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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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Sandiver, Sugar Pier, Aguadilla, P.R. by Abimael Márquez
Sandiver, Sugar Pier, Aguadilla, P.R.
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date posted posted: Monday, February 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca; it is very urticant. Note th... by Alberto Romeo
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca; it is very urticant. Note the pink genitalia inside the umbrella.
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Tall fin Batfish (Platax teira), Amed, Bali by Michel De Ruyck
Tall fin Batfish (Platax teira), Amed, Bali
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date posted posted: Monday, February 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Coral... a hand held strobe pointing down the tube to giv... by Andrew Macleod
Coral... a hand held strobe pointing down the tube to give it luminescence... Casio exilim zx 1200
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date posted posted: Monday, February 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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hairy clam by Andres Larraz
hairy clam
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Yellow Mouth Eel Masandam \ Oman by Olympus C8080 WZ wi... by Mohammed Al Hamood
Yellow Mouth Eel
Masandam \ Oman by Olympus C8080 WZ without strobes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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batfish/spadefish 60mm canon 350D by Stew Smith
batfish/spadefish 60mm canon 350D
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Moray - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm; single DS-125 by Alan Lyall
Moray - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm; single DS-125
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Yellow boxfish close-up Fuji S5 Pro/105 VR by Yves Antoniazzo
Yellow boxfish close-up Fuji S5 Pro/105 VR
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Snakefish (Trachinocephalus myops) waiting for food. by Michael Henke
Snakefish (Trachinocephalus myops) waiting for food.
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Trigla by Vittorio Durante
Trigla
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Freshwater Snail - Limnée auriculaire (Lymnaea auriculari... by Michel Lonfat
Freshwater Snail - Limnée auriculaire (Lymnaea auricularia)... Juste like the eyes they have... Que du bonheur... :O)...
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Switzerland
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White spotted filefish - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60... by Alan Lyall
White spotted filefish - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm; single DS-125
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Giant Moray by Sean Cooper
Giant Moray
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date posted posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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found in Mabul; D200 by Thomas Lueken
found in Mabul; D200
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date posted posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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Cockatoo waspfish portrait - Ablabys taenionotus. D300, ... by Kay Burn Lim
Cockatoo waspfish portrait - Ablabys taenionotus.
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
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date posted posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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the subject is a crab on a rock in san juans, Washington.... by Stephen Sanders
the subject is a crab on a rock in san juans, Washington. the subject was taken by a sea & sea.
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic United States
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Painted comber (serranus scriba) taken in Portofino by Daniel Strub
Painted comber (serranus scriba) taken in Portofino
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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some cleaning going on. 60mm macro by Stew Smith
some cleaning going on. 60mm macro
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Peacock Mantis Shrimp by Michel De Ruyck
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Gurnard spreading it's wings fins? by Joz Grobbelaar
Gurnard spreading it's wings fins?
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Frogfish-Bonaire-Canon 5D 100 mm macro by Richard Goluch
Frogfish-Bonaire-Canon 5D 100 mm macro
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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I just know that it is a moray eel but that's about all I... by Yves Antoniazzo
I just know that it is a moray eel but that's about all I can tell you about this creature (look more like a dinosaur than a fish to me) Fuji S5 pro/105 VR
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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A very red hermit crab under the Ammo Jetty, Perth Wester... by Tammy Gibbs
A very red hermit crab under the Ammo Jetty, Perth Western Australia
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Picture taken during a dive in the Portofino Sanctuary. I... by Daniel Strub
Picture taken during a dive in the Portofino Sanctuary. It's an egg of a Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris ) bound to a red gorgonia. During that dive (La Torre) we dove through a canyon where every second gorgonia had an egg on it. Was amazing :-))
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Seahorse in the seagrass. Nuweiba, Egypt. by Erich Reboucas
Seahorse in the seagrass.
Nuweiba, Egypt.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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SILUETE.. Man o'war by Andres Larraz
SILUETE..
Man o'war
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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