Close-up Photographer of the Year is an international photography competition dedicated to revealing the hidden wonder of the world through macro, micro and close-up imagery. The seventh edition of the competition attracted over 12,000 entries from 63 countries. This year’s winning images span 11 categories, with subjects ranging from frog spawn resembling a galaxy and a ghost-like swarm of mayflies approaching a Hungarian town, to an ice-covered tree in Nagano and a fantastical landscape created by oxidising a copper plate with household materials.