The Close-Up Photography Awards, which celebrate and showcase close-up, macro and micro photography, have just announced their winners and finalists.

The overall award for Close-up Photographer of the Year was won by French photographer Galice Hoarau for his image of a larʋa eel, captured off LemƄeh Island, Indonesia. Other impressive winners include spiders, geckos, flowers and other gorgeous shots.

The competition was made up of seven categories: Animals, Insects, Plants and Fungi, Intimate Landscape, Manadic World, Young (for creatures under 17 years old) and Micro (for photographs taken with a microscope).

The 100 winners were chosen from more than 6,000 entries coming from 52 countries around the world. Scroll down to see the selection of the best shots and let us know what you think of them in the comments section!

1. Finalist | animals

2. Overall Winner & animal winner

Before Larʋa

3. Winner | Young

4. 3rd place winner | animals

Bufo Bufo

5. Winner | Micro

glassware

6. 3rd place winner | Young

butterflies in the light

7. Finalist | animals

8. Finalist | Plants & fungi

9. 2nd place winner | Plants & fungi

10. Finalist | insects

11. Finalist | insects

12. Finalist | insects

13. Finalist | animals

14. Winner | insects

15. Finalist | insects

16. 3rd place winner | Plants & fungi

Dancer

17. Finalist | Plants & fungi

18. Winner | Plants & fungi

Mandala with Miniature Tulips

19. Finalist | Micro

20. 2nd place winner | Intimate Landscape

The bullet

21. 3rd place winner | insects

The signal

22. 3rd place winner | Intimate Landscape

ice landscape

23. Finalist | insects

24. Finalist | Plants & fungi

25. Finalist | Plants & fungi

26. Finalist | insects

27. 2nd place winner | animals

28. Finalist | insects

29. Finalist | Plants & fungi

30. Finalist | Plants & fungi