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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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cray fish by Pepe Suarez
cray fish
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14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 21, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Attack!! Taken by TG4 by Terri Wu
Attack!!
Taken by TG4
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 21, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Pink eye goby by Fabio Strazzi
Pink eye goby
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Italy
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Stripes in the night - El Nido - Palawan - Philippines by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Stripes in the night - El Nido - Palawan - Philippines
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Live sand - Cebu -Philippines by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Live sand - Cebu -Philippines
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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baby fish Settings: f11, 1/60, ISO 100, wet diopter (+2 ... by Thomas Bannenberg
baby fish
Settings: f11, 1/60, ISO 100, wet diopter (+2 diopt.)
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Anemonefish taken Sept 7, 2015 Canon 7D with 60mm macro... by Glenn Kulmer
Anemonefish
taken Sept 7, 2015
Canon 7D with 60mm macro
settings - f10 @ 1/50 - iso 160
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Tompot Blenny On one of the boilers of the Tpot by Cat Briggs
Tompot Blenny
On one of the boilers of the Tpot
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date posted posted: Monday, July 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: English Channel United Kingdom
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Those cleaner fish have a really scary job! by Pepe Suarez
Those cleaner fish have a really scary job!
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date posted posted: Monday, July 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Mediterranean young red scorpionfish by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Mediterranean young red scorpionfish
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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O O O H Pipefish (Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus) by Lilian Koh
O O O H
Pipefish
(Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus)
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 14, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Say ahhhh.... by Kelvin H.y. Tan
Say ahhhh....
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 14, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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A soft coral against the current by Fabio Strazzi
A soft coral against the current
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Jawfish with his next generation by Frankie Rivera
Jawfish with his next generation
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Unknown... by Brad Ryon
Unknown...
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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The elusive little Sea Moth.....master of disguise. Taken... by Philip Goets
The elusive little Sea Moth.....master of disguise. Taken at entry to Coral Gardens, Dahab in April 2016 with Sealife DC1400.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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hypo by Philippe Tonacini
hypo
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date posted posted: Monday, July 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Blenny of Personality by Tony Cherbas
Blenny of Personality
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 10, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Ceratosoma tenue and Periclimene imperator Nikon D800E, ... by Marchione Giacomo
Ceratosoma tenue and Periclimene imperator
Nikon D800E, 105 macro , two strobo
ISO100;F20;17160
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 9, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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bernard l'hermite by Philippe Tonacini
bernard l'hermite
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date posted posted: Friday, July 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Cuttlefish hunted a big flounder in the night dive. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Cuttlefish hunted a big flounder in the night dive.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 7, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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D E A D L Y Mototi Octopus (Amphioctopus siamensis) by Lilian Koh
D E A D L Y
Mototi Octopus
(Amphioctopus siamensis)
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 7, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Feather Duster Colony. When leaving the dive site, I fou... by Frankie Rivera
Feather Duster Colony. When leaving the dive site, I found these little beauties!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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big ears and tongue out :) by Pepe Suarez
big ears and tongue out smile
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South Africa
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M A S K Paddle Flap Rhinopias (Rhinopias eschmeyeri) by Lilian Koh
M A S K
Paddle Flap Rhinopias
(Rhinopias eschmeyeri)
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2016
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editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Why so serious? Love the symmetry and capture here. Lighting is perfect.
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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It's a Moray! by Luke Gordon
It's a Moray!
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14 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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yellow baby's by Marc Van Den Broeck
yellow baby's
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Tanzania
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