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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
Shot of a notoriously difficult to photograph mouthbreede... by Aaron Gekoski
Shot of a notoriously difficult to photograph mouthbreeder, in 'mid-suck'. Malawi's mouthbreeders rear their babies in their mouths until they're fit to fend for themselves. It took me four months to get this shot!
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date posted posted: Friday, July 26, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: African Lakes Malawi
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Dendronephthya soft coral, night dive. by Alexia Dunand
Dendronephthya soft coral, night dive.
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 26, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Slender File Fish by Michelle Davis
Slender File Fish
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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dad with eggs by Walter Bassi
dad with eggs
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Black and White Chain Moray by Abimael Márquez
Black and White Chain Moray
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16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Anemone with visitors NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" ... by Thomas Bannenberg
Anemone with visitors
NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" uw housing, 105mm Macro (NIKKOR)
Settings: f11, 1/60, ISO 100
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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A perfect place to take shelter and rest - in an estuary. by Valda Fraser
A perfect place to take shelter and rest - in an estuary.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Mozambique
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Mini Jaws! These little anenome fish were nestled in thei... by Marc Damant
Mini Jaws! These little anenome fish were nestled in their homes until you got too close for a photo then they would dart out and nip your wherever they could OUCH! Little fish BIG attitiude!
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Giant Moray by Iyad Suleyman
Giant Moray
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Balloonfish at Eagle Rock, San Carlos, Sonora by Tobias Reitmayr
Balloonfish at Eagle Rock, San Carlos, Sonora
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Portrait, background slightly darkened but almost out of ... by Wolfgang Zwicknagl
Portrait, background slightly darkened but almost out of cam.
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Frogfish with eggs by Oscar Miralpeix
Frogfish with eggs
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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in the chara meadows of the Suhrer See. by Chris Krambeck
in the chara meadows
of the Suhrer See.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Germany
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Orange beauty by Oscar Miralpeix
Orange beauty
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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Tiger cowrie feeling hungry. by Valda Fraser
Tiger cowrie feeling hungry.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Cortez Angelfish, Eagle Rock, San Carlos, Sonora by Tobias Reitmayr
Cortez Angelfish, Eagle Rock, San Carlos, Sonora
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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careful look - Coral banded shrimp by Andre Philip
careful look - Coral banded shrimp
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Nikon 60mm Macro Nauticam NA_D7000 by Andrew Green
Nikon 60mm Macro Nauticam NA_D7000
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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" Resilience " we are constantly surprsied by the ability... by Marc Damant
" Resilience " we are constantly surprsied by the ability of the Ocean to deal with the human degridation of our waters. This sandal was at the bottom beside a small village and completely encrusted in coral.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Abstract of an usually colourful candy-stripe anemone. by Valda Fraser
Abstract of an usually colourful candy-stripe anemone.
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Pregnant Mediterranean seahorse. (Te la dedico WILLI, a... by Oscar Miralpeix
Pregnant Mediterranean seahorse.
(Te la dedico WILLI, amb bon rotllo eh!, Habiam si el dissabte en veiem més!!!)
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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black spotted sweetlep fish by Yakout Hegazy
black spotted sweetlep fish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Blue Parrot sleeping, Cozumel Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Blue Parrot sleeping, Cozumel Mexico
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Peekaboo by Nadya Kulagina
Peekaboo
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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porcelain crab by Marco Fierli
porcelain crab
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 22, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Tomato cod at a cleaning station. by Valda Fraser
Tomato cod at a cleaning station.
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 21, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Shrimp by Richard Shelton
Shrimp
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 21, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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