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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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Parrot fish catching a nap in Honduras by Lee Arbo
Parrot fish catching a nap in Honduras
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Jewel Grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) - Tulamben, Bali (C... by Marco Waagmeester
Jewel Grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) - Tulamben, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000w)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Clown fish off Hideaway Island, Vanuatu. Image taken with... by Benita Vincent
Clown fish off Hideaway Island, Vanuatu. Image taken with Olympus C5060 and Inon strobe
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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Bluegill Perch (Lepomis macrochirus) - Clear Springs Scub... by Shawn Rener
Bluegill Perch (Lepomis macrochirus) - Clear Springs Scuba Park - Texas 2009
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: United States
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Portrait study of Blotched Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aprin... by David Henshaw
Portrait study of Blotched Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aprinus). Taken with D200, 60mm lens.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Who's looking at who?? by Allen Walker
Who's looking at who??
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Faron island, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt. Crocodile Flathead (... by John Butler
Faron island, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt.
Crocodile Flathead (Crocodile fish)
This Flathead was gazing at me as i took his picture, i wasn't until after id looked at the shot that i noticed his hypnotic eyes. What a beautiful creature.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"Abstract" by Debi Henshaw
"Abstract"
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Night dive in Lembeh Strait, saw this cute little moray n... by Thomas Ozanne
Night dive in Lembeh Strait, saw this cute little moray neatly arranged on the sand. Nikon D300 , Subal Housing, 105mm + 1.4 x Teleconverter. Inon Z240 Strobe.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Needle Urchin - F4 1/60 ISO200 60MM macro lens. by Stuart Ganz
Needle Urchin - F4 1/60 ISO200 60MM macro lens.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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A large Morey inspects the lens of the housing, allowing ... by Marcus Grant
A large Morey inspects the lens of the housing, allowing me to take a couple of shots.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Malta
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lion fish, shot with nikon and 60mm macro by Simon Gardener
lion fish, shot with nikon and 60mm macro
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean United Kingdom
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Common Lionfish (Pterois volitans) swimming at Takawide 1... by Brian Mayes
Common Lionfish (Pterois volitans) swimming at Takawide 1 in Lembeh Straits.....¸> <((((º> .....Canon G9
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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"How do I look" Canon G7 Internal flash by Sangut Santoso
"How do I look"
Canon G7 Internal flash
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Little ray of sunshine... Usually it is not right to shoo... by Andre Yanco
Little ray of sunshine... Usually it is not right to shoot a subject from behind, but this little lion fish was so attractive with its fins spread out that I could not miss the chance smile Nikon 60mm SB800 in Fantasea Housing in TTL mode.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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Taken in Lembeh this was the second time in 4 days I had ... by Thomas Ozanne
Taken in Lembeh this was the second time in 4 days I had witnessed this behaviour. The Lizard fish was sitting on the bottom waiting patiently for it's dinner to give up the fight. Nikon D300, Subal Housing, 105mm Inon Z240 Strobe.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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This image is the shell and mantle of a Flamingo Tongue ... by Steven Anderson
This image is the shell and mantle of a Flamingo Tongue taken during a dive in Roatan in 2007.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Dive site Black Beauty by Sergiy Glushchenko
Dive site Black Beauty
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Conger conger. Canon Ixus 980. by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Conger conger. Canon Ixus 980.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Sandiver, Crash Boat, Aguadilla, P.R. by Abimael Márquez
Sandiver, Crash Boat, Aguadilla, P.R.
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date posted posted: Friday, June 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Snake pipefish. Trefor pier. D3, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Snake pipefish. Trefor pier. D3, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Friday, June 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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Crevette by André Bruchez
Crevette
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date posted posted: Friday, June 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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trying to make the orange spearer interact with its refle... by Adriano Trapani
trying to make the orange spearer interact with its reflection in a pocket mirror, yet it wasn't interested at all...
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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D300, Tokina 10-17 by Larry Polster
D300, Tokina 10-17
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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A Hind hunting on the reef. Shot with a Canon 30D in an I... by Lee Newman
A Hind hunting on the reef. Shot with a Canon 30D in an Ikelite housing, a 100/2.8 macro and a DS-160. 1/125th at f14 in about 50' of water on Calabas Reef, Bonaire.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Urchin Macro - F4 1/60 ISO 200. by Stuart Ganz
Urchin Macro - F4 1/60 ISO 200.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Another Scopion fish shot. This was quite hard to do as i... by Marcus Grant
Another Scopion fish shot. This was quite hard to do as it kept moving so alot of patiants needed to get the right angle.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Malta
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