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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
white face
Snowflakes
Parched lips
Colorful blenny curiously looking out of its den_Photo taken at the Wreck dive site, in Goa_India_2023
(Canon60, 1/200,f18,iso200)
Portrait Scorpionfish with Marelux SOFT snoot
Scorpaena porcus
Big mouth
Diodon hystrix (Porcupinefish) beneath a hard coral umbre... by E&e Lp
by: E&e Lp
Diodon hystrix (Porcupinefish) beneath a hard coral umbrella. (f/8, 1/80, ISO-200, 42mm). - Els
Jurasic moray
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Scorpaena maderensis
It`s time to escape
Fireworm lit by UV.
Scorpionfish
shortlistedShortlisted!
Corals like flowers in the wind_Goa_2023
(Canon100,1/250,f14,iso250)
Astropecten aranciacus
Red comb sea star
Flower field
Feather star
Warrior mask
The universe in its eyes!Close up of a big eye puffer fish photographed in the wreck dive site of Goa_India_2023
(Canon60, 1/200,f18,iso200)
shortlistedShortlisted!
Mom
shortlistedShortlisted!
A red goby watching over its eggs on a black sea squirt.
Okympus EM1X
Portrait Clownfish
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Next Generation
shortlistedShortlisted!
Olympus EM1X
Bad hair day
drunk
Aspidontus taeniatus
Red Fan worm fully deployed
Red Sea Anemonefish - amphiprion bicinctus
Photo taken in Marsa Alam, Egypt - June 22
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