 Finalist | Insects
#16 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#17 Finalist | Micro
#18 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi
Ballerina
#19 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape
Ice Landscape
#20 Finalist | Insects
#21 3rd Place Winner | Insects
The Signal
#22 Finalist | Insects
#23 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape
The Bullet
#24 2nd place winner | Animals
Spider in the Swamp
#25 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#26 Finalist | Insects
#27 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#28 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
#29 Finalist | Insects
#30 Finalist | Plants & Fungi
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