Applications call for Close-up Photographer of the Year 2020. CUPOTY is a celebration of close-up, macro photography, and photomicrography – an annual competition created to showcase images that help us see the world anew.

The search is on to find the second winner of Close-up Photographer of the Year, in association with Affinity Photo. Photographers have until May 17th, 2020 to enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning a cash prize of £2,500. The competition 2020 is open to all nationalities.

Categories

• Insects
• Animals
• Plants & Fungi
• Intimate Landscape
• Manmade World
• Micro (for images taken with a microscope)
• Young (for entrants aged 17 or under)

Prizes 

Overall winner

• £2,500 cash prize
• Close-up Photographer of the Year trophy and title
• Digital certificate and badge
• Global media coverage

Category winner

• £300 cash prize
• Digital certificate and badge
• Global media coverage

Young Close-up Photographer of the Year (U18)

• 2x SIGMA lenses
• Young Close-up Photographer of the Year trophy and title
• Digital certificate and badge
• Global media coverage

Finalists

• Featured in The Top 100 showcase
• Digital certificate and badge
• Global media coverage

Shortlist

• Featured in the Shortlist galleries
• Digital certificate and badge
• Global media coverage

Benefits 

All entrants receive these voucher codes (subject to availability):

• 50% off Affinity Photo editing software for Mac or PC
• £100 off Greenwings Wildlife Holidays
• Up to 20% off Zerene Stacker focus-stacking software
• £10 off equipment at MPB.com when you spend over £100

Eligibilities 

• The Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) competition (‘the Competition’) is open to everyone except those working for CUPOTY (‘the Organisers’) and the Judges (including their families and relatives). Employees of sponsors who have not been directly involved in the organization of the Competition may enter.
• The Competition is open to all professional and amateur photographers of any nationality.
• All entries must be submitted in a digital format. This may be a photograph captured with a digital camera or a high-quality scan from transparency or negative.
• Entrants to the competition must be aged 18 or over on May 17th, 2020. Entrants aged 17 or under on May 17th, 2020 should enter Young CUPOTY.

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