Close Up Photographer of the Year 2023 – in pictures

January 6, 2023 ART

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Close Up Photographer of the Year 2023 – in pictures

 A porcelain crab on an anemone in the Philippines. Photograph: Andrey Savin

Attracting more than 9,000 entries from 53 countries, the annual celebration of close up photography was won by a poignant shot of salamanders being devoured by a pitcher plant, by Canadian photographer Samantha Stephens. Here is a selection of the best entries to the CUPOTY

  • The overall prize went to this shot of two spotted salamanders being consumed by a northern pitcher plant in Algonquin provincial park, Canada

    Photograph: Samantha Stephens

    Two spotted salamanders look like tiny aliens in silhouette, being consumed by a veiny, exotic northern pitcher plant

  • A beautiful raft spider shot from underwater in the Gemenc forest in Hungary, the largest floodplain forest in central Europe

    Photograph: Boldizsár Szűcs

    A beautiful raft spider shot from underwater in the Gemenc forest in Hungary, the largest floodplain forest in central Europe

  • A detailed shot of the wing of a damselfly seen in the New Forest in the United Kingdom, by the winner of the young photographer award

    Photograph: Nathan Benstead

    Blue veins like tiny ladders across the black wing of a damselfly, speckled with water drops in extreme close-up

  • A female jumping spider photographed on scorching hot rocks on Mjältön, Sweden

    Photograph: Gustave Parenmark

    A female jumping spider, with tan, black and white fur, and iridescent eyes, on a yellow background

  • A huge atlas moth, with a wingspan of more than 9in, photographed on an areca nut plantation in Sirsi, India

    Photograph: Uday Hegde

    A huge Atlas moth, with a wingspan of over 9in, glowing red, orange and black, looking psychedelic against dark foliage

  • Shot with a macro lens, this captures the moment that two drops of oil merge

    Photograph: Matt Vacca

    Turquoise and white bubbles, very smooth and artificial-looking

  • A scarlet waxcap frosted in morning dew and spiderwebs, captured at Ebernoe cricket pitch in West Sussex

    Photograph: Jeremy Lintott

    A scarlet waxcap, orangey-pink, its frills emerging from a white, dewy web

  • A sea fan on the island of Aruba, dipped in seawater creating tiny seawater lenses

    Photograph: Angelo Richardson

    A sea fan on the island of Aruba, dipped in seawater creating tiny seawater lenses

  • A green cat spider guarding its nest of tiny offspring in the mountains of central Taiwan

    Photograph: Lung Tsai Wang

    A delicate green-and-gold spider has woven rungs between two stalks of grass - tiny spiders hang on them like stars

  • A snake digging itself in the sand to ambush its prey, next to tracks left by a dune gecko in the Negev desert in Israel

    Photograph: Paul Lennart Schmid

    A snake digging itself in reddish sand to ambush its prey, next to tracks left by a dune gecko

  • A mimic octopus in larval form, shot in complete darkness 300ft below the surface of the ocean at Anilao in the Philippines

    Photograph: Pietro Cremone

    The larval mimic octopus is a glowing blue silhouette against dark water, with a huge transparent sax and coiling legs underneath

  • A schistidium moss, with intricate capsules shaped like tiny flowers. It is only 1mm wide and thrives on rocks or concrete. This one was photographed in Ulleråker, Sweden

    Photograph: Harald Cederlund

    The moss has a star-shaped flower, red and yellow

  • Starlings feasting on crumbs from pizza and doner kebabs at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany

    Photograph: Anton Trexler

    Starlings feasting on crumbs from pizza and doner kebabs at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany

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