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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
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder by Wijnand Plekker
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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date posted posted: Monday, May 2, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Mauritius Tube worm at 14metres Mauritius Underwater Phot... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Mauritius Tube worm at 14metres Mauritius Underwater Photographer
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date posted posted: Monday, May 2, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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Octopus, at Gobal Island Dive Site by Hisham Elshafie
Octopus, at Gobal Island Dive Site
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date posted posted: Monday, May 2, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Here's a Hawaiian white spotted toby with some big sad bl... by Stuart Ganz
Here's a Hawaiian white spotted toby with some big sad blue green eyes.
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date posted posted: Monday, May 2, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Pholis Gunnelus by Frank Michels
Pholis Gunnelus
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Baltic Sea Germany
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Hey Dude by Henrik Gram Rasmussen
Hey Dude
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Sweden
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Can somebody help me? by J. Daniel Horovatin
Can somebody help me?
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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Madeira rockfish patiently posing in the seabed. The phot... by Jorge Sorial
Madeira rockfish patiently posing in the seabed. The photograph hasn't been cropped. Nikon D300 with 105mm Nikon lens in a Sea&Sea housing and 2 Inon Z240 strobes (f22; 1/250s; ISO 200)
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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2 seaslugs "flabellina affinis" caught in their love act.... by Jorge Sorial
2 seaslugs "flabellina affinis" caught in their love act. Reproduction usually occurs during the months of may and june. Nikon D300 with 105mm Nikon lens in a Sea&Sea housing and 2 Inon Z240 strobes (f22; 1/250s; ISO 200)
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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the EYE :-D by Daniel Strub
the EYE big grin
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Beautiful colored parrot fish during a night dive :-D by Daniel Strub
Beautiful colored parrot fish during a night dive big grin
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23 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A little blenny sex ! and it was over so quick. Or maybe ... by John Roach
A little blenny sex ! and it was over so quick. Or maybe it is sex with the secretary. Secretary Blenny (Acanthemblemaria maria ) Saba N.A. Custom House Ladder
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 30, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Snake eel in Marsa Nakari's house reef :-D by Daniel Strub
Snake eel in Marsa Nakari's house reef big grin
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date posted posted: Friday, April 29, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Night dive in Marsa Nakari :-D - the eye of a flute fish by Daniel Strub
Night dive in Marsa Nakari big grin - the eye of a flute fish
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date posted posted: Friday, April 29, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Octupus Mauritius- Balaclava Mauritius Underwater Photo... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Octupus Mauritius- Balaclava
Mauritius Underwater Photography
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 29, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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With an attitude of a Jack Russell... ferocious Secretar... by John Roach
With an attitude of a Jack Russell... ferocious
Secretary blenny
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Happy Balloonfish by Abimael Márquez
Happy Balloonfish
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Octopus at Aqaba Bay by Wiljo Jonsson
Octopus at Aqaba Bay
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Shot on A Shipwreck in Mauritius Island,the Azuma Maru B... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Shot on A Shipwreck in Mauritius Island,the Azuma Maru
Box Fish Mauritius Canon 7D
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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Pajama Squid strutting it's stuff at the Pipeline, NB. by Chad Ordelheide
Pajama Squid strutting it's stuff at the Pipeline, NB.
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18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Australia
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This Nidi was the size of my thumb. Likely a type of juve... by J. Daniel Horovatin
This Nidi was the size of my thumb. Likely a type of juvenile Sea Lemon. Actual photo only cropped in PhotoShop Elements.
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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veined octopus_Amphioctopus marginatus by Mathieu Foulquié
veined octopus_Amphioctopus marginatus
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Periclemenes cornutus by Mathieu Foulquié
Periclemenes cornutus
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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Sand Anemone close-up on night dive at Bari Reef. by Lisa Hinderlider
Sand Anemone close-up on night dive at Bari Reef.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Sand Diver by Abimael Márquez
Sand Diver
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Underwater Mauritius Triggerfish at a dive site called Wa... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Underwater Mauritius Triggerfish at a dive site called Water Lilly North West Mauritius
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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Ringtail Cardinal Fish brooding eggs in its mouth by Els Van Den Borre
Ringtail Cardinal Fish brooding eggs in its mouth
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52 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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