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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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Close-up of an anemone shot with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1/... by Rickey Ferand
Close-up of an anemone shot with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1/B while diving in Cozumel
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Holaaa, St. Thomas by Abimael Márquez
Holaaa, St. Thomas
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Virgin Islands U.S.
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freshly hatched cuttlefish by Chris Hamilton
freshly hatched cuttlefish
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Fireworm on a Purple gorgonian was taken last spring in t... by Joseph Lamontagne
Fireworm on a Purple gorgonian was taken last spring in turks and caicos islands. Great colour composition on this photo.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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found in Lembeh; D200 by Thomas Lueken
found in Lembeh; D200
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Taken at Komodo using Olympus E330 by Adrian Schokman
Taken at Komodo using Olympus E330
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Indonesia
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Black Lionfish - lots of contrast added by Thomas Dinesen
Black Lionfish - lots of contrast added
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Catfish portrait taken on night dive in the Niagara River... by David Gilchrist
Catfish portrait taken on night dive in the Niagara River, Ontario Canada
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Great Lakes Canada
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rise up by Fatih Sökmen
rise up
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Watch out - I'm looking at you... Que du bonheur... :O)..... by Michel Lonfat
Watch out - I'm looking at you... Que du bonheur... :O)... MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU ON UWP.COM....
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Macro close-up of the colorful patterns of a giant clam; ... by Aj Hiller
Macro close-up of the colorful patterns of a giant clam; shot with Nikon D2X, Micro-Nikkor 105mm, 2 Inon Z-240 strobes and Aquatica Housing
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Koro Sea Fiji
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The eye of the scorpion... by Juan Torres
The eye of the scorpion...
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Angel fish by Borja Muñoz
Angel fish
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Say ahhhhh! Giant moray and cleaner wrasse. One strobe ... by Erich Reboucas
Say ahhhhh!
Giant moray and cleaner wrasse.
One strobe for some dramatic shadows. Macro 50mm.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Anemone fish, Carnatic Wreck, Red Sea. by José Carvalho
Anemone fish, Carnatic Wreck, Red Sea.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Mabul Pipefish. Close up shot of one of the many pipefish... by Daniel Norwood
Mabul Pipefish. Close up shot of one of the many pipefish at Borneo divers house reef.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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I just slipped up on this Red Hind relaxing in a sponge..... by Gordon Harveson
I just slipped up on this Red Hind relaxing in a sponge.......he couldn't be bothered!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Watch out where you put your finger !!!!!!!!!!!!! Well c... by Christian Nielsen
Watch out where you put your finger !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well camouflaged Scorpion Fish in Komodo.
Olympus E330, 50mm macro, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Giant manta and accompanying remora fish; shot on Nikon D... by Aj Hiller
Giant manta and accompanying remora fish; shot on Nikon D2X with AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm in Aquatica housing with one Z-240 strobe
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Koro Sea Fiji
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Female ribbon eel, taken at paradise in Tulamben, Bali. by Daniel Norwood
Female ribbon eel, taken at paradise in Tulamben, Bali.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Purple Coral by Fatih Sökmen
Purple Coral
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Bleny from Thailand...It was about 1.5 cm long..... by Lütfi Tanrıöver
Bleny from Thailand...It was about 1.5 cm long.....
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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A Shrimp Goby having a blue day. by Steve De Neef
A Shrimp Goby having a blue day.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Seraya seahorse. I visited this seahorse on numerous occa... by Daniel Norwood
Seraya seahorse. I visited this seahorse on numerous occasions until he was posing with the bluewater background!
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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" Blenny in a pink house"-Raja Ampat by Richard Goluch
" Blenny in a pink house"-Raja Ampat
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Vermocane by Vittorio Durante
Vermocane
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Portrait of a white giant frogfish, in fact it was rather... by Yves Antoniazzo
Portrait of a white giant frogfish, in fact it was rather small for a giant somtingh like 7cm en lengt 350D/70mm
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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