Who does n’t love to spend time in garden ? Some people have it away it so much , though , that they stake out for hours , television camera in paw , await for an worm to land on a flower petal to capture the thoroughgoing shot .

These are the kind of people who submit their picture taking to the one-year International Garden Photographer of the Year contender . This year’swinnersfor macro art hail from Germany , the United States , China , and many other countries . However , Lizzy Petereit from Bremen , Germany , takes home the first - lieu prize for her lovely lilac-colored anemone flower photo , below . bewitch in thrilling detail , the photo makes it look as if the flowers are moving .

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Photo: Lizzy Petereit

“Panta Rhei” won first place in this award category, displaying a stunning close-up shot of anemone flowers.Photo: Lizzy Petereit

“ Everything flow , ” Petereit saidin her verbal description of the trope . “ The fantastic anemone flowers from my garden are apparently in movement . They constantly change their material body and social organization . ”

The competition has hunt down for 13 year now , awarding photographers for their sensational portrayals of on the face of it mutual garden . succeeder have frozen in meter the mess of snout beetle and dragonflies . The work is n’t just about capturing insects ; it ’s about show the knockout in our backyards , the hidden contingent of a folio , the poetry encoded in a berry underframe .

All the winners have something to share . Behold , this class ’s Macro Art winners .

Photo: Richard Kubica

In second place, “Big Nose,” which features a snout beetle in Slovakia.Photo: Richard Kubica

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