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title: Close Up Photographer of the Year 2021 – Shortlist
url: https://billwardphotography.co.uk/close-up-photographer-of-the-year-2021-shortlist/
date: 2022-01-09
modified: 2026-09-22
author: Bill Ward
type: post
lang: en-GB
categories: [Uncategorized]
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I was delighted to make the shortlist of [Close Up Photographer of the Year](http://www.cupoty.com) in 2021. [CUPOTY](http://www.cupoty.com) is the premier worldwide Close Up Photography competition, with a nose-bleedingly high standard, and showcases pretty much the finest close up photography that the planet has to offer.

This was my first time entering, and I was delighted to make it onto the shortlist with a couple of pics: the above shot, Flow, from the Grimersta River in Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, on a particularly dark and stormy day.

And the below shot, Fire and Brimstone, part of my [Carnival of the Grotesques](https://billwardphotography.co.uk/portfolios/carnival-of-the-grotesques/) project, a series based around close up shots of a log in our local park.