Close-Up Photographer Of The Year: 20 Stunning Winning Images

Bufo Bufo, common toad, Hérault, Occitanie, France: Third Place Animals category. PHOTO: MATHIEU FOULQUIÉ - CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
‘This common toad (Bufo bufo) took a liking to me, probably because I looked like a frogman myself,” the photographer jokes. “He didn’t stop following me during my two-hour dive in the Buèges karst spring (Hérault, Occitanie, France), so he became the perfect model.”