CUPOTY CHALLENGE: Something Beautiful

Welcome to the fifth CUPOTY CHALLENGE – a themed contest running alongside the annual competition of Close-up Photographer of the Year.

The CUPOTY CHALLENGE is supported by Affinity Photo.

Once again we asked our community to vote on the theme and the result couldn’t have been closer. Something Beautiful came out on top by a single vote!

The results were:

• 197 – Something Beautiful

• 196 – Death & Decay

• 124 – Two Colour Frame

To fit the theme we're looking for photographs of subjects that you think are beautiful, that have made you marvel and that you want to share with others. A living thing, a place, an object, a creation or a moment that conveys beauty or is made beautiful by the way you have photographed it.

The winner receives a £300 cash prize.

A selection of images will be part of a feature in Amateur Photographer magazine and all the shortlisted and Finalist pictures will get showcased on our website.

Pictures can be of absolutely any subject using any device (camera, phone, scanner or microscope) but they must be a close-up, macro or micro photograph. No AI generated images are allowed.

Photographs that have been entered into any CUPOTY competition before may be entered again so long as they have not made the Top 100 winners gallery or the winners gallery of previous challenges. 

The closing date to register for the CUPOTY CHALLENGE is Saturday 30th November and you will need to send us your pictures by 7th December.

Who can enter?

• Anyone, of any age, living in any country can enter.

• Photographs can be captured with any type of camera, phone, scanner or microscope.

• You may enter images that have already been entered into any other CUPOTY contest as long as they have not made The Top 100 winners galleries or the previous Challenge winners gallery.

Prizes

• The winner receives £300 cash and will be featured in Amateur Photographer magazine.

• A selection of the finalists pictures will be featured in Amateur Photographer magazine.

• The winner and finalist pictures will be displayed in our online winners gallery and will be included in any book or exhibition of CUPOTY.

• All shortlisted entrants will be showcased in the shortlist gallery on our website for one year.

• The winner and finalists will receive a digital badge and certificate, while the shortlisted entrants will receive a digital badge.

• International exposure in other publications and websites.

Entry fee

• £11 to enter 1 picture

• £16 to enter 3 pictures

Rules

• Read the rules

FAQs

• Read the CHALLENGE FAQs

Preparing your pictures

• How to prepare your pictures for the CHALLENGE

See the previous CHALLENGE winners

1. One Colour Frame

2. Two of a Kind

3. Minimal

4. Water

Closing date

• Saturday 30th November at 23:59 GMT