Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition and the Opportunity to Win Valuable Prizes

The fourth Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) is inviting photographers from all over the world to participate with their photographs, in the 11 categories available: Animals, Insects, Butterflies & Dragonflies, Invertebrate Portrait, Underwater, Plants, Fungi, Intimate Landscape, Manmade, Micro and Young.

• Overall winner: £2,500, a trophy and a digital certificate and badge.
• Category winners: £250, and a digital certificate and badge
• Young CUPOTY winner: SIGMA LENS, 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO | Art worth £700 + USB Dock, Trophy, and Digital certificate and badge. 

• Anyone can enter, from any country, using any type of camera, mobile phone or light microscope.
• close-ups, wideangle shots, portraits of larger animals as well as traditional macro and images made with a microscope or objective are all welcomed.
• Images can be spread across the categories and the same image can be entered into more than one category. (Every time a picture is entered into a category it counts as one entry.)
• Entry fees for each category: £10 for one picture in one category, £20 for 6 pictures across all categories, £30 for 15 pictures across all categories, £40 for 30 pictures across all categories, £5 for 15 pictures in Young CUPOTY.

Photograph requirements:

• 1920px or less along the longest edge.
• 300dpi.
• in the sRGB color space.
• without watermarks, borders or signatures.

About CUPOTY:

Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) is an annual competition for photographers from all over the world, using any type of camera, mobile phone or light microscope. The competition awards many valuable prizes for winners.