See 100 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 Overall winner & Animals winner

Eel Larva

Image credits: Galice Hoarau

#2 3rd place winner | Animals

Bufo Bufo

Image credits: Mathieu Foulquié

#3 Winner | Micro

Glassworm

Image credits: Andrei Savitsky

#4 Winner | Insects

Fragile

Image credits: Mike Curry

#5 Winner | Young

Little Ball

Image credits: KONCZ-BISZTRICZ Tamás

#6 3rd place winner | Young

Butterflies in the Light

Image credits: Emelin Dupieux

#7 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape

The Bullet

Image credits: Anna Ulmestrand

#8 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape

Ice Landscape

Image credits: Edwin Giesbers

#9 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Bernhard Schubert

#10 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Juan Jesús González Ahumada

#11 2nd place winner | Animals

Spider in the Swamp

Image credits: Csaba Daroczi

#12 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Victoria Hillman

#13 Winner | Manmade World

Life Cycle of Soap Bubble Iridescence

Image credits: Kym Cox

#14 3rd Place Winner | Insects

The Signal

Image credits: Chien Lee

#15 Winner | Plants & Fungi

Mandala with Miniature Tulips

Image credits: Elizabeth Kazda

#16 3rd Place Winner | Plants & Fungi

Ballerina

Image credits: Henrik Spranz

#17 2nd place winner | Micro

Recrystallized Callus Remover 3

Image credits: Marek Miś

#18 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Anette Holt

#19 2nd place winner | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Barry Webb

#20 2nd place winner | Insects

Water Scorpions

Image credits: Juan Jesús González Ahumada

#21 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Jade Hoksbergen

#22 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Alexander Mett

#23 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Bart Heirweg

#24 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Brian Haslam

#25 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Bruno Militelli

#26 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Cathryn Baldock

#27 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Csaba Daroczi

#28 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Csaba Daroczi

#29 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Edwin Giesbers

#30 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Ellen Woods

#31 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Jacky Parker

#32 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Joan Marques Faner

#33 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Johannes Klapwijk

#34 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Jonathan Lhoir

#35 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Jose Pesquero

#36 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Marcus Kam

#37 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Mark James Ford

#38 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Minghui Yuan

#39 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Norm Barker

#40 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Ruben Perez Novo

#41 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Sophia Spurgin

#42 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Galice Hoarau

#43 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Jacky Parker

#44 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Ronald Zimmerman

#45 Winner | Intimate Landscape

Cast in Stone

Image credits: Mark James Ford

#46 3rd place winner | Micro

Green Hydra Multi Exposure

Image credits: Heather Angel

#47 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Minghui Yuan

#48 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Barry Webb

#49 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Bence Mate

#50 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Bernhard Schubert

#51 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Bernhard Schubert

#52 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Chien Lee

#53 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Emanuele Biggi

#54 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Hal Gage

#55 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Luca Eberle

#56 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Marco Maggesi

#57 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Perdita Petzl

#58 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Petar Sabol

#59 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Petar Sabol

#60 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Sébastien Blomme

#61 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Stefan Gerrits

#62 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Steven David Johnson

#63 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Svetlana Ivanenko

#64 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Svetlana Ivanenko

#65 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Tina Claffey

#66 Finalist | Insects

Image credits: Dr Tony Cooper

#67 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Laurent Hesemans

#68 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Roberto García Roa

#69 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Chien Lee

#70 Finalist | Animals

Image credits: Geoff Hyde

#71 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Mark Banks

#72 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Sergio Tapia

#73 2nd Place Winner | Manmade World

Towards the Mountain

Image credits: Melanie Collie

#74 3rd place winner | Manmade World

Oil and Water 15

Image credits: Mirka van Renswoude

#75 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: Mike Curry

#76 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: Matthew Cattell

#77 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Billie Hughes

#78 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Henri Koskinen

#79 2nd place winner | Young

Rock Star

Image credits: Giacomo Redaelli

#80 Finalist | Young

Image credits: Tommaso Redaelli

#81 Finalist | Young

Image credits: Anya Burnell

#82 Finalist | Young

Image credits: Bori Papp

#83 Finalist | Plants & Fungi

Image credits: Victor Ortega

#84 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Håkan Kvarnström

#85 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Don Komarechka

#86 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Jan Rosenboom

#87 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: Mirka van Renswoude

#88 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Csaba Daroczi

#89 Finalist | Young

Image credits: Giacomo Redaelli

#90 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Caleb Dawson

#91 Finalist | Young

Image credits: Jake Kneale

#92 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Marek Miś

#93 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Norm Barker

#94 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Gerd A. Günther

#95 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Pete Hyde

#96 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: Benoit Audureau

#97 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: David Pearce

#98 Finalist | Intimate Landscape

Image credits: Fiona McCowan

#99 Finalist | Manmade World

Image credits: Dirk Vermaire

#100 Finalist | Micro

Image credits: Katie Waddington