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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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Underwater snow, Culebra by Abimael Márquez
Underwater snow, Culebra
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Clown frogfish ... Dauin by Daniel Strub
Clown frogfish ... Dauin
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Just for the contrast Fuji S5 pro/105 VR by Yves Antoniazzo
Just for the contrast Fuji S5 pro/105 VR
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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golden Mantis shrimp; Lembeh; D200 by Thomas Lueken
golden Mantis shrimp; Lembeh; D200
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Taken aboard the Utila Aggressor November 2009 with an Ol... by Charlie Foreman
Taken aboard the Utila Aggressor November 2009 with an Olympus in a Lights and Motion housing.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Triated Frogfish, with breathing, to give birth, Aguadill... by Abimael Márquez
Triated Frogfish, with breathing, to give birth, Aguadilla, P.R.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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A scorpionfish shotted with "moved effect" no PS. by Alberto Romeo
A scorpionfish shotted with "moved effect" no PS.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Juv. a. pictus - small but soooooo colorfull :-D - Thanks... by Daniel Strub
Juv. a. pictus - small but soooooo colorfull big grin - Thanks B-Bhing
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Goby on a gorgonia, f. 22 - 1/100 by Daniel Strub
Goby on a gorgonia, f. 22 - 1/100
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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Art of Nature. I like the patterns you find in the open ... by Christian Nielsen
Art of Nature.
I like the patterns you find in the open Giant Clams.
This photo is taken around the lovely divesites of Nusa Penida.
Olympus E330, 35mm Macro, 2 Ikelite DS125 Strobes.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Orange Ball Corallimorph, commonly known as a Orangeball ... by Rene Oude Avenhuis
Orange Ball Corallimorph, commonly known as a Orangeball Anamone, picture shot during nightdive in 10ft of water, with a Canon S60 powershot
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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Durban shrimps dance around Moray by Aleksandr Marinicev
Durban shrimps dance around Moray
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Skittish little things! by Pete Devereux
Skittish little things!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Coral Rock Cod getting some cleaning done. by Charles Wright
Coral Rock Cod getting some cleaning done.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Juvenile ribbon eel. by Charles Wright
Juvenile ribbon eel.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Indonesia
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In the middle of its transformation..... by Bernard Maglana
In the middle of its transformation.....
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Coral and Fish by Fatih Sökmen
Coral and Fish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Coral trout on the Great Barrier Reef, single strobe port... by Michael Gallagher
Coral trout on the Great Barrier Reef, single strobe portrait
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Tasseled scorpionfish by J. Daniel Horovatin
Tasseled scorpionfish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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playing with dept of field and light ... f.4.0 1/60 by Daniel Strub
playing with dept of field and light ... f.4.0 1/60
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Baby, Aguadilla by Abimael Márquez
Baby, Aguadilla
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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octopus vulgaris.Olympus c-7070 and Ys-60 strob by Carlos Ernesto
octopus vulgaris.Olympus c-7070 and Ys-60 strob
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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A bluespotted coral grouper behind a red gorgonian by Alberto Romeo
A bluespotted coral grouper behind a red gorgonian
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Nice smile ! by Raoul Caprez
Nice smile !
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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This should be an old one....lol! by Bernard Maglana
This should be an old one....lol!
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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A very small juvenile Frogfish from Anilao, Philippines. by Chad Ordelheide
A very small juvenile Frogfish from Anilao, Philippines.
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This ghost pipefish is brooding eggs in his pouch. Tulam... by Tammy Gibbs
This ghost pipefish is brooding eggs in his pouch. Tulamben, Bali.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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