Close-Up Photographer of the Year shortlist chosen from a record 15,388 entries

[Noel98]

The world's biggest close up and macro photography competition has revealed its shortlist. Digital Camera World reports that the eighth Close-Up Photographer of the Year received a record 15,388 entries, and 59 images across 11 categories have made the shortlist, with winners still to be announced

Joao Pontes is shortlisted in the Animals category for Suspended, shot on a Canon EOS R7 with an 8-15mm fisheye lens. Bidyut Kalita's The Weight of Survival shows a wasp paralysing a spider in Assam, India, so that it stays fresh as food for her young

Steffen Foerster's Nosepick captures a tussock bird picking at a southern elephant seal's nose on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands. David Myles is shortlisted in the Fungi category with a dewy Physarum image, and Lukas Furlan's Untitled 14 is a rotated landscape that looks like a portal

Co-founder Tracy Calder said close up photography reveals details and perspectives that often go unnoticed. The winners will be announced later

Macro photography shows us a whole world that is normally too small to see, and a record entry shows how popular the genre has become. The mix of humour, drama and abstract images in the shortlist is lovely. Nosepick sounds like a guaranteed favourite with the public

Do you enjoy macro photography? And which of these shortlisted images would you most like to see?

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