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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
Close-up: Eye of a squid by Els Van Den Borre
Close-up: Eye of a squid
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Lembeh strait, North Sulawesi by Ahmad Mulla
Lembeh strait, North Sulawesi
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Asian Sea Indonesia
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This Juvenile Lizard Fish was only about 5cm in length (s... by Allen Walker
This Juvenile Lizard Fish was only about 5cm in length (see grains of sand), but hey that did not stop him catching an anchovy, even if he could not swallow it completely. Was not easy to get him to sit still for this pic.
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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PSH by Dave Baxter
PSH
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Sad Eyes by Nadya Kulagina
Sad Eyes
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Red it is ........Fuji S5 pro/105VR+UCL by Yves Antoniazzo
Red it is ........Fuji S5 pro/105VR+UCL
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Sea Horse by Jagwang Koo
Sea Horse
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Taken on hol in 2008 at Fihalhohi Maldives. by Gerri Tomlinson
Taken on hol in 2008 at Fihalhohi Maldives.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Enemy of the reef..... Canon ixus 100, inon close up len... by Jackie Campbell
Enemy of the reef.....
Canon ixus 100, inon close up lens, single inon d2000 strobe.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Sudan
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My pretty side!!! It took me a few minutes and about 20+ ... by Ramon Magana
My pretty side!!! It took me a few minutes and about 20+ pics to focus this little thing...but at the end i was happy with the result
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Tasseled Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) amongst ... by Brian Mayes
Tasseled Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) amongst coral on the Liberty wreck
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Watchful eyes - Yellow watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus) by Jovin Lim
Watchful eyes - Yellow watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus)
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Malaysia
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Taken in Oct 09, Fihalhohi, Maldives. Say ahhhhhhhh.... by Gerri Tomlinson
Taken in Oct 09, Fihalhohi, Maldives. Say ahhhhhhhh....
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Mantis Shrimp- Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida by Joel Sarver
Mantis Shrimp-
Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Mutton snapper checking me out! by Mark Reasor
Mutton snapper checking me out!
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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My first pygmy seahorse, Lembeh Straits. by John Miller
My first pygmy seahorse, Lembeh Straits.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Crevette associée dans une anémone. by André Bruchez
Crevette associée dans une anémone.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Diamond Shrimp having a small snack at night by Rico Besserdich
Diamond Shrimp having a small snack at night
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Family of feather duster worms. by Mark Reasor
Family of feather duster worms.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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Midnight snapper portrait - one of my first underwater DS... by Michael Gallagher
Midnight snapper portrait - one of my first underwater DSLR shots, taken on the Great Barrier Reef a few years ago.
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Goldentail Moray Eel - taken with 60mm macro lens by Chris Crediford
Goldentail Moray Eel - taken with 60mm macro lens
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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A Klipvis taken at the wildside in Port Elizabeth South A... by Anthony Wooldridge
A Klipvis taken at the wildside in Port Elizabeth South Africa
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Xeno crab by Gabriele Pastonchi
Xeno crab
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Thailand
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Fire... by Dave Benz
Fire...
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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This turtle was attracted to its own reflection in the do... by Jackie Campbell
This turtle was attracted to its own reflection in the dome port of my lens.
Canon 980, fisheye lens, MWB
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Flat worms Acanthozoon sp. Mating You can see the reprodu... by Gabriele Gabry
Flat worms Acanthozoon sp. Mating You can see the reproductive organ on the top one
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Thailand
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Stonefish taken with Canon G11 on recent hols to the Mald... by Gerri Tomlinson
Stonefish taken with Canon G11 on recent hols to the Maldives. My labrador dog has a similar look to this... "If you haven't got food then bugger off!!!" big grin
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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