October 15, 2021
From a plague of moths to the beauty of bubbles: The winners of the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition
Everyone knows the annoyance of a moth flapping around a lampshade, but imagine the horror of this swarm of flying irritants. Pål Hermansen photographed this collection at his home in Norway and it has earned him the accolade of overall winner of Close-up Photographer of the Year.
This year's contest had more than 9,000 entries from 56 countries, in categories of animals, insects, plants & fungi, intimate landscape, underwater, butterflies & insects, manmade and micro.
You can click through to see some of the best entries here.
Pål said: "In the autumn of 2020, I discovered that one of the lamps on my house in Norway had a defect and had acted as a light trap for insects. I emptied the lamp and spread the contents onto a large light-table I had left over from my slide days."
