Seeing the World Up Shut

November 5, 2025

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A flying fox, photographed face-on, wings out, flying through a splash of water — © Douglas Gimesy / cupoty.com

Splash. Shortlisted within the Animals class. A gray-headed flying fox makes a high-speed belly-dip in a pool of water.

A green-shaded bee clings to a leaf. — © Clay Bolt / cupoty.com

Orchid Bee Colombia. Bugs.

A beetle opens its wings while clinging to stalks of wheat in a field. — © Marek Pál / cupoty.com

Sharp Bend. Bugs.

A frog, its front half poking through a small hole in a wall — © Roman Willi / cupoty.com

Frog within the wall. Animals.

A very close view of a single rose thorn — © Donald Bolak / cupoty.com

Rose Thorns. Crops. A macro shot of a single rose thorn.

A spider hangs beneath a spiderweb with many of its strands weighed down by dewdrops. — © Nataliia Shinkevich / cupoty.com

Dawn. Arachnids.

A close view of a hare, wet from rain, its ears down — © Jacqueline Kirk / cupoty.com

Island Hare. Animals. A hare, seen on a moist day at Havergate Island Nature Reserve in Suffolk, England.

A cloud of mayflies swarm around a streetlight at night. — © Imre Potyo / cupoty.com

Gentle Entice. Bugs.

A close view of the head of a praying mantis — © Jason McCombe / cupoty.com

Lichen Mantis. Invertebrate Portrait.

Clusters of ice cling to the tips of small tree branches that dip into flowing water. — © Hitomi Seki / cupoty.com

Crystalline Purity. Intimate Panorama.

A spider-like mite clings to an appendage of a slime mold. — © Barry Webb / cupoty.com

Mite Feeding on Slime Mildew. Arachnids.

A chrysalis held in a basket-like weave of sticks on a leaf. — © Minghui Yuan / cupoty.com

House on the Leaves. Butterflies & Dragonflies.

A cormorant tosses a spiky fish into the air to swallow it more easily. — © Turgay Uzer / cupoty.com

The Decisive Second. Animals. This cormorant tossed this fish within the air for over an hour to get it set in the suitable orientation to swallow.

A close view of a bee's head, its entire body coated in water droplets. — © Andrei Chetronie / cupoty.com

Leafcutter Bee. Invertebrate Portrait.

A spider holds a web in its legs, preparing to use it as a net to catch prey. — © Darcy Santos / cupoty.com

Nocturnal Huntress. Arachnids.

Two small insects feed on a shiny bit of slime mold. — © Pavel Krásenský / cupoty.com

Hungry Springtails. Bugs.

A tree's reflection, seen in a small puddle on exposed striped rock — © Csaba Daroczi / cupoty.com

After the Rain. Intimate Panorama.

A small fly, stuck on one of two carnivorous plants with sticky blobs on tiny stalks — © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas / cupoty.com

It’s a Entice! Crops.

A yellow-and-purple flower-imitating spider, seen close-up — © Laurent Hesemans / cupoty.com

In Bloom. Arachnids.

To see your complete assortment of this yr’s shortlisted photographs, be sure you go to the Shut-Up Photographer of the 12 months web site.

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