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Goloath grouper encounter
By Noel Lopez
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Big coral canyons in Gardens of the queen.
By Noel Lopez
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

A lone yellow Damselfish is centre stage in the staghorn coral.
By Conor Moore
posted (6 days ago)
0 votes

Goloath grouper encounter
By Noel Lopez
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Looking at me looking at you (taken under permit) A Pilot Whale
By Arun Madisetti
posted (3 days ago)
0 votes

in the arms of the underwater world
By Daria Sinitsina
posted Sunday, September 27, 2026
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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Honeycomb cowfish, Something Special, Bonaire by Tobias Reitmayr
Honeycomb cowfish, Something Special, Bonaire
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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colors by Claude Lespagne
colors
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Spectre Snooted super klipfish in False Bay by Kate Jonker
Spectre
Snooted super klipfish in False Bay
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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Editor's Comment
Amazing use of creative lighting on this one!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Nocturnal encounter by Athanassios Lazarides
Nocturnal encounter
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9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Moray open Mauth, turneffe atolon Belize by Alejandro Topete
Moray open Mauth, turneffe atolon Belize
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 12, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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A Juvenile Filefish in Raja Ampat by Norm Vexler
A Juvenile Filefish in Raja Ampat
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 12, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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The Ornate Ghost Pipefish photographed in Ambon Harbor, I... by Norm Vexler
The Ornate Ghost Pipefish photographed in Ambon Harbor, Indonesia
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 12, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Helloooo by Claude Lespagne
Helloooo
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 12, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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European lobster or common lobster (Homarus gammarus), Ze... by Filip Staes
European lobster or common lobster (Homarus gammarus), Zeeland, The Netherlands.
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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Symphodus roissali Five-spotted wrasse by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Symphodus roissali
Five-spotted wrasse
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Feather Duster Worm by Peet J Van Eeden
Feather Duster Worm
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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whitepins by Marc Van Den Broeck
whitepins
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 9, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Hymenocera picta. Lembeh strait. Nikon D800E, 105 macro,... by Marchione Giacomo
Hymenocera picta. Lembeh strait.
Nikon D800E, 105 macro, two strobo
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 8, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Somehow I can't stop thinkig of the 70"s when I see this photo. The shrimp is certainly rocking his wig!

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Lion fish portrait by Steve Taylor
Lion fish portrait
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Red Sea by Claude Lespagne
Red Sea
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hi Moray ! by Beate Seiler
Hi Moray !
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Rusty Goby Priolepis hipoliti by John Roach
Rusty Goby
Priolepis hipoliti
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 5, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Femail scalyhead sculpin hiding in the kelp. Howe Sound, ... by Steve Taylor
Femail scalyhead sculpin hiding in the kelp. Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 5, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Canada
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Decorated Warbonnet out hunting. Howe Sound, British Colu... by Steve Taylor
Decorated Warbonnet out hunting. Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 5, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Canada
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The Red Planet Southern smooth-eye glass blenny by John Roach
The Red Planet
Southern smooth-eye glass blenny
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 4, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Trombollito robusto by Alvaro Sepulveda Tolosa
Trombollito robusto
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 4, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Chile
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Close up of a Dahlia anemone (Urticina felina), Zeeland, ... by Filip Staes
Close up of a Dahlia anemone (Urticina felina), Zeeland, The Netherlands.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 4, 2018
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date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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four out of one by Doris Vierkötter
four out of one
shortlistedShortlisted!
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 3, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Fatal flag by Jinggong Zhang
Fatal flag
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14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 2, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Daddy Jawfish by Henley Spiers
Daddy Jawfish
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 2, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Blue-striped Hermit Crab and its camouflage by Peet J Van Eeden
Blue-striped Hermit Crab and its camouflage
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 2, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South Africa
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