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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
Scorpionfish
Red Sea anemonefish
Hoplophrys oatesi
Fuji point and shoot, hard coral and polyps
Hinge-back shrimp. Tulamben, Bali
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keeping it simple is difficult!
Macro of octopus
fire coral&Half-and-half chromis
Morena Verde in Cabo Pulmo, BCS, Mexico
Seastar on night dive - Saudi Arabia - Canon S90 with hand torch light
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nice abstract crop - with texture added by side lighting
North cyprus 2009
octopus looking ,taken with d700 nikon and 105 nikon lens
A beautiful Palinurus elephas.
Face to Face with this big and I guess very old and very friendly Perch... Que du bonheur... :O)...
A beautiful Caddis fly, sedge (Phryganea grandis Linnaeus 1758). Picture taken in the lake of Neuchâtel. C'est que du bonheur... que je te dis nom di blou... :O)...
Gobius taken with a anikon D700 camera ,105 nikon lens
Soft coral. Point and Shoot Fuji
Naxioides cf. taurus
Probably one of the most Harlequin shrimps captured on picture. Dive sport: Seraya Secrects, Bali.
Lembeh - North Sulawesi
North Cyprus
Hello nosey ! (Sargocentron hastatus)
oh no... (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus) by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
oh no... (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus)
neopetrolisthes oshimai
Clown fish in neon anenome........
Canon ixus 980, single inon d2000 strobe.
A very curious one (Murenae melanotis). On this picture it looks like an owl :-)
Flat worm
Jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata)
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