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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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Beautiful Porcelain Crab in it's anemone in Lembeh Strait... by Michel Lonfat
Beautiful Porcelain Crab in it's anemone in Lembeh Strait... Que du bonheur... ;O)...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Found this mantis shrimp in Tinggo, Olanggo Island, Cebu.... by Oliver Ko
Found this mantis shrimp in Tinggo, Olanggo Island, Cebu. Canon 450D with Sea & Sea Housing, 100mm macro lens with one Inon Z-240 strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Crab close by Karl Hodgkins
Crab close
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Gesticulating squid.. by Sven Tramaux
Gesticulating squid..
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Lionfish by Abimael Márquez
Lionfish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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orang otan crab those hairs really make it difficult to f... by Rory Ferguson
orang otan crab those hairs really make it difficult to focus !!!
D300s with 105 lens, single D.2000 strobe iso 800 shutter 100 f.22 any hints or advice welcomed
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Clown snake eel lurking in the sand near Tulamben, Bali. ... by Michael Gallagher
Clown snake eel lurking in the sand near Tulamben, Bali. Shot lit by narrow torch beam rather than strobes.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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The man on the scene :-)) by Rico Besserdich
The man on the scene :-))
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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North Cyprus / İskele by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus / İskele
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Solenostomus paradoxus in Dauin :-D by Daniel Strub
Solenostomus paradoxus in Dauin big grin
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Tubed Peppermint Shrimp. Cayman Brac. 35 fsw by William Goodwin
Tubed Peppermint Shrimp. Cayman Brac. 35 fsw
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Another one from the NUPG splash in. Canon G11, canon hou... by Tom Ashton
Another one from the NUPG splash in. Canon G11, canon housing, ys110 strobe with snoot.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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juvenile platax orbicularis by Alex Varani
juvenile platax orbicularis
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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this is an arrow crab that I saw while diving. I took it ... by Brad Stone
this is an arrow crab that I saw while diving. I took it with a macro setting on a point and shoot canon digital camera. Much to my surprise it turned out great
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Aruba
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Taken during the NUPG splash-in photography contest in No... by Tom Ashton
Taken during the NUPG splash-in photography contest in North Wales. I used a home made snoot on my s&s ys110. Canon G11, canon housing.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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blue ringed octopus by Birgul Erken
blue ringed octopus
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Java Sea Papua New Guinea
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A beautiful batfish swimming by... by Sven Tramaux
A beautiful batfish swimming by...
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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crab by Peter Foulds
crab
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Madagascar
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No cropping or photoshop at all ; p Common Lionfish at La... by Chinchin Law
No cropping or photoshop at all ; p Common Lionfish at Layang-Layang, East M'sia
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Dangerous job being a cleaner shrimp in this environment,... by Christian Nielsen
Dangerous job being a cleaner shrimp in this environment, or maybe not. Honeycomb moray in Seraya, Bali. Olympus E330, 50mm macro, 2 Ikelite DS 125 strobes.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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i don't know the name of the fish.Fish looks like posing ... by John Paul Chua
i don't know the name of the fish.Fish looks like posing on top of a small coral looking at my camera (Canon G10 w/canon housing and Ikelite AF35 strobes). Took the picture around 10am in Layag-layag Bahura divesite in Anilao, Batangas
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Ornate ghost pipefish portrait, taken whilst muck diving ... by Michael Gallagher
Ornate ghost pipefish portrait, taken whilst muck diving at night in Milne Bay, PNG
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Papua New Guinea
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Strike a pose! by Andres L-M_larraz
Strike a pose!
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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A friendly cuttlefish.. by Sven Tramaux
A friendly cuttlefish..
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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yellowface pikeblenny by Matt Sullivan
yellowface pikeblenny
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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..detail by Veronika Matějková
..detail
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Croatia
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The Old Soft Shoe. Came across an Octopus hiding out in ... by Jeri Curley
The Old Soft Shoe. Came across an Octopus hiding out in an old shoe at Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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