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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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Olympus C 8080, black and white styl by Veronika Matějková
Olympus C 8080, black and white styl
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"Golden Eye" Yellow Margin Moray Eel. D200, 60mm No crop... by Debi Henshaw
"Golden Eye" Yellow Margin Moray Eel. D200, 60mm No cropping :o)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Grouper at cleaning station - Tulamben, Bali (Canon G9, I... by Marco Waagmeester
Grouper at cleaning station - Tulamben, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000w)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Long-fin bannerfish. Canon 40D, SIGMA 50mm macro. by Alexander Nikolaev
Long-fin bannerfish. Canon 40D, SIGMA 50mm macro.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Hermit Crab, Green Ends Gully, Eyemouth. Taken with Canon... by Richard Toward
Hermit Crab, Green Ends Gully, Eyemouth. Taken with Canon A570is
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: North Sea United Kingdom
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That picture was shot with nikon coolpix P5100. On the di... by Philippe Duval
That picture was shot with nikon coolpix P5100. On the dive site cuevitas in Xpuha may 2009. Nice trompet fish.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Flamboyant cuttlefish. Taken with a Canon Ixus 870is. by Kim J Ho
Flamboyant cuttlefish. Taken with a Canon Ixus 870is.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Stargazer taken in Lembeh. Found this guy free swimming ... by Patrick Burke
Stargazer taken in Lembeh. Found this guy free swimming during the day!
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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With a canon G 10 off Anilao by Andrew Macleod
With a canon G 10 off Anilao
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Two small commensal shrimp on sea anemone. Nikon 801s+60... by Alberto Romeo
Two small commensal shrimp on sea anemone.
Nikon 801s+60macro+ Ikelite strobe&housing
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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star light star bright by Lee Arbo
star light star bright
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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"Good morning" Canon g7 inon macro lens. Full frame by Sangut Santoso
"Good morning"
Canon g7 inon macro lens.
Full frame
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date posted posted: Monday, June 15, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Small creatures. That picture was taken with a sony dsc-p... by Philippe Duval
Small creatures. That picture was taken with a sony dsc-p10 during a dive on Cozumel island. You can see a needle crab and a starfish inside a sponge.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Hippocampos ramulosus in close up between the vegetation. by John De Jong
Hippocampos ramulosus in close up between the vegetation.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) France
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Tompot. Porth Ysgaden. D3, 105mm. by Derek Haslam
Tompot. Porth Ysgaden. D3, 105mm.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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crown of thorns close up ,shot yesterday, with nikon and ... by Simon Gardener
crown of thorns close up ,shot yesterday, with nikon and 70mm macro no cropp
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean United Arab Emirates
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Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) - Moyo island... by Marco Waagmeester
Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) - Moyo island, Indonesia (Canon G9, Inon D2000w)
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Tiger striped garden eel (Heteroconger polyzona) - Tulamb... by Marco Waagmeester
Tiger striped garden eel (Heteroconger polyzona) - Tulamben, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000w)
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Juvy freckled frogfish, size of thumbnail, D300-60mm by Larry Polster
Juvy freckled frogfish, size of thumbnail, D300-60mm
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Butterfly fish (Heniochus intermedius) on the trot. Niko... by Alberto Romeo
Butterfly fish (Heniochus intermedius) on the trot.
Nikon 801s + 60 macro-Ikelite housing&strobe
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"Striking Eyes" No Cropping straight out of the camera :o) by Debi Henshaw
"Striking Eyes" No Cropping straight out of the camera :o)
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date posted posted: Friday, June 12, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Striated Frogfish, in Crash Boats. by Juan Torres
Striated Frogfish, in Crash Boats.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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clinid Nikon F-100 with 60mm macro lens by Geoff Spiby
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Nikon F-100 with 60mm macro lens
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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shot at dibba rock last weekend 50mm macro,cropped by Simon Gardener
shot at dibba rock last weekend 50mm macro,cropped
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean United Arab Emirates
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Face to face with the queen, Saba Island. by Abimael Márquez
Face to face with the queen, Saba Island.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Pale Sea Cucumber (feeding)/ Photo taken using an Olympus... by J. Daniel Horovatin
Pale Sea Cucumber (feeding)/ Photo taken using an Olympus C-7070, set to UW macro scene, in a PT-027 housing and with a Nikonos SB-105 strobe. After watching the critter for some time I caught it as it inserted one of its ten tentacles in its mouth.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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three for the price of one?? Canon G10 by Andrew Macleod
three for the price of one?? Canon G10
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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