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  "path": "/2026/02/05/close-up-photographer-of-the-year-7/",
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  "textContent": "\n\nAustralian photographer Ross Gudgeon has won the grand prize at Close-up Photographer of the Year 7 for Fractal Forest, an extraordinary underwater image photographed inside a cauliflower soft coral in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. The image earned Gudgeon the competition’s top award and a £2,500 ($3,400) prize.\n\n[Read More]",
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