Welcome to The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 7 (2025). These pictures were selected anonymously by our jury of 22 experts from over 12,000 photos sent in from 63 countries.
Underwater
Close-up Photographer of the Year 7
Overall winner & Underwater winner
Ross Gudgeon | Fractal Forest
2nd place | Underwater
Daniel Sly | Ethereal Frogfish
3rd place | Underwater
Luis Arpa | Featherhome
Finalists | Underwater
Animals
Winner
Filippo Carugati | Amphibian Galaxy
2nd place
Amit Eshel | Inside the Pack
3rd place
Bence Máté | Spider Web
Finalists | Animals
Insects
Winner
Imre Potyó | Blue Army
2nd Place
Valeria Zvereva | Love Under the Stars
3rd Place
Aleksey Molchanov | Gotcha!
Finalists | Insects
Plants
Winner
Minghui Yuan | Rebirth from Destruction
2nd place
Alex Pansier | Love Poem
3rd place
Tibor Litauszki | In the Embrace of Shadows
Finalists | Plants
Fungi & Slime Moulds
Winner
Valeria Zvereva | Mushroom in the 'Nude' Style
2nd place
Barry Webb | Cribraria Cluster
3rd place
Cédric Rousseau | Twilight of the Gods
Finalists | Fungi & Slime Moulds
Butterflies & Dragonflies
Winner
Pål Hermansen | Butterfly Flash
2nd place
Pedro Luna | The Invasion
3rd place
Dmitrii Melguno | Damselfly Alphabet Calligraphy
Finalists | Butterflies & Dragonflies
Arachnids
Winner
Artur Tomaszek | Dinner
2nd Place
Guillaume Correa Pimpao | I Feel I'm Being Watched
3rd Place
Anirban Dutta | Gymnast
Finalists | Arachnids
Invertebrate Portrait
Winner
Laurent Hesemans | Good Boy
2nd place
Wayne Sayers | Thomisus Onustus on Guard
3rd place
Giovanni Vicari | Fake Sun
Finalists | Invertebrate Portrait
Intimate Landscape
Winner
Sho Hoshino | Dreamy State
2nd place
Grant Bulloch | Yacht Betsy B, Gairloch Harbour
3rd place
Mike Weinhold | Windswept
Finalists | Plants
Studio Art
Winner
Paul Kenny | Copper Works No. 25 – 2024
2nd place
Elizabeth Kazda | Cymatic Pattern
3rd place
Matt Vacca | Extended Tones #4
Finalists | Studio Art
Young
(Under 18s)
Young Close-up Photographer of the Year 7
Rithved Girish | Guardians of the Hive
(14 years old)
2nd place
Gaspard Buriez | In the Rain
(17 years old)
3rd place
Jameson Hawkins-Kimmel | Emerald Glow
(14 years old)
