Welcome to The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 5 (2023), supported by Affinity Photo 2. These pictures were selected by our jury from almost 12,000 pictures sent in from 67 countries.
Animals
Close-up Photographer of the Year 5
Overall winner & Animals winner
Csaba Daróczi | The Bird of the Forest
2nd place | Animals
Victor Tyakht | Dune Wrestling
3rd place | Animals
David Joseph | Natural Architecture
Finalists | Animals
Insects
Winner
René Krekels | Wood Ants Firing Acid Secretion
2nd place
Barry Webb | Mosquito Egg Raft
3rd place
Liang Fu | Circular Trenching Behavior by a Leaf Beetle
Finalists | Insects
Butterflies & Dragonflies
Winner
Csaba Daróczi | The Wedding Guest
2nd Place
Steve Russell | Letting Go
3rd Place
Wim Vooijs | Sunrise Beauty
Finalists | Butterflies & Dragonflies
Invertebrate Portrait
Winner
Tibor Molnar | Jumping Stick
2nd place
Manfred Auer | Orange Isopod
3rd place
Lior Berman | Dancing Sands, Violin Crab
Finalists | Invertebrate Portrait
Underwater
Winner
Simon Theuma | Dreamtime
2nd place
Liang Fu | Heart of the Sea
3rd place
Chris Gug | Pinkaboo
Finalists | Underwater
Intimate Landscape
Winner
Csaba Daróczi | Undertow
2nd place
Piet Haaksma | Ice Fossiel
3rd place
Jack Krohn | The Sorcerors Apprentice
Finalists | Intimate Landscape
Plants
Winner
Ria Bloemendaal | Reflexion
2nd Place
Wim Vooijs | Tears in my Eyes
3rd Place
Beth DeBor | Golden Agave
Finalists | Plants
Fungi & Slime Moulds
Winner
Barry Webb | The Ice Crown
2nd place
Jay Birmingham | Autumn Emergence
3rd place
Sophia Spurgin | Fungi and Fairy Dust
Finalists | Fungi & Slime Moulds
Human Made
Winner
Elizabeth Kazda | Asymmetrical Threads
2nd place
Paul Gravett | Colour Study 51
3rd place
Jack Margerison | Ferro Field
Finalists | Human Made
Micro
Winner
Gerhard Vlcek | Beach Grass
2nd place
Håkan Kvarnström | Amoeba
3rd place
Harald Cederlund | Twisted Dandelion
Finalists | Micro
Young
(Under 18s)
Young Close-up Photographer of the Year 5
Carlos Pérez Naval | Small Wanders
(17 years old)
2nd place
Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas | Comatricha Nigra
(16 years old)
3rd place
Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas | Dicyrtomina Ornata
(16 years old)
