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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
Bat-time for a Bat-family.
The reason for the Macro-Close-Up category is because it was taken with a macro 50mm lens..
Twins
Padded Sculpin hiding in seaweed.
In your face!
Canon 50D, 60mm, f11, 1/30, ISO100
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This yellow coney was not as shy as most I have encountered. Love that bright yellow!
Mantis Shrimp just came out from black hole ..
slizoun
sweet home
I must have spent 45 minutes waiting for the eggs to show up, but if they're in there, I couldn't see em. Managed to also get some video of him doing some housekeeping, too. How can he be spitting sand if he's keeping eggs in there??
Spotted Moray Gymnothorax moringa
In Black and Yellow
Black morray taken in the Cousteau Marine Park in Guadeloupe.
...
/ arabesque greenling
Nudi with my lens berried to get down low.
Pederson cleaner shrimp taken with Nikon D50, 105MM. Off South Florida coast in Palm Beach County.
Double trouble
A fish sleep in the night.
Blend in
Grumpy
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Antennarius hispidus (shaggy frogfish)
Green Turtle Portrait
plz
Octopus on a night dive
A little Secretary Blenny, Acanthemblemaria maria, Tube Blennies. Maybe it should be a Viking Blenny. Great Cirri!
To notice the eyes of the gastropod (Phalium granulatum).
Amphioctopus marginatus (coconut octopus)
coconut octopus
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