Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) was founded in 2018 by Tracy and Dan Calder. It is the largest competition in the world dedicated to close-up, macro and micro photography. “If your photos ...

We always love sharing the best photographers out there, and this time, we’ve prepared some spectacular shots that bring the reality around us into sharper focus. Thanks to the 2024 Close-Up ...

Smile-for-the-Camera, Finalist Invertebrate Portrait category: A young female white-legged damselfly Austria. Celebrating the details most people overlook, the Close-up Photographer of the Year ...

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Can I Help You? Category: Young; A harvest mouse peers out from behind stalks of wheat. The Close Up Photographer Of The Year competition has unveiled its shortlist of amazing photos showcasing nature ...

Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall are just some of the many scenes that wowed judges during the annual Close-up ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

In the deep waters surrounding the island of Romblon in the Philippines, a tiny, translucent moray eel larva twirls its body into the shape of a heart. Photographer Liang Fu captured the ethereal ...

The winner of the latest Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition captured a stunning shot of two young salamanders being slowly devoured by a carnivorous plant. The contest, only in its fourth ...

Many of us would walk right by a slime mold-covered log or glance only briefly at a pair of dead salamanders, without giving them a second thought. But for a select few photographers with a keen eye ...