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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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Phyllodesmium serratum Located under Port Victoria Jetty. by Roy Spraakman
Phyllodesmium serratum Located under Port Victoria Jetty.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 12, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Grumpy Cardinal by Penn De Los Santos
Grumpy Cardinal
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date posted posted: Friday, January 12, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Froggy by Regie Casia
Froggy
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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One of the favorite subjects of a lot of photographers. A... by Brenda De Vries
One of the favorite subjects of a lot of photographers. Always nice to encounter. This nice murene.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Small colorful creatures of the Indian Ocean_Dec-2023 (C... by Antonio Venturelli
Small colorful creatures of the Indian Ocean_Dec-2023
(Canon100,1/200,f10,iso100)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 9, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arabian Sea India
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Robust ghost pipefish by Jimmela Sabanate
Robust ghost pipefish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 9, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Lizardfish like to be a shark by Hansruedi Wuersten
Lizardfish like to be a shark
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 9, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Ancylomenes kobayashii NOSY BE 2022 by Didier Pasquini
Ancylomenes kobayashii
NOSY BE 2022
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date posted posted: Monday, January 8, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Madagascar
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Olympus by Marivic Maramot
Olympus
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 7, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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"Clowning Around" Fiji Anemonefish (aka Clownfish) Beqa... by Owen Palmer
"Clowning Around"
Fiji Anemonefish (aka Clownfish)
Beqa Lagoon, Fiji
Panasonic LX100
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 7, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Fiji
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Mouth brooding Cardinal fish by Penn De Los Santos
Mouth brooding Cardinal fish
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date posted posted: Friday, January 5, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Leafy seadragon - Phycodurus eques by Sofia Tenggrono
Leafy seadragon - Phycodurus eques
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date posted posted: Friday, January 5, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Olympus by Marivic Maramot
Olympus
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 3, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Olympus by Marivic Maramot
Olympus
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 3, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Face to face with a Limacia clavigera on a kelp leave by Koni Von Arb
Face to face with a Limacia clavigera on a kelp leave
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 31, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Norway
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pigmy sea horse by Francisco Javier Safont Moix
pigmy sea horse
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 31, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Spain
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peces en la boca by Francisco Javier Safont Moix
peces en la boca
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 31, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Spain
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STENOPUS HISPIDUS REUNION 2022 by Didier Pasquini
STENOPUS HISPIDUS
REUNION 2022
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 31, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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tried and tried and tried by Ravinthran Dhamodaram
tried and tried and tried
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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This is always challenging to shoot , hairy shrimp by Ravinthran Dhamodaram
This is always challenging to shoot , hairy shrimp
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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This is a long time coming as it was at 22m with current by Ravinthran Dhamodaram
This is a long time coming as it was at 22m with current
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Mullus surmuletus MOTIONLESS by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Mullus surmuletus
MOTIONLESS
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Synodus dermatogenys by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Synodus dermatogenys
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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MURENE PONCTUEE - GYMNOTHORAX MELEAGRIS REUNION 2023 by Didier Pasquini
MURENE PONCTUEE - GYMNOTHORAX MELEAGRIS
REUNION 2023
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 30, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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With the poor vis, everything seems brown. You can't imag... by Antonio Venturelli
With the poor vis, everything seems brown. You can't imagine that the right lighting allows to discover otherwise invisible details. Like in this close-up of a hermit crab photographed a few mt deep in the sea of Goa_2023
(Canon100, 1/200,f14,i.100)
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date posted posted: Friday, December 29, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arabian Sea India
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Rhinopias frondosa. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Rhinopias frondosa.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 29, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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HIPPOCAMPE Hérissé - hippocampus histrix NOSY BE 2022 by Didier Pasquini
HIPPOCAMPE Hérissé - hippocampus histrix
NOSY BE 2022
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date posted posted: Friday, December 29, 2023
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Madagascar
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