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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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Shy seahorse by Pieter Firlefyn
Shy seahorse
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Spain
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Red-knuckled mantis shrimp by Kyle Castelyn
Red-knuckled mantis shrimp
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Maldives
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Watchful Eye! Common Octopus by Kate Jonker
Watchful Eye!
Common Octopus
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 22, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Close up of Scorpion Fish taken off Rotnest island. Fish ... by Ally Smith
Close up of Scorpion Fish taken off Rotnest island. Fish sheltering from heavy swell and surge
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Anybody in there (Goby) by Aksems Kuzucu
Anybody in there
(Goby)
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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The Horror Frogfish - Antennarius maculatus Chalokl... by Stefan Follows
The Horror
Frogfish - Antennarius maculatus
Chaloklum, Thailand
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Thailand
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Simple playing around with the snooted strobe with an enl... by George Low
Simple playing around with the snooted strobe with an enlarged opening to get the effect
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The effect by the snoot is putting the seahorse in a completely new light. I like the experimental factor.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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common shrimp by Aksems Kuzucu
common shrimp
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Scharendijke, wreck "De zeehond" huge crab. by Judith Verkerk
Scharendijke, wreck "De zeehond" huge crab.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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"Beauty from The Sea" The Spotted Moray Eel, Gymnothorax... by Arif Fajar Setyawan
"Beauty from The Sea"
The Spotted Moray Eel, Gymnothorax isingteena (J.Richardson, 1845)
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 17, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Java Sea Indonesia
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Moray Eel shot during a dive at Sabang Point, Puerto Gale... by Bill Stewart
Moray Eel shot during a dive at Sabang Point, Puerto Galera, Philippines on August 25th, 2016.
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date posted posted: Friday, September 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Pike in a cave (Ruidera Lakes) by Carlos Ortolà
Pike in a cave (Ruidera Lakes)
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date posted posted: Friday, September 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Spain
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Hotlips! Hotlips spider crab, Roman Rock, Simon's Town -... by Kate Jonker
Hotlips!
Hotlips spider crab, Roman Rock, Simon's Town - South Africa
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date posted posted: Friday, September 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Home, A Place Where All Story Begin by Arif Fajar Setyawan
Home, A Place Where All Story Begin
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date posted posted: Friday, September 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Java Sea Indonesia
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Periclimenes by Carlos Ortolà
Periclimenes
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 15, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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Moorish Idol in waters of coast of Big Island Hawaii by Jill Bruno
Moorish Idol in waters of coast of Big Island Hawaii
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Cymatium neapolitanum, a beautiful gasteropod by Pietro Cremone
Cymatium neapolitanum, a beautiful gasteropod
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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The Mediterranean moray - Muraena helena (sometimes also ... by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
The Mediterranean moray - Muraena helena (sometimes also called Roman eel)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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"Face To Face" Queen angelfish are normally quite skiddi... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Face To Face"
Queen angelfish are normally quite skiddish, swimming off if a diver comes near. This one was eating a sponge and was more concerned with lunch than with me. I took this photograph when it momentarily looked up from the sponge.
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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blenny by Scozio Salvatore
blenny
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date posted posted: Monday, September 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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S P O T T Y Juvenile Painted frogfish (Antennarius pic... by Lilian Koh
S P O T T Y
Juvenile Painted frogfish
(Antennarius pictus)
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Sea Flower spotted in Cirkewwa by Shirley Calleja
Sea Flower spotted in Cirkewwa
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Malta
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Stocky Hawkfish, or Po'opa'a in Hawaiian... Considered a ... by Tony Cherbas
Stocky Hawkfish, or Po'opa'a in Hawaiian... Considered a "rockfish" and less desirable by local fisherman..."The fisherman who fools around in shallow water takes home a Po'opa'a"
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Anemone and Anemonefish by Fabio Strazzi
Anemone and Anemonefish
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Emperor shrimp on close-up solar nudi by Christopher Teoh
Emperor shrimp on close-up solar nudi
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Asian Sea Indonesia
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Under the spell by Ponnie J
Under the spell
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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S H A L L O W Sargassum frogfish (Histrio histrio) Tula... by Irwin Ang
S H A L L O W
Sargassum frogfish (Histrio histrio)
Tulamben, Indonesia. April 2016
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date posted posted: Friday, September 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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