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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

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croco eye by Patrick Neumann
croco eye
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date posted posted: Monday, June 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Scorpion Fish in Bonaire by Susan Beerman
Scorpion Fish in Bonaire
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Velvet swimming crab and lunch. Taken in or around 1989... by Arun Madisetti
Velvet swimming crab and lunch.
Taken in or around 1989 at the George Site, Menai Strait. North Wales. Nikonos V, SB103,Ektachrome, OceanOptics close up lens
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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Hippocampus Guttulatus by Antonio Franco
Hippocampus Guttulatus
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Italy
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I've always liked the way goat fish use their barbels to ... by John Hill
I've always liked the way goat fish use their barbels to find prey. This one had his permanently out as if he was resting his head on them and let me come in unusually close.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Close up of a pike's tail :-D by Daniel Strub
Close up of a pike's tail big grin
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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Say Cheese!!! by Jovin Lim
Say Cheese!!!
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Cheeklined splendor wrasse. This fish was always at the s... by Olivier Notz
Cheeklined splendor wrasse. This fish was always at the same place and observed us carefully until we left his area
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Coral Grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) by Brian Mayes
Coral Grouper (Cephalopholis miniata)
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Close up of the eye of a dwarf ornate wobbegong shark - C... by Chris Carroll
Close up of the eye of a dwarf ornate wobbegong shark - Canon G9 with INON UCL 165- M67 closeup lens
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Diving off Mataking Island - blue spotted stingray - take... by Chris Carroll
Diving off Mataking Island - blue spotted stingray - taken with Canon G9 with Inon UCL 165-M67 closeup lens
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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Tazzie Jelly by Joe Daniels
Tazzie Jelly
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Lil Tomato Clown in her bublle tip anemone by Liz Daves
Lil Tomato Clown in her bublle tip anemone
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date posted posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Fiji
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Dancing clowns of the Sea: a pair of blue harlequin shrim... by Jovin Lim
Dancing clowns of the Sea: a pair of blue harlequin shrimps (Hymenocera elegans)
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date posted posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Golden eye moray by Durand Gerald
Golden eye moray
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date posted posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Guadeloupe
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Seahorse, spotted in Pomene estuary, Mozambique. by Allen Walker
Seahorse, spotted in Pomene estuary, Mozambique.
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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A batwing coral crab was out taking a stroll on the reef by Susan Beerman
A batwing coral crab was out taking a stroll on the reef
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Batfish by Jörg Menge
Batfish
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this one is subtle
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Lionfish Close/up. by Adolfo Maciocco
Lionfish Close/up.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Helloooo ! by Raoul Caprez
Helloooo !
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Close up on Eel Pleace: Masandam \ Oman by Olympus C... by Mohammed Al Hamood
Close up on Eel
Pleace: Masandam \ Oman
by Olympus C-8080 WZ
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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Harlequin ghost pipefish close-up by Jovin Lim
Harlequin ghost pipefish close-up
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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2 angels, Mona Island Nikonos RS 50 mm macro lens and 2 I... by Alan G. Miller
2 angels, Mona Island Nikonos RS 50 mm macro lens and 2 Ikelite SS-200 strobes, shot on Kodachrome 64
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Scrawled File Fish checking things out on night dive at B... by Lisa Hinderlider
Scrawled File Fish checking things out on night dive at Bari Reef.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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canon 450D by Bradley Mihelich
canon 450D
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Long Snout Sea Horse. Sea and Sea DX1G / YS110a by Kay Wilson
Long Snout Sea Horse. Sea and Sea DX1G / YS110a
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Leech Head Sheild Slug and eggs. Sea and Sea DX1G / YS110... by Kay Wilson
Leech Head Sheild Slug and eggs. Sea and Sea DX1G / YS110a strobe
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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