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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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Octopus vulgaris by Ferdinando Meli
Octopus vulgaris
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Octopus macropus by Ferdinando Meli
Octopus macropus
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Redlip Blenny by J. Daniel Horovatin
Redlip Blenny
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Banded Coral Shrimp by J. Daniel Horovatin
Banded Coral Shrimp
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Nemo & the anemone by Jonathan Sala
Nemo & the anemone
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Crocodile Fish by Jonathan Sala
Crocodile Fish
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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What are you looking at?? by Els Van Den Borre
What are you looking at??
shortlistedShortlisted!
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Porcelain crab with eggs by Pietro Cremone
Porcelain crab with eggs
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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pink skunk clownfishes in leather anemone by Chris Krambeck
pink skunk clownfishes
in leather anemone
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Blackbar Soldierfish checking out diver, or maybe just po... by J. Daniel Horovatin
Blackbar Soldierfish checking out diver, or maybe just posing for the camera.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Flamingo tongue by J. Daniel Horovatin
Flamingo tongue
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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I've got my eye on you! by David Gilchrist
I've got my eye on you!
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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"When size matters" II by Carlos Pérez
"When size matters" II
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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Nice behaviour shot, Carlos !
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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green damselfish by Chris Krambeck
green damselfish
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Tube blenny looking for a new tube home or a mouthful of ... by J. Daniel Horovatin
Tube blenny looking for a new tube home or a mouthful of microcrustaceans?
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Secretary tube blenny peering out of its wormhole by J. Daniel Horovatin
Secretary tube blenny peering out of its wormhole
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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White mouth moray. Big Island, Hawaii by Bill Arle
White mouth moray. Big Island, Hawaii
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Damsel fish hiding in acropora by Fabrice Leroy
Damsel fish hiding in acropora
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Juvenile eel catfishes (Plotosus lineatus) scouring co... by Chris Krambeck
Juvenile eel catfishes
(Plotosus lineatus)
scouring corals for prey
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 30, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Crown of Thorns. Big Island, HI. Canon G10. by Bill Arle
Crown of Thorns. Big Island, HI. Canon G10.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Timid blenny by Pietro Cremone
Timid blenny
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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I'm watching you! by Pietro Cremone
I'm watching you!
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Clown fish facing me in the Maldives by Fabrice Leroy
Clown fish facing me in the Maldives
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Wire Coral shrimp Uh oh a burp! by John Roach
Wire Coral shrimp
Uh oh a burp!
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Wire Coral shrimp by John Roach
Wire Coral shrimp
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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little rino murena by Afflitti Gianluca
little rino murena
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Asian Sea Philippines
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60mm F/16, 1/125 by Cyril Buchet
60mm F/16, 1/125
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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