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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Close-Up

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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame
2/202012 Night Dive: Sand Diver in business as usual, dep... by Carlos Rodriguez
2/202012 Night Dive: Sand Diver in business as usual, depth 28 feet.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Lionfish by Stéphane Primatesta
Lionfish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Common Christmas Tree Worn shot with a home made "snoot" ... by Larry Polster
Common Christmas Tree Worn shot with a home made "snoot" with 1" diameter opening for the strobe light on subject. D300-60mm, DS-160
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Virgin Islands U.S.
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Seaweed Blenny on peach colored sponge and yellow hydroid... by Suzan Meldonian
Seaweed Blenny on peach colored sponge and yellow hydroid bulbs
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Hawaiian Day Octopus by Marty Wakat
Hawaiian Day Octopus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Hawaiian Day Octopus by Marty Wakat
Hawaiian Day Octopus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Seahorse Northeast Coast Taiwan by Mickle Huang
Seahorse
Northeast Coast Taiwan
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: East China Sea Taiwan
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hippocampus by Walter Bassi
hippocampus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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Baby Moray hiding in the coral by Stephan Attwood
Baby Moray hiding in the coral
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Taken at Phil Foster Park under the Blue Heron Bridge in ... by David Long
Taken at Phil Foster Park under the Blue Heron Bridge in West Palm Beach, Florida
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic United States
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Seahorse by Abimael Márquez
Seahorse
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33 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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trying to square the circle with this ascidians choir by Mathieu Foulquié
trying to square the circle with this ascidians choir
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One of the very few cases where a square crop works. The fisheye-lens effect boosts the composition as well. Sometimes, the simpliest things can become the greatest models :-)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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Snapping shrimp - true it snapped me! Alpheus sp. by Bill Van Eyk
Snapping shrimp - true it snapped me! Alpheus sp.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Australia
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Arrow crab shot in Cozamel on Palancar Bricks. Shot using... by Stephan Attwood
Arrow crab shot in Cozamel on Palancar Bricks. Shot using a Fujifilm EXR 16 Mega CMOS and an Intova 4000 flash.
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date posted posted: Monday, February 20, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Ctenophora. by Ferdinando Meli
Ctenophora.
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date posted posted: Monday, February 20, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Hermite crab Dardanus calidus, night dive, 50 mm macro le... by Antonio Colacino
Hermite crab Dardanus calidus, night dive, 50 mm macro lens, 20 cm from the subject-Canon eos 350d-two strobes ikelite DS125-Focusing light 25 leds from illunaluce.
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date posted posted: Monday, February 20, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Looking closely at trumpetfish by Abimael Márquez
Looking closely at trumpetfish
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date posted posted: Monday, February 20, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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immobile by Salvatore Ianniello
immobile
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Spiny Flounder on the sandy bottom at 25ft deep in Crash ... by Carlos Rodriguez
Spiny Flounder on the sandy bottom at 25ft deep in Crash Boat, Aguadilla, P.R.
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Hawkfish by Paul Colley
Hawkfish
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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lighting eyes by Marco Chang
lighting eyes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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This has already been entered...but I was wondering if an... by Jackie Campbell
This has already been entered...but I was wondering if anyone can ID the type of crab please.
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Taken on Vetchies Pier - Durban's "Muck Diving" mecca....... by Bryan Hart
Taken on Vetchies Pier - Durban's "Muck Diving" mecca....
It must be dived on high tide and at mid day to take advantage of ambient light.
Lots of sediment in the water so very light use of the strobe is recomended ! more to come from this place!
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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The sun reveals the trumpet fish eating a small fish. by Abimael Márquez
The sun reveals the trumpet fish eating a small fish.
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Phantom by Jacopo Brunetti
Phantom
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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Weedy ScorpionFish by William Loke
Weedy ScorpionFish
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Portrait Shot - Rhinopias frondosa by William Loke
Portrait Shot - Rhinopias frondosa
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 19, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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