
© Andrei Savitsky | www.cupoty.com
Seeing the world around us from up close gives us a whole new perspective of even the most everyday things. If you enjoy rediscovering your surroundings through photography, you’re gonna love this year’s winners of the Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) contest. It celebrates close-up, macro, and micro photography, and it lets us see the world anew.
The contest is now in its second year and it has received more than 6,500 images from photographers across 52 different countries. There are six categories of competition:
- Animals
- Insects
- Plants & Fungi
- Intimate Landscapes
- Manmade World
- Micro
In addition to these, there is also the seventh category, Young, dedicated to photographers under 17 years of age.
The flattering title of the Close-up Photographer of the Year was awarded to Galice Hoarau, a French professor in marine molecular ecology. He was also the winner of the Animals category of the contest with his image of an eel larva that he spotted during a blackwater dive in Indonesia. As for the Young Close-up Photographer of the Year, the title was awarded to 16-year-old Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz from Hungary. His winning photo shows springtail in a frosty meadow close to his home in Hungary.

© Galice Hoarau | www.cupoty.com; Overall winner and Animals winner

© Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz | www.cupoty.com; winner, Young
The overall winner and the category winners can be viewed at www.cupoty.com. We bring you the top three photos from each category below and make sure to visit CUPOTY for more extraordinary photos of the ordinary world around us.
Animals

© Csaba Daroczi | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Mathieu Foulquie | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Insects

© Mike Curry | www.cupoty.com; winner

© Juan Jesús González Ahumada | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Chien Lee | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Plants & Fungi

© Elizabeth Kazda | www.cupoty.com; winner

© Barry Webb | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Henrik Spranz | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Intimate Landscape

© Mark James Ford | www.cupoty.com; winner

© Anna Ulmestrand | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Edwin Giesbers | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Manmade World

© Kym Cox| www.cupoty.com; winner

© Melanie Collie | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Mirka van Renswoude | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Micro

© Andrei Savitsky| www.cupoty.com; winner

© Marek Mís | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Heather Angel | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
Young

© Giacomo Redaelli | www.cupoty.com; 2nd place

© Emelin Dupieux | www.cupoty.com; 3rd place
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