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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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Tiger shrimp by Athanassios Lazarides
Tiger shrimp
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date posted posted: Friday, December 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Indonesia
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to all OW photographers "happy new year" and "Merry Chris... by Marc Van Den Broeck
to all OW photographers "happy new year" and "Merry Christmas"
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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The Cleaning Station. Durban dancers(also known as camel ... by Peet J Van Eeden
The Cleaning Station. Durban dancers(also known as camel shrimps) doing a manicure
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date posted posted: Friday, December 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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~ The Hawk ~ by Geo Cloete
~ The Hawk ~
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date posted posted: Friday, December 22, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Jayakar's seahorse (Hippocampus jayakari), Dahab, Egypt. by Filip Staes
Jayakar's seahorse (Hippocampus jayakari), Dahab, Egypt.
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sun-burst soft coral (m. capensis) is the the only speci... by Peet J Van Eeden
Sun-burst soft coral (m. capensis) is the the only species of this genus and occurs in South African waters
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic South Africa
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Goby by Rudy Janssen
Goby
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Pipefish by Rudy Janssen
Pipefish
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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C U R I O U S Juvenile Toby Fish by Ton Ghela
C U R I O U S
Juvenile Toby Fish
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Small snakelocks anemone (Sagartiogeton undatus), Zeeland... by Filip Staes
Small snakelocks anemone (Sagartiogeton undatus), Zeeland, The Netherlands.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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Rising Sun. The beauty of the Plum Anemone (Actinia mande... by Peet J Van Eeden
Rising Sun. The beauty of the Plum Anemone (Actinia mandelae) Occurs on both sides of the Cape Peninsula
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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SHRIMP ON WHIP CORAL. Perfect mimetism by Eric Lambert
SHRIMP ON WHIP CORAL. Perfect mimetism
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Always around. Small goby... by Eduard Bello
Always around. Small goby...
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Netherlands
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TODD Grand Komodo - Raja Ampat by Manbd Uidive
TODD
Grand Komodo - Raja Ampat
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Coral polyps reflection captured in a Nassau Grouper eye. by Ann Donahue
Coral polyps reflection captured in a Nassau Grouper eye.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Beauty of the yellow by Eric Lambert
Beauty of the yellow
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date posted posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Ready to hatch for Christmas by Mario Robillard
Ready to hatch for Christmas
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date posted posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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biglips by Marc Van Den Broeck
biglips
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date posted posted: Monday, December 18, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Synodus dermatogenys Sand lizard fish by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Synodus dermatogenys
Sand lizard fish
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 17, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Red Fanworm with one its 2 colorful spirals (Protula bisp... by Peet J Van Eeden
Red Fanworm with one its 2 colorful spirals (Protula bispiralis)
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 17, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Octopus at night by Leslie Howell
Octopus at night
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 16, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Gobius cruentatus Keep an eye on my amphora by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Gobius cruentatus
Keep an eye on my amphora
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 16, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Transparent Commensal Shrimp on top of Blue Dot Bubble An... by Shahhar Ar
Transparent Commensal Shrimp on top of Blue Dot Bubble Anemone @ Padang Bai, Bali on 19th November 2017.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Long-spined sea scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) - Picture tak... by Gary Carpenter
Long-spined sea scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) - Picture taken in Dunmanus Bay, Ireland.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Ireland
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Immortal jelly fish by Liang Fu
Immortal jelly fish
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date posted posted: Friday, December 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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The Bumble Bee Shrimp is always moving and hard to point ... by Catrin Pichler
The Bumble Bee Shrimp is always moving and hard to point down. In Ambon there have been many of them and so I managed to get this close up.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Building blocks of the ocean- False Honeycomb coral (Favi... by Peet J Van Eeden
Building blocks of the ocean- False Honeycomb coral (Favia spp)
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date posted posted: Friday, December 15, 2017
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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