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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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Soft coral pygmy seahorse. Very rare.. Very lucky...:) by Dray Van Beeck
Soft coral pygmy seahorse. Very rare.. Very lucky...:)
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sea anemone by Abdullah Samman
Sea anemone
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Saudi Arabia
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Yellow seahorse by Borja Muñoz
Yellow seahorse
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Black seahorse hiding from my camera by Borja Muñoz
Black seahorse hiding from my camera
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Portrait of Zeus Faber...taken with Nikon D60 in Easydive... by Francesco Pacienza
Portrait of Zeus Faber...taken with Nikon D60 in Easydive Leo Housing with Nikkor 18-55VR and Nikon SB105 and Sea&Sea YS300 strobes.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Little white Frogfish. One of my favourite encounters. ... by Christian Nielsen
Little white Frogfish.
One of my favourite encounters.
Olympus E330, 50mm Macro, single Ikelite DS125 Strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Canon G10 with an Epoque strobe. Always find these urchin... by Sean Cooper
Canon G10 with an Epoque strobe. Always find these urchins mesmerizing.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Green Moray, Culebra. by Abimael Márquez
Green Moray, Culebra.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Shrimp or Sea star... by Ahmet Yay
Shrimp or Sea star...
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Butterflyfish in the coral sea, Nikonos V 35 mm with clos... by Alan G. Miller
Butterflyfish in the coral sea, Nikonos V 35 mm with close up lens and Nikonos SB 105, shot on Kodachrome 64, and as usual with all my work no cropping.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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A clutch of anemonefish eggs. They have eyes! by Tammy Gibbs
A clutch of anemonefish eggs. They have eyes!
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Hiding. by Erika Antoniazzo
Hiding.
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date posted posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Togo
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Face to Face... Que du bonheur... :O)... by Michel Lonfat
Face to Face... Que du bonheur... :O)...
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date posted posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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olimpus μ1010 by Stavros Paraskevopoulos
olimpus μ1010
49 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Aegean Sea Greece
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Kas 2009 by Timucin Ucar
Kas 2009
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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A picture of a conger that used to live a in tube from a ... by Borja Muñoz
A picture of a conger that used to live a in tube from a ship reck.
Smiled to me and I shuted the picture
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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Juvenile Lionfish by Loay Rayyan
Juvenile Lionfish
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Palestine Territory, occupied
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"Walking Red Sea Walkman" The Red Sea Walkman, a type ... by Henry Jager
"Walking Red Sea Walkman"
The Red Sea Walkman, a type of scorpionfish, uses his claw alike frontfins to walk.
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Egypt
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Ornate Ghost Pipefish by Pete Devereux
Ornate Ghost Pipefish
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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My first yawning frogfish..... by Bernard Maglana
My first yawning frogfish.....
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Jawfish Amazing colour structures (and teeth) Olympus E... by Christian Nielsen
Jawfish
Amazing colour structures (and teeth)
Olympus E330, 35mm Macro, single Ikelite DS125 Strobe
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Hello!! by André Bruchez
Hello!!
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Special crop for a special effect. Picture taken with a ... by Raoul Caprez
Special crop for a special effect.
Picture taken with a Canon G9 in Sharm El Sheickh.
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34 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Taken using a home made 'snoot' to get this kind of selec... by Steve De Neef
Taken using a home made 'snoot' to get this kind of selective lighting.
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date posted posted: Friday, November 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippines
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Seahorse in Lipe by Erika Antoniazzo
Seahorse in Lipe
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date posted posted: Friday, November 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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emperor shrimp over cucumber by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
emperor shrimp over cucumber
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Pin sharp Ripli
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date posted posted: Friday, November 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Olympus 7070 Patima Housing with ys-110 2ea by Jagwang Koo
Olympus 7070
Patima Housing with ys-110 2ea
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date posted posted: Friday, November 20, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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