The winners and finalists of the 2023 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) Awards have just been announced! Over 2,000 entries were submitted from 67 countries, and the judges have selected the best photographs across eleven categories: Animals, Insects, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Invertebrate Portrait, Underwater, Plants, Fungi and Slime Moulds, Intimate Landscape, Human Made, Micro (for images created using a microscope), and Young Close-up Photographer of the Year (for entrants aged 17 or under).
1st Place In The Category Of Fungi And Slime Moulds: “The Ice Crown” By Barry Webb
2nd Place In The Category Of Animals: “Dune Wrestling” By Victor Tyakht
1st Place In The Category Of Insects: “Wood Ants Firing Acid Secretion” By René Krekels
3rd Place In The Category Of Animals “Natural Architecture” By David Joseph
2nd Place In The Category Of Butterflies And Dragonflies: “Letting Go” By Steve Russell
2nd Place In The Category Of Young: “Comatricha Nigra” By Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
2nd Place In The Category Of Underwater: “Heart Of The Sea” By Liang Fu
1st Place In The Category Of Butterflies And Dragonflies: “The Wedding Guest” By Csaba Daróczi
2nd Place In The Category Of Invertebrate Portrait: “Orange Isopod” By Manfred Auer
Close-Up Photographer Of The Year 2023 And 1st Place In The Category Of Animals: “The Bird Of The Forest” By Csaba Daróczi
2nd Place In The Category Of Intimate Landscape: “Ice Fossiel” By Piet Haaksma
1st Place In The Category Of Plants: “Reflexion” By Ria Bloemendaal
1st Place In The Category Of Underwater: “Dreamtime” By Simon Theuma
3rd Place In The Category Of Fungi And Slime Moulds: “Fungi And Fairy Dust” By Sophia Spurgin
3rd Place In The Category Of Insects: “Circular Trenching Behavior By A Leaf Beetle” By Liang Fu
1st Place In The Category Of Invertebrate Portrait: “Jumping Stick” By Tibor Molnar
1st Place In The Category Of Micro: “Beach Grass” By Gerhard Vlcek
2nd Place In The Category Of Insects: “Mosquito Egg Raft” By Barry Webb
3rd Place In The Category Of Young: “Dicyrtomina Ornata” By Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
2nd Place In The Category Of Micro: “Amoeba” By Håkan Kvarnström
2nd Place In The Category Of Plants: “Tears In My Eyes” By Wim Vooijs
3rd Place In The Category Of Butterflies And Dragonflies: “Sunrise Beauty” By Wim Vooijs
2nd Place In The Category Of Fungi And Slime Moulds: “Autumn Emergence” By Jay Birmingham
1st Place In The Category Of Human Made: “Asymmetrical Threads” By Elizabeth Kazda
3rd Place In The Category Of Invertebrate Portrait: “Dancing Sands, Violin Crab” By Lior Berman
1st Place In The Category Of Young: “Small Wanders” By Carlos Pérez Naval
3rd Place In The Category Of Underwater: “Pinkaboo” By Chris Gug
3rd Place In The Category Of Intimate Landscape: “The Sorcerors Apprentice” By Jack Krohn
2nd Place In The Category Of Human Made: “Colour Study 51” By Paul Gravett
3rd Place In The Category Of Micro: “Twisted Dandelion” By Harald Cederlund
3rd Place In The Category Of Plants: “Golden Agave” By Beth Debor
1st Place In The Category Of Intimate Landscape: “Undertow” By Csaba Daróczi
3rd Place In The Category Of Human Made: “Ferro Field” By Jack Margerison
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