“Close-up Photographer of the Year”: These are the excellent close. shots.
The competition is dedicated to micro and macro photography in eleven categories in order to show “the hidden wonders of nature” This fight between two bearded toad-headed dragons, recorded by Victor Tyakht in the Kalmyk semi-desert in Russia, took second place in the animal category. An African elephant enjoys a meal of water lilies on the Chobe River in Botswana, photographed by William Steel.