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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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Snake Eel, Backlighting. by Abimael Márquez
Snake Eel, Backlighting.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Stinging Cauliflower by Abimael Márquez
Stinging Cauliflower
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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did not make it! by Eduardo Nadal
did not make it!
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: United States
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in front of a mirror by Eduardo Nadal
in front of a mirror
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: United States
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Mosshead Warbonnet Seattle, WA, U.S.A. by Tom Radio
Mosshead Warbonnet
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Universe by Nadya Kulagina
Universe
Runner Up Monthly HotShots

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Editor's Comment
Looks like an Alien, E.T, love this shot.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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White Eyed Morey, Portrait by Marco Fierli
White Eyed Morey, Portrait
shortlistedShortlisted!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Jumpy anemone shrimp, in all its grace by Samantha Buonvino
Jumpy anemone shrimp, in all its grace
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Black snapper Come in !! Bunaken islands, Sulawesi, by Hans-Gert Broeder
Black snapper
Come in !!
Bunaken islands, Sulawesi,
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 21, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Spotted cleaner shrimp by J. Daniel Horovatin
Spotted cleaner shrimp
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Broad Band Eel Under the tank @ Front Porch Bonaire by John Roach
Broad Band Eel Under the tank @ Front Porch Bonaire
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Just love these guys! Lettuce sea slug. by John Roach
Just love these guys! Lettuce sea slug.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Slim slow slider. Flatworm - Pseudobiceros sp. Mae Haad, ... by Stefan Follows
Slim slow slider. Flatworm - Pseudobiceros sp. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f8-iso200-Inon D2000
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Thailand
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That mane by Salvatore Ianniello
That mane
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2014 awards final round judging
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Upload\UP\Competition\100613.jpg (missing image)
Hey :-)
Lionfish w/cleaner shrimp-Saipan Grotto by Martin Dalsaso
Lionfish w/cleaner shrimp-Saipan Grotto
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Northern Mariana Islands
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It was night dive and around 14mt . I took this photo wit... by Hakan Basar
It was night dive and around 14mt . I took this photo with D800E, 105mm&subsee+10 diopter and 2xds161 ikelite strobe via TTL mode .
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 19, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Juvenile striped eel catfishes in the Bay by Olivier Notz
Juvenile striped eel catfishes in the Bay
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 19, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Juvenile striped eel catsfishes in the Bay by Olivier Notz
Juvenile striped eel catsfishes in the Bay
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 19, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Gangga Island , Galathea Nikon D800E, 105 macro, two strobo by Marchione Giacomo
Gangga Island , Galathea
Nikon D800E, 105 macro, two strobo
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30 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 19, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Smoothhead Sculpin Seattle, WA, U.S.A. by Tom Radio
Smoothhead Sculpin
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 18, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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found in Sipalay by Thomas Lueken
found in Sipalay
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 18, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Chimerical frogfish by Dmitry Starostenkov
Chimerical frogfish
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 18, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Toad in the Lake of Lucerne Every year in April, toads a... by Olivier Notz
Toad in the Lake of Lucerne
Every year in April, toads are coming to the lake of Lucerne, to reproduce
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 17, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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I N V I S I B L E Juvenile-Hairy frogfish (Striated frog... by Irwin Ang
I N V I S I B L E
Juvenile-Hairy frogfish (Striated frogfish)
Anilao, Philippines. February 2014
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 17, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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I think this red frogfish was telling the photographer to... by J. Daniel Horovatin
I think this red frogfish was telling the photographer to move on.
shortlistedShortlisted!
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Pigmy was Taken at Raja Ampat Cape Kri dive spot by Melriansyah Df
Pigmy was Taken at Raja Ampat Cape Kri dive spot
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arafura Sea Indonesia
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