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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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Cuttlefish by Tracey Jennings
Cuttlefish
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 3, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Golden eye by Shih Shun Lei
Golden eye
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 3, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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"anemone crab" on Samber Gelap, South Borneo by Fazrin Zen
"anemone crab" on Samber Gelap, South Borneo
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Squid at night, Small La Laguna, Puerto Galera by Tobias Reitmayr
Squid at night, Small La Laguna, Puerto Galera
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Peacock flounder by Tracey Jennings
Peacock flounder
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Beautiful Anemone by Helen Hansen
Beautiful Anemone
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Thailand
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An Ambon scorpionfish in Lembeh. Subsee snoot (Double). by Mehmet Salih Bilal
An Ambon scorpionfish in Lembeh. Subsee snoot (Double).
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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yellow gobi with tongue isopod, with eggs by Dymphna Overwijn
yellow gobi with tongue isopod, with eggs
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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I found this blenny on a shallow water, i was attracked ... by Steve So
I found this blenny on a shallow water, i was attracked by his funny face, try to getting a passport photo for him/her, i swam back and forth , he seemingly getting used to my camera for few seconds and got this shot finally.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Hong Kong
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It was one of the most demanding efforts to shoot this sh... by Danny Van Belle
It was one of the most demanding efforts to shoot this shot with the Inon Macro Wide angle of a Sargassum frogfish floating around in between some weed just below the surface.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Although orang-utan crabs are normally found on bubble co... by Tracey Jennings
Although orang-utan crabs are normally found on bubble coral and tulamben there is no bubble coral and instead they look like they are in the jungle
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Profile by Abimael Márquez
Profile
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 28, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Monday Morning ... ! Devil Scorpionfish - Scorpaenopsis d... by Stefan Follows
Monday Morning ... ! Devil Scorpionfish - Scorpaenopsis diabolus. Padangbai, Bali
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 28, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Head by Salvatore Ianniello
Head
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 28, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Coleman shrimp on Fire urchin, Boulders, Puerto Galera by Tobias Reitmayr
Coleman shrimp on Fire urchin, Boulders, Puerto Galera
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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~ Jet Propulsion ~ by Geo Cloete
~ Jet Propulsion ~
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (South) South Africa
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"Layers" - A sharknose goby draws the eye into the corner... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Layers" - A sharknose goby draws the eye into the corner of this underwater abstract of a brightly-colored sponge and hard corals. I sought to make a strong graphic image, the angles and black negative space as important as the layers and colors.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Dusky Jawfish on Father Duty by Jade Hoksbergen
Dusky Jawfish on Father Duty
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date posted posted: Monday, February 22, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Grays by can be quite interesting to photograph,especiall... by Patricia Sinclair
Grays by can be quite interesting to photograph,especially when they let you get close with the macro lens.
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 21, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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Amongst my favourite photographic subjects in Saint Lucia... by Jade Hoksbergen
Amongst my favourite photographic subjects in Saint Lucia is the Sailfin Blenny (Emblemaria pandionis). Only about an inch and a half long, this guy has got a lot of attitude to make up for it's size. -
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Sharpnose Puffer(Canthigaster rostrata) by David Gilchrist
Sharpnose Puffer(Canthigaster rostrata)
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Hyppolite prideauxiana female with eggs on Antedon medite... by Marco Gargiulo
Hyppolite prideauxiana female with eggs on Antedon mediterranea
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date posted posted: Friday, February 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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I don't know this fish by Aleksandr Marinicev
I don't know this fish
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Nudibranch and tunicate! by Jeff Lafrenz
Nudibranch and tunicate!
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 7, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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The mask by Walter Bassi
The mask
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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Spotted Puffer by Aleksandr Marinicev
Spotted Puffer
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Frog fish by Aleksandr Marinicev
Frog fish
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date posted posted: Monday, February 15, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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