Close Up Photographer of the Year – in pictures
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First in the animals section and overall winner of the competition was this shot of an eel larva off the coast of Indonesia during a blackwater dive.
Photograph: Galice Hoarau
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Photographed during a night walk through the Kubah national park on the island of Borneo, a cat gecko, which gets its name from the way it curls up its tail to cover itself while sleeping.
Photograph: Bernhard Schubert
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Butterflies feasting on the nectar of carefully composed flowers in France.
Photograph: Emelin Dupieux
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Shot on a smartphone, an amazingly detailed microshot of a glassworm.
Photograph: Andrei Savitsky
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Oil droplets on water combine in a striking abstract image.
Photograph: Mirka van Renswoude
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A raft spider skimming across a marshy pool in search of prey in Plesheevo Lake national park, Russia.
Photograph: Svetlana Ivanenko
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A bufo bufo, or common toad, spotted swimming close to the surface at Bueges spring in Occitania, France.
Photograph: Mathieu Foulquie
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Ice crystals formed when moisture became trapped inside a faulty thermopane window.
Photograph: Edwin Giesbers
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A lava flow erupting at the feet of the photographer during a trek across the Kalapana lava field in Hawaii.
Photograph: Mark James Ford
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Water scorpions in silhouette, backlit by torches.
Photograph: Juan Gonzalez
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A pool ingeniously filled with clear water in the middle of Lake Kerniki in Greece enabled this shot of feeding pelicans.
Photograph: Bence Mate
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A spider in a swamp at the Turjanos nature reserve in Hungary.
Photograph: Csaba Daroczi
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