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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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Scorpaena scrofa & Paramuricea clavata, night dive by Marco Gargiulo
Scorpaena scrofa & Paramuricea clavata, night dive
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 12, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Nuddy party by Carlos Ernesto
Nuddy party
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 12, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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A close encounter with a lion...!!! by Ramon Magana
A close encounter with a lion...!!!
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 11, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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backing into his anenome home by Alan Johnson
backing into his anenome home
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Indonesia
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sea cucumber crab by Diego Tan
sea cucumber crab
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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I see you by Abimael Márquez
I see you
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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CROC FISH ON THISTLEGROM by Gordon Allison
CROC FISH ON THISTLEGROM
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Orange ball corallimorph Fuji Velvia Nikonos V Ocean Op... by Arun Madisetti
Orange ball corallimorph
Fuji Velvia
Nikonos V Ocean Optics Ext tube
taken in or around 1994
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Metridium in Puget Sound Taken in 2000 Fuji Velvia, N... by Arun Madisetti
Metridium in Puget Sound
Taken in 2000
Fuji Velvia, Nikonos V
Ocean Optics extn tubes
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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nudy by Oki Karyadi
nudy
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Very Little but Pretty ! Very difficult shot, because ve... by Nadia Chiesi
Very Little but Pretty !
Very difficult shot, because very very little , and with my canon G12 and 2 macro lens ( + 6 and +8 ) is very crazy the exactly maf!
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Scorpaena scrofa, night dive, portrait by Marco Gargiulo
Scorpaena scrofa, night dive, portrait
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Frogfish, snoot test. by Abimael Márquez
Frogfish, snoot test.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Devil scorpionfishes fighting by Laura Dinraths
Devil scorpionfishes fighting
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Am I getting the light? by Ellen Cuylaerts
Am I getting the light?
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date posted posted: Monday, July 8, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Sand Snake, Cozumel Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Sand Snake, Cozumel Mexico
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 8, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Trevally! by Laura Dinraths
Trevally!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 8, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Bispira volutacornis by Carlos Ernesto
Bispira volutacornis
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 8, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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HOW SMALL WINGS by Afflitti Gianluca
HOW SMALL WINGS
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 8, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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Curious - this image of a Blennie is taken in the medite... by Uwe Schmolke
Curious -
this image of a Blennie is taken in the mediterranean sea.
Have fun watching.
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30 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 7, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Croatia
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Gobius niger with annelid in mouth by Alberto Gallucci
Gobius niger with annelid in mouth
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Final RoundThrough to 2013 awards final round judging
39 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 7, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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"The dentist" by Walter Bassi
"The dentist"
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 7, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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Grey peppered moray making for the camera by Laura Dinraths
Grey peppered moray making for the camera
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 7, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Pipehorse. Shot with an Olympus SP 350 with 2 stacked In... by Michelle Davis
Pipehorse. Shot with an Olympus SP 350 with 2 stacked Inon close up lenses
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Eyeing Colors. A diver with a close-up encounter of a Spa... by Douglas Klug
Eyeing Colors. A diver with a close-up encounter of a Spanish Shawl nudibranch. Shot with Canon Digital Rebel T4i with 100mm f/2.8 macro in Ikelite Housing and using dual DS51 strobes.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Amphipoda on anemone by Bjørnar Nygård
Amphipoda on anemone
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Norwegian Sea Norway
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Striated Hairy Frogfish Under the Bridge by John Roach
Striated Hairy Frogfish Under the Bridge
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 6, 2013
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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