{"id":236770,"date":"2025-10-31T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236770\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:06:23","slug":"photo-competition-that-gets-up-close-and-personal-with-wildlife-announces-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236770\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Competition That Gets Up Close and Personal With Wildlife Announces Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>\u2018In the Forest of Mordor\u2019 by Vincze Balint. Animals category. <\/p>\n

The shortlist for Close-up Photographer of the Year 7 (2025) has been revealed after the 22 judges assessed 12,557 photographs across 11 categories during 20 hours of Zoom calls. <\/p>\n

The categories are as follows: Animals, Insects, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Arachnids, Invertebrate Portrait, Underwater, Intimate Landscape, Plants, Fungi, Studio Art, and Young (U18s). <\/p>\n

The top prize will be \u00a32,500 ($3,277), a trophy, and a copy of Topaz Labs AI 4. Each category winner will take home \u00a3250 in cash and a Universal License for all three Affinity apps (Photo, Designer + Publisher) for macOS, Windows & iPad OS. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>\u2018Splash\u2019 by Douglas Gimesy. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Le Projectionniste\u2019 by Nicolas Reytet. Insects category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Sharp Bend\u2019 by Mark Pal. Insects category.
\n \"Hundreds<\/a>\u2018Light Trap\u2019 by Imre Potyo. Insects category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Bearded Ghost\u2019 by Imre Potyo. Fungi and Slime Moulds category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Weevil\u2019s End\u2019 by Rafael Steinlesberger. Fungi and Slime Moulds category. \"Five<\/a>\u2018Flight\u2019 by Pal Hermansen. Butterflies and Dragonflies category. \"A<\/a>\u2018S\u2019 by Mark Pal. Butterflies and Dragonflies category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Xanthocnemis Zealandica\u2019 by Glenys Steegh. Butterflies and Dragonflies category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Nightmare on Karella Street\u2019 by William Menzies. Arachnids category.
\n \"Close-up<\/a>\u2018Magician\u2019 by Thirachet Sonakul. Arachnids category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Hungry Mite\u2019 by Pavel Krasensky. Arachnids category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Sunrise\u2019 by Natalia Shinkevich. Arachnids category. \"Close-up<\/a>\u2018Pumpkin Spice\u2019 by Justin Chan. Arachnids category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Nocturnal Huntress\u2019 by Darcy Santos. Arachnids category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Caught Between Worlds\u2019 by Ben Revell. Arachnids category. \"Close-up<\/a>\u2018Mite Feeding on Slime Mould\u2019 by Barry Webb. Arachnids category.
\n \"A<\/a>\u2018Predator\u2019 by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas. Arachnids category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Frog in the Wall\u2019 by Willi Roman. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018In the Forest of Mordor\u2019 by Vincze Balint. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018The Decisive Moment\u2019 by Turgay Uzer. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Precarious Perch\u2019 by Rafael Steislesberger. Animals category. \"Two<\/a>\u2018Whiskers\u2019 by Luca Lorenz. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Island Hare\u2019 by Jacqueline Kirk. Animals category.
\n \"A<\/a>\u2018Guided by the Whistles\u2019 by Guillaume Correa-Pimpao. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Flowered\u2019 by Frensis Kuijer. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018In Mothers Arms\u2019 by Dvir Barkay. Animals category. \"A<\/a>\u2018Bee in Flight\u2019 by Uwe Zimmerman. Insects category. \"Close-up<\/a>\u2018Leafcutter Bee\u2019 by Andrei Chetronie. Invertebrate Portrait category. <\/p>\n

The Top 100 pictures and winners will be selected in January 2026. Close-up Photographer of the Year was founded in 2018 by Tracy and Dan Calder. Head to the website<\/a> for more. Check out last year\u2019s winners here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018In the Forest of Mordor\u2019 by Vincze Balint. Animals category. The shortlist for Close-up Photographer of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,41162,100143,100144,1120,96,13342,77625,49503,56,54,55,4483],"class_list":{"0":"post-236770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-closeup","12":"tag-closeupphotographeroftheyear","13":"tag-closeupphotography","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-macrophotography","17":"tag-naturephotography","18":"tag-photocompetition","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom","22":"tag-wildlifephotography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}