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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
Groupper from Sea of Cortez Taken with Nikon D100 in Hug... by Nuno Perez
Groupper from Sea of Cortez
Taken with Nikon D100 in Hugyfot housing, manual exposure control
52 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Portrait by Bernard Maglana
Portrait
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Eye of a Crocodile (fish) A common subject but never the... by Christian Nielsen
Eye of a Crocodile (fish)
A common subject but never the less quite a nice subject.
Another treasure in Komodo.
Olympus E330, 50mm macro, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Lizard fish resting ... by Daniel Strub
Lizard fish resting ...
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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A little Symbiotic Goby on it's Coral.... On of my favori... by Michel Lonfat
A little Symbiotic Goby on it's Coral.... On of my favorite subject in Salt Water... Que du bonheur... :O)...
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Night dive in North Male atoll - Maldives - Lumix FX01 by Patrick Tutt
Night dive in North Male atoll - Maldives - Lumix FX01
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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What can you do, when you have the marco lense and face a... by Christa Nmi
What can you do, when you have the marco lense and face a leopard shark right in from ot you??? Make a Marco!!!
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Oman Oman
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white stonefish by Al Siongco
white stonefish
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Japan
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crevette associée by André Bruchez
crevette associée
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Loggerhead Turtle at the Wreck of the Vamar, Mexico Beach... by Carol Cox
Loggerhead Turtle at the Wreck of the Vamar, Mexico Beach, FL
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico United States
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a small fish of the gobius family by Carlo Lopez
a small fish of the gobius family
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Leaf scorpion fish (Taenianotus triacanthus) Compact c... by Marco Faimali
Leaf scorpion fish (Taenianotus triacanthus)
Compact camera Nikon Coolpix 8400 in Ikelite Housing and two Epoque ES-150 DS Strobes.
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Flamingo Tongue Cowrie by Herbert Dubois
Flamingo Tongue Cowrie
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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My what big teeth you have! by Eric Fly
My what big teeth you have!
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Whiteface Waspfish-Lembeh by Richard Goluch
Whiteface Waspfish-Lembeh
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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A Bispira Volutacornis, a bristelworm living on rocky bot... by Carlo Lopez
A Bispira Volutacornis, a bristelworm living on rocky bottom.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Flamingo tongues on a purple Sea Fan. by Katherine Mckelvey
Flamingo tongues on a purple Sea Fan.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Hello Moray. Canon G10, no strobe. by John Hill
Hello Moray. Canon G10, no strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Stoplight Parrotfish in its initial stage. Canon SD 750 w... by Jarrett Regier
Stoplight Parrotfish in its initial stage. Canon SD 750 with Canon Housing and Sealife Pro Flash.
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Orange ball anemone. Can only be seen at night. by Jorge Sorial
Orange ball anemone. Can only be seen at night.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Canarian crayfish, an endangered species. Red is beautiful! by Jorge Sorial
Canarian crayfish, an endangered species. Red is beautiful!
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Difficult shot in slight surge with coral crab hiding in ... by Rene Schutte
Difficult shot in slight surge with coral crab hiding in the staghorn Coral. Used Sea&Sea DX5000 with LX-15 Video Light. I like the hair on his legs and the pretty polyps around him.
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Cleaner shrimp about to start work by Charles Wright
Cleaner shrimp about to start work
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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A Blue Blenny for the new year! by Chad Ordelheide
A Blue Blenny for the new year!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Porcelain anenome crab. Was tucked under one side of the... by John Hill
Porcelain anenome crab. Was tucked under one side of the anenome but kindly came out for me to take a pic. Canon G10
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Stonefish? Taken during a drift dive in Florida with a ca... by Jarrett Regier
Stonefish? Taken during a drift dive in Florida with a canon SD750 and canon housing.
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 4, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Spotted Burfish-Blue Heron Bridge in Riveria Beach by Joel Sarver
Spotted Burfish-Blue Heron Bridge in Riveria Beach
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date posted posted: Monday, January 4, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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