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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
D300, 60mm AF-S, YS-110a by Kay Burn Lim
D300, 60mm AF-S, YS-110a
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Does anybody know what this is? Found on a wreck at 25m i... by Sharon English
Does anybody know what this is? Found on a wreck at 25m in warm water. Never seen anything like it. Not sure if it is coral, nudi, flatworm or alien!
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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Porcelain crab feeding, somewhere in the muck.... by Sam Taylor
Porcelain crab feeding, somewhere in the muck....
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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The most beautiful ugly-face stonefish ever ...so colourf... by Stapatt Sankosik
The most beautiful ugly-face stonefish ever ...so colourful and clean.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Night by Sergiy Glushchenko
Night
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Ornate Friends. Two of a group of three Ornate Ghost Pipe... by Karl Marchant
Ornate Friends. Two of a group of three Ornate Ghost Pipefish @ Koh Haa, near Koh Lanta.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Narrow-lined puffer (Arothron manilensis) hiding. Nikon D... by Michael Henke
Narrow-lined puffer (Arothron manilensis) hiding. Nikon D300, 105mm
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Nemos from Dauin, Philippines. by Jim Chambers
Nemos from Dauin, Philippines.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Funny couple ... by Daniel Strub
Funny couple ...
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Can you believe this Juvenile Toby is as big as a finger ... by Victor Tabernero
Can you believe this Juvenile Toby is as big as a finger nail? What a wondeful World!!!
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Coral worm posing by Joz Grobbelaar
Coral worm posing
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Scarlet Frogfish in Lembeh Straight by Stapatt Sankosik
Scarlet Frogfish in Lembeh Straight
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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A eel watching me.. Casio Exilim z 1200 by Andrew Macleod
A eel watching me.. Casio Exilim z 1200
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date posted posted: Friday, January 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) with Nikon D300, 105mm by Michael Henke
Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) with Nikon D300, 105mm

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I love the Paisley pattern on this guy
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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A Yellow Frog Fish beneath the downtown pier,Kralendijk ,... by Patrick Smith
A Yellow Frog Fish beneath the downtown pier,Kralendijk , Bonaire. NA .
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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a tiny crab living on a starfish by Geoff Spiby
a tiny crab living on a starfish
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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"Inside the Tunicate" - Banta Island, Komodo (Canon G9, I... by Marco Waagmeester
"Inside the Tunicate" - Banta Island, Komodo (Canon G9, Inon D2000w, UCL165)
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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crown butterfly fish by John Naylor
crown butterfly fish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Tiger Grouper being cleaned by Cleaner Gobies on Little C... by Deborah Chambers
Tiger Grouper being cleaned by Cleaner Gobies on Little Cayman Island.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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This Scorpionfish is a colorful example of the surroundi... by Malia Beggs
This Scorpionfish is a colorful example of the surrounding corals it inhabits.. Used Canon A650IS.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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A Whip Coral Xeno Crab. Just of the Liberty Wreck in Tula... by Chad Ordelheide
A Whip Coral Xeno Crab. Just of the Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, Bali. Canon A640
36 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Red eyed crab in a barrel sponge - Gili Lawa Laut, Komodo... by Marco Waagmeester
Red eyed crab in a barrel sponge - Gili Lawa Laut, Komodo (Canon G9, Inon D2000w, UCL165)
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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A hydriod seen from beneath by Martin Dalsaso
A hydriod seen from beneath
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Northern Mariana Islands
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Shrimp by Sharon English
Shrimp
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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A very friendly octopus on the house reef at Buddy Dive R... by Patrick Smith
A very friendly octopus on the house reef at Buddy Dive Resort.Bonaire, N.A.
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Eriphia verrucosa(Pagur) by Ivelin Krastev
Eriphia verrucosa(Pagur)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Black Sea Bulgaria
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Red Scorpionfish by Vittorio Durante
Red Scorpionfish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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