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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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Leopard Searobin by Abimael Márquez
Leopard Searobin
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 10, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Posing Leaf fish. by Jonny Haugstad
Posing Leaf fish.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 9, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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H O O Seagrass Filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus) Anilao... by Irwin Ang
H O O
Seagrass Filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus)
Anilao, Philippines. May 2014
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 9, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Tiger Pipefish, Chowder Bay by Doug Anderson
Tiger Pipefish, Chowder Bay
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Outstanding macro shot!
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 9, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Camouflaged: buried stonefish in sandy slope by Laura Dinraths
Camouflaged: buried stonefish in sandy slope
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 9, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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~ Tugged In ~ by Geo Cloete
~ Tugged In ~
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 8, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (South) South Africa
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Mr Grumpy! A leaf scorpion fish looking down on me. by Elaine Wallace
Mr Grumpy! A leaf scorpion fish looking down on me.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 7, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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at eye level NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" uw housin... by Thomas Bannenberg
at eye level
NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" uw housing, 105mm Macro (NIKKOR)
Settings: f13, 1/100, ISO 100
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 7, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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The cyclops (particularly the carapace of a cicada of sea) by Alessandro Pagano
The cyclops (particularly the carapace of a cicada of sea)
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 7, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Buried veined/coconut octopus in the sand at night by Laura Dinraths
Buried veined/coconut octopus in the sand at night
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 7, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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S M A S H E R Pink-eared Mantis shrimp (Gonodactylidae)... by Irwin Ang
S M A S H E R
Pink-eared Mantis shrimp (Gonodactylidae)
Anilao, Philippines. January 2015
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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W O O Mimic Leatherjacket (blacksaddle mimic) - Paralut... by Irwin Ang
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Mimic Leatherjacket (blacksaddle mimic) - Paraluteres prionurus
Pom Pom Island, Malaysia. March 2015
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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Jawfish carrying eggs in the mouth by Raffaele Livornese
Jawfish carrying eggs in the mouth
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Another yellowhead jawfish cleaning house. by J. Daniel Horovatin
Another yellowhead jawfish cleaning house.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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This frogfish portrait is my first attempt at using a sno... by Susan Nickerson
This frogfish portrait is my first attempt at using a snoot while on an U/W photo workshop in Anilao.
2 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 4, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Portrait by Robert Malolepszy
Portrait
3 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 4, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Squat shrimp in anemone. by J. Daniel Horovatin
Squat shrimp in anemone.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 4, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Sand-perch portrait by Laura Dinraths
Sand-perch portrait
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 2, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Kiss Me by Kf Leong
Kiss Me
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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the conch by Terry Eames
the conch
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Coiled basket star (echinoderm) in a reef crevice by day by Laura Dinraths
Coiled basket star (echinoderm) in a reef crevice by day
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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yellow goby by Taco Cheung
yellow goby
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Interesting color of this christmas treeworm by J. Daniel Horovatin
Interesting color of this christmas treeworm
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Moray, Olympus 60 mm macro lens, PL6 by Jonny Haugstad
Moray, Olympus 60 mm macro lens, PL6
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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"Squat Shrimp Portrait" Canon 5Diii in Aquatica 250pro... by Wayne Jones
"Squat Shrimp Portrait"
Canon 5Diii in Aquatica
250pro with snoot
1/200 f25 iso200
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Ornate Ghost Pipefish Dumaguete, Philippines by Robin Bateman
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
Dumaguete, Philippines
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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I spy with my little eye. Taken with Oly OM-D EM-5 w/60mm... by Adeline Wee
I spy with my little eye. Taken with Oly OM-D EM-5 w/60mm macro lens
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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