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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
Close up of a Crab, Canon 5D IV 50mm Sigma Art & closeup10+
Close-up of a Spotted Cleaner Shrimp at rest...
Close up of Syngnathus typhle from Oslo fjord. Canon G16 & Sola 1200 Photo
Pagurus anachoretus
Ribbon eel bokeh
Green Sea Turtle - Chelonia mydas
Red Sea Goatfish - Parupeneus forsskali
Cuttlefish Portrait II
Common Lionfish - Pterois miles
Porcelain Crab on a sea anemone
Saddled Seabream - Oblada melanura
White paddle flap rhinopias
Sparisoma cretense & Chromis chromis
A diff colour Tiger goby
Scorpaena maderensis
Defensive behaviour
Wrasse - Pteragogus trispilus
Bigfin reef squid - Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Purple Sea Urchin - Paracentrotus lividus
Beadlet Anemone - Actinia equina
Parablennius zvonimiri
Pteragogus trispilus
The Grumpy Guy
(Antennarius Pictus)
My first octo! Taken in waist deep water at Blue Heron, I sucked a steel dry. An Atlantic Longarm, this was an interesting critter.
Vibrant sea urchin
Tiger shrimp
One eye jack
Hippocampus guttulatus
Back lighted
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