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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
Ornate Ghost Pipefish by Deniz Muzaffer Gökmen
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 14, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Scorpion Fish by Victor Micallef
Scorpion Fish
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 13, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Malta
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Face to face by Gleb Tolstov
Face to face
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 13, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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"Framed" by Dusty Norman
"Framed"
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Goby on bubble coral by Pietro Cremone
Goby on bubble coral
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Clown fish guarding her eggs. by Marylin Batt
Clown fish guarding her eggs.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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stripes without the stars by Peet J Van Eeden
stripes without the stars
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Halloween Roughhead Blenny by Henley Spiers
Halloween Roughhead Blenny
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Red fish looking proud by Karl Kühn
Red fish looking proud
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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oooohhh...I'm a Blue Ribbon Eel ! by Erik Kf Goossens
oooohhh...I'm a Blue Ribbon Eel !
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12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Eels Always Look Surprised by Henley Spiers
Eels Always Look Surprised
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Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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A lonely longsout seahorse by Mr Chai
by: Mr Chai
A lonely longsout seahorse
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Malaysia
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Glowing strawberry anemones in UV light by Peet J Van Eeden
Glowing strawberry anemones in UV light
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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A small blenny on the lena wreck by Mark Reilly
A small blenny on the lena wreck
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13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Lovely boy by Ming Wen
Lovely boy
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Face by Ming Wen
Face
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Orconectes limosus / a species of crayfish in the family ... by Olivier Notz
Orconectes limosus / a species of crayfish in the family Cambridge, photographed in the lake of Zug in Central Switzerland.
Photo taken with Canon EOS 5DS R and Macro 100 f2,8
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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Harle - "queen" by Kelvin H.y. Tan
Harle - "queen"
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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MORAY EEL by Ramin Ardestani
MORAY EEL
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14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 7, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Persian/Arabian Gulf Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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LION FISH by Ramin Ardestani
LION FISH
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24 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 7, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Persian/Arabian Gulf Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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European Conger coming up out of a hollow and scaring me.... by Aksems Kuzucu
European Conger coming up out of a hollow and scaring me.
I was about to drop the camera in the hollow.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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A different seahorse- longsnout pipefish in eelgrass by Peet J Van Eeden
A different seahorse- longsnout pipefish in eelgrass
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Roses of the Sea-False Plum anemone by Peet J Van Eeden
Roses of the Sea-False Plum anemone
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Taking refuge in the leftover tube of a fanworm. Used an... by Victor Micallef
Taking refuge in the leftover tube of a fanworm. Used an Olympus mirrorless with a diopter wetlens for extra macro
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Malta
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"Golden Portrait" A rare golden coney. No filters used: ... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Golden Portrait"
A rare golden coney. No filters used: I angled my strobes to light just the coney's face, and used a high shutter speed, which kept the water behind it blue and provided a nice contrast to the yellow.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Crocodile fish by Leena Roy
Crocodile fish
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 3, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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iridescent looking by John Loving
iridescent looking
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 3, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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