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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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The eye of a Scorpion fish, shot with a Canon 350D and Ca... by Rene Oude Avenhuis
The eye of a Scorpion fish, shot with a Canon 350D and Canon 60mm Macrolens
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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Tiny filefish, at first i thought it was a seahorse by Bob Jeannetti
Tiny filefish, at first i thought it was a seahorse
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Spiny lobster close up by Bob Jeannetti
Spiny lobster close up
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Flamingo Tongue shells eating soft corals by Rene Oude Avenhuis
Flamingo Tongue shells eating soft corals
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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North Cyprus 2008 by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus 2008
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Lionfish closeup by Rico Besserdich
Lionfish closeup
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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I shot This photo in the Hurgada Red sea, Please if any o... by Hisham Elshafie
I shot This photo in the Hurgada Red sea, Please if any one know the name of the fish let me know
I Bleave it's from the Halichoeres species, and as per Michael Gallagher, in Australia they call these fish "slingjaw wrasse"
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Soft... by Sergiy Glushchenko
Soft...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Nudibranch in Dumaguete off of Atlantis Resort by Jeffrey Smith
Nudibranch in Dumaguete off of Atlantis Resort
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Philippines
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Deep by Bob Jeannetti
Deep
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Parapandalus narval (cropped) by Vittorio Durante
Parapandalus narval (cropped)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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This little guy just wanted his pic taken. You just got t... by Graeme Cole
This little guy just wanted his pic taken. You just got to love the expression on his face. one of my favorites.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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North Cyprus 2010 by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus 2010
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Taenianotus triacanthus by Alex Varani
Taenianotus triacanthus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Peppered moray found near Marsa Alam. by Charly Kotnik
Peppered moray found near Marsa Alam.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Two Fishs by Hisham Elshafie
Two Fishs
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hidden. Octupus vulgaris-Olympus c-7070 and ys 60 strob. by Carlos Ernesto
Hidden. Octupus vulgaris-Olympus c-7070 and ys 60 strob.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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Pair of banded coarl shrimp by Bob Jeannetti
Pair of banded coarl shrimp
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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We were waiting near a cleaning station for some mantas t... by Jackie Campbell
We were waiting near a cleaning station for some mantas to stop by......meanwhile scores of other fish were getting cleaned including this moray smile
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Rock fish, no flash by Robert Kuzel
Rock fish, no flash
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Costa Rica
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Cassiopeia jellyfish by Ryan Marchese
Cassiopeia jellyfish
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Giant Frog Fish by Ron Caswell
Giant Frog Fish
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Seahorse by Alex Zeni
Seahorse
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Guadeloupe
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In may the black goby is laying eggs. Then they are much ... by Silvia Waajen
In may the black goby is laying eggs. Then they are much easyer to fotograph. This was a try out fot a Dutch photocontest. The picture was taken in the Grevelingenmeer, a closed sea arm of the Northsea.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
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date posted location: North Sea Netherlands
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Little Symbiotic Goby on a Wip Coral... One of my favorit... by Michel Lonfat
Little Symbiotic Goby on a Wip Coral... One of my favorite subject... C'est que du bonheur... :O)...
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date posted posted: Monday, December 6, 2010
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date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Masked Goby by Ryan Marchese
Masked Goby
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Green Moray by Bob Jeannetti
Green Moray
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010
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