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Bay Pipefish in eel grass.
By David Lehrian
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Santa Barbara Janolus at Monterey Wharf #2. We have been seeing these up here the last bunch of years in the fall. They used to not be this far north.
By David Lehrian
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Goloath grouper encounter
By Noel Lopez
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Big coral canyons in Gardens of the queen.
By Noel Lopez
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

Bay Pipefish in eel grass.
By David Lehrian
posted (6 days ago)
0 votes

Bay Pipefish in eel grass at Monterey Wharf #2. He was hiding in the eel grass and was difficult to get a clear shot of, but I managed to capture this dramatic image.
By David Lehrian
posted (6 days ago)
0 votes

A lone yellow Damselfish is centre stage in the staghorn coral.
By Conor Moore
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Goloath grouper encounter
By Noel Lopez
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

Looking at me looking at you (taken under permit) A Pilot Whale
By Arun Madisetti
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

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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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Hoplophrys oatesi by Alex Varani
Hoplophrys oatesi
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Fuji point and shoot, hard coral and polyps by Katie Hollamby
Fuji point and shoot, hard coral and polyps
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hinge-back shrimp. Tulamben, Bali by Doug Anderson
Hinge-back shrimp. Tulamben, Bali
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editor's comments

Editor's Comment
keeping it simple is difficult!
48 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Macro of octopus by Vittorio Durante
Macro of octopus
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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fire coral&Half-and-half chromis by Yakout Hegazy
fire coral&Half-and-half chromis
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Morena Verde in Cabo Pulmo, BCS, Mexico by Thierry Lannoy
Morena Verde in Cabo Pulmo, BCS, Mexico
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Seastar on night dive - Saudi Arabia - Canon S90 with han... by Patrick Tutt
Seastar on night dive - Saudi Arabia - Canon S90 with hand torch light
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2010

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Editor's Comment
nice abstract crop - with texture added by side lighting
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Saudi Arabia
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North cyprus 2009 by Timucin Ucar
North cyprus 2009
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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octopus looking ,taken with d700 nikon and 105 nikon lens by José Augusto Silva
octopus looking ,taken with d700 nikon and 105 nikon lens
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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A beautiful Palinurus elephas. by Ferdinando Meli
A beautiful Palinurus elephas.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Face to Face with this big and I guess very old and very ... by Michel Lonfat
Face to Face with this big and I guess very old and very friendly Perch... Que du bonheur... :O)...
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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A beautiful Caddis fly, sedge (Phryganea grandis Linnaeus... by Michel Lonfat
A beautiful Caddis fly, sedge (Phryganea grandis Linnaeus 1758). Picture taken in the lake of Neuchâtel. C'est que du bonheur... que je te dis nom di blou... :O)...
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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Gobius taken with a anikon D700 camera ,105 nikon lens by José Augusto Silva
Gobius taken with a anikon D700 camera ,105 nikon lens
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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Soft coral. Point and Shoot Fuji by Katie Hollamby
Soft coral. Point and Shoot Fuji
49 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Naxioides cf. taurus by Alex Varani
Naxioides cf. taurus
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Probably one of the most Harlequin shrimps captured on pi... by Bruno Van Saen
Probably one of the most Harlequin shrimps captured on picture. Dive sport: Seraya Secrects, Bali.
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Lembeh - North Sulawesi by M Faizal Chandra Bayu
Lembeh - North Sulawesi
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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North Cyprus by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Hello nosey ! (Sargocentron hastatus) by Raoul Caprez
Hello nosey ! (Sargocentron hastatus)
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic Cape Verde
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oh no... (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus) by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
oh no... (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus)
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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neopetrolisthes oshimai by Alex Varani
neopetrolisthes oshimai
11 Votes
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Clown fish in neon anenome........ Canon ixus 980, singl... by Jackie Campbell
Clown fish in neon anenome........
Canon ixus 980, single inon d2000 strobe.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A very curious one (Murenae melanotis). On this picture i... by Raoul Caprez
A very curious one (Murenae melanotis). On this picture it looks like an owl :-)
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic Cape Verde
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Flat worm by Peter Foulds
Flat worm
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Madagascar
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Jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata)
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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snail by Heru Suryoko
snail
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38 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Scorpionfish posing for me by Barbara Schilling
Scorpionfish posing for me
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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