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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
False plum sea anemone on a red sponge
Puffer fish in the red sea.
Red Horse
Red Horse
shortlistedShortlisted!
to close
shortlistedShortlisted!
Hidden Beauty
Portrait Blenny with Marelux SOFT
shortlistedShortlisted!
Red Knight
Sometimes worms can be beautiful too!_2022
(Canon100,1/250,f20,iso200)
Stripped cardinal fish
Juvenile Threefin Blenny - Tripterygion melanurus
sharp eye
Enjoying the spotlight
Shades of Orange
Ascidian amongst sponge
Upside-down Jellyfish - Cassiopea andromeda
shortlistedShortlisted!
A thorny beauty
Cape Urchins can also be beautiful
Portrait Coconut Octopus with Retra LSD
Upside-down Jellyfish - Cassiopea andromeda
shortlistedShortlisted!
Hermit crab spotted on a yellow sponge coral in Croatia.
Only when I looked at it later did I notice the animal's blue eyes...
Harlequin Shrimp
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2022

Final RoundThrough to 2022 awards final round judging
Anemone hermit crab (Dardanus pedunculatus)
shortlistedShortlisted!
Yellow pins
An amphipod riding on a donut nudi’s nose
3rd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Olympus EM1X
Anilao, blackwater dive.
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Olympus EM1x
3rd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
worm
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