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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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Cuttlefish by J. Daniel Horovatin
Cuttlefish
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Portrait of a Coral Cod ( Cephalopholis miniata) by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of a Coral Cod ( Cephalopholis miniata)
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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... gobby ... :-D by Daniel Strub
... gobby ... big grin
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 13, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Pier piling. Hood Canal, Puget Sound. Olympus SP350 and... by Bill Arle
Pier piling. Hood Canal, Puget Sound. Olympus SP350 and Inon wide angle lens.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: United States
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Jorunna Funebris by J. Daniel Horovatin
Jorunna Funebris
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Reef Eater. A greent turtle breaks up the reef off Maui, ... by Douglas Klug
Reef Eater. A greent turtle breaks up the reef off Maui, Hawaii. Shot with a Canon Digital Rebel and 60mm f/2.8 lens in an Ikelite Housing using natural light.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Green Moray, North Leeward coast of St. Vincent. by Kay Wilson
Green Moray, North Leeward coast of St. Vincent.
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
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date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Sleeping Taeniura lymna :-) by Raoul Caprez
Sleeping Taeniura lymna :-)
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A scool of soldierfish Myripristis xantacrus. by Alberto Romeo
A scool of soldierfish Myripristis xantacrus.
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Tired scorpionfish... Marsa Alam. Canon G10 & Inon D2000. by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Tired scorpionfish... Marsa Alam. Canon G10 & Inon D2000.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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little crop due to rotation :) by Cem Gazivekili
little crop due to rotation smile
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Malaysia
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Red-mouthed Goby - Gobius cruentatus - Sesimbra/Portugal ... by José Carvalho
Red-mouthed Goby - Gobius cruentatus - Sesimbra/Portugal - Nikkor 105mm, 1/60s, f/18, ISO 200.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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following the advice of the late great Jim church who sai... by Terry Dunbar
following the advice of the late great Jim church who said" find some interesting negative space and then wait for a subject" and this is what I got
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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hippocampus bargibanti by Jan Maringka
hippocampus bargibanti
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Portrait of Surgeon fish ( Acanthurus sohal) by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of Surgeon fish ( Acanthurus sohal)
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
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Portrait of a Giant Moray Gymnothorax javanicus by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of a Giant Moray Gymnothorax javanicus
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Solenostomus paradoxus by Miro Polensek
Solenostomus paradoxus
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date posted posted: Friday, December 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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host goby on a green brain (?) coral ... by Daniel Strub
host goby on a green brain (?) coral ...
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25 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
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Red Frills (rhinopias aphanes) Portrait image of a Red La... by David Henshaw
Red Frills (rhinopias aphanes) Portrait image of a Red Lacy Scorpoinfish
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Egg Cup (Opistognathus latitabundus) Blotched Jawfish wit... by David Henshaw
Egg Cup (Opistognathus latitabundus) Blotched Jawfish with eggs
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36 Votes
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Proud parents to be ! by Terry Dunbar
Proud parents to be !
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Editor's Comment
we did get a bit jaded by pygmy seahorses so I only point out exceptional ones like this now
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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frogfish by Miro Polensek
frogfish
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Portrait of a Bannerfish "Heniochus intermedius" by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of a Bannerfish "Heniochus intermedius"
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
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date posted location: Red Sea Jordan
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Seaweed blenny, in yellow tube sponge. Sea and sea DX1G c... by Kay Wilson
Seaweed blenny, in yellow tube sponge. Sea and sea DX1G compact camera, wide angle wet lens, YS110a strobe.
17 Votes
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Whip coral goby, shot with one strobe put behind the goby. by Steve De Neef
Whip coral goby, shot with one strobe put behind the goby.
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Hood Canal, Puget Sound. Olympus SP350 and Inon wide ang... by Bill Arle
Hood Canal, Puget Sound. Olympus SP350 and Inon wide angle lens
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: United States
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A harliquin shrimp up close. No cropping. by Tammy Gibbs
A harliquin shrimp up close. No cropping.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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