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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
Hide & Seek by James Dawson
Hide & Seek
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date posted posted: Monday, November 30, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Ghostpipefish by Holger Koch
Ghostpipefish
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13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 30, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Portrait of a mediterranean "flying fish" Dactylopterus... by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of a mediterranean "flying fish" Dactylopterus volitans
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date posted posted: Monday, November 30, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Transparent Lobster on Anemone, picture taken at sunset by Loay Rayyan
Transparent Lobster on Anemone, picture taken at sunset
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 29, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Palestine Territory, occupied
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this is a sculpin taken at keystone. the camera that was ... by Stephen Sanders
this is a sculpin taken at keystone. the camera that was used was a sea and sea dx1200.
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 29, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: North Sea United States
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Sleepy? by Bernard Maglana
Sleepy?
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 29, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Picture taken in Sharm El Sheikh with a Canon G9. by Raoul Caprez
Picture taken in Sharm El Sheikh with a Canon G9.
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 29, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Scorpaena scrofa by Antonio Franco
Scorpaena scrofa
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 28, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Italy
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Portrait of a jellyfish Cassiopea Mediterranea "Cotylorhi... by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of a jellyfish Cassiopea Mediterranea "Cotylorhiza tuberculata"
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 28, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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So nice during the night ! by Raoul Caprez
So nice during the night !
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 28, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Soft coral pygmy seahorse 2 . Very rare...Very lucky... by Dray Van Beeck
Soft coral pygmy seahorse 2 . Very rare...Very lucky...
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date posted posted: Friday, November 27, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Night dive cameo taken with torchlight as forgot to recha... by Pete Devereux
Night dive cameo taken with torchlight as forgot to recharge strobe batteries!
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 27, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Portrait of sea horse taken in the Perhentian island Mala... by Yves Antoniazzo
Portrait of sea horse taken in the Perhentian island Malaysia, sometime back now D200/105 VR
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18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Thanksgiving dinner... by Andres L-M_larraz
Thanksgiving dinner...
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Thanksgiving... by Andres L-M_larraz
Thanksgiving...
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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A little Goby in "l'Etang de Thau" in the south of France... by Michel Lonfat
A little Goby in "l'Etang de Thau" in the south of France... Que du bonheur... :O)...
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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FishEye by Antonio Franco
FishEye
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Italy
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Portrait of the jellyfish "Pelagia noctiluca" and his del... by Alberto Romeo
Portrait of the jellyfish "Pelagia noctiluca" and his delicate and dangerous tentacles.
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Jellyfish, taken off the Gold Coast of Australia with a N... by Alan G. Miller
Jellyfish, taken off the Gold Coast of Australia with a Nikonos V, 35 mm with a close up lens, Nikonos SB 105 on Kodachrome 64, and as usual no cropping.......
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Pacific Australia
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Blenny, Parablennius gattorugine. Calanques de Cassis. Ca... by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Blenny, Parablennius gattorugine. Calanques de Cassis. Canon G10 & Inon D2000.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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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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22 Votes
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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
28 Votes
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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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