Minghui Yuan – Cleaners in the Rainforest. Minghui Yuan / CUPOTY View 19 Images –
This is the 6th edition of the annual competition dedicated to highlighting the best in close-up, macro, and micro photography. The 25 judges combed through 11,681 photographs across 11 categories, in a bid to award one winner a £2,500 ($3,245) cash top prize and a trophy.
Flipping through this year’s shortlist, I was blown away by the technical skills, artistic compositions and otherworldly subjects on display all at once. We’ve curated a selection of fascinating images from nine categories of photographs of natural marvels, including animals, insects, arachnids, and invertebrates. You can see a couple below, but can find them all in our gallery.
The Top 100 pictures and winners will be selected in January 2025. Check out last year’s winners here, and find the competition website here.
And of course there’s more where that came from. Feed your micro photography fix with the winning entries from this year’s Nikon Small World competition that were announced earlier this month.
Aloys Pichard – Deadly Amplexus
Brian Skjerven – Hooded Nudies
Jay Birmingham – Demoiselles at Dawn
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View gallery of all 19 images
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