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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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I have seen this squid at a night dive. Looks like I told... by Roland Bach
I have seen this squid at a night dive. Looks like I told him: "Hands up". Sure, I said nothing like that. :-)
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a nice natural history study Roland
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date posted posted: Monday, March 15, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Fire Worm on the Halliburton wreck by Susan Beerman
Fire Worm on the Halliburton wreck
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Hermit Crab. Taken at Blue Heron Bridge in West Palm Beac... by Eric Walker
Hermit Crab. Taken at Blue Heron Bridge in West Palm Beach. Used a Olympus Stylus 6000 with a Olympus housing ( no strobe ).
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 14, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Bearded scorpionfish comfortably resting on a vase coral ... by Carlo Greco
Bearded scorpionfish comfortably resting on a vase coral with barbells sticking out of the coral edge
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Tiger Moray Wonder the pain it must be to close that mou... by Christian Nielsen
Tiger Moray
Wonder the pain it must be to close that mouth !!
Palm Mar Cave, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Atlantic Spain
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found in Lembeh; D200 by Thomas Lueken
found in Lembeh; D200
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Clown fish up close. by John Miller
Clown fish up close.
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Underwater Beehive..... by Bernard Maglana
Underwater Beehive.....
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 13, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Angel fish by Alex Zeni
Angel fish
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date posted posted: Friday, March 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Guadeloupe
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Parrot fish eye by Carlo Greco
Parrot fish eye
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date posted posted: Friday, March 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Palau
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Toothy Grin. I wanted to fill the shot so crept closer a... by John Hill
Toothy Grin. I wanted to fill the shot so crept closer and closer. This was a large Lizard fish who didn't seem bothered by me until my flash went off. Canon G10 plus Inon Macro Lense.
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date posted posted: Friday, March 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Safety Blanket by Brian Welman
Safety Blanket
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date posted posted: Friday, March 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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found in Lembeh; D200 by Thomas Lueken
found in Lembeh; D200
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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continuing with the squid ... by Abimael Márquez
continuing with the squid ...
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Variation of the rules, Vieques by Abimael Márquez
Variation of the rules, Vieques
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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the teeth of a nor west Blowfish by Dave Baxter
the teeth of a nor west Blowfish
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Look of surprise on that clown fish face D200 /60mm by Yves Antoniazzo
Look of surprise on that clown fish face D200 /60mm
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Soft Coral garden by Carol Cox
Soft Coral garden
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Sudan
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Elusive, Vieques by Abimael Márquez
Elusive, Vieques
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Squid, Vieques by Abimael Márquez
Squid, Vieques
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Whitepatch Razorfish-JP Variation[less than 6 cm long]-Bl... by Richard Goluch
Whitepatch Razorfish-JP Variation[less than 6 cm long]-Black sand-Lembeh
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Coral Grouper close up. by John Miller
Coral Grouper close up.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hitchhiker by Francesca Truter
Hitchhiker
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Cleaner shrimp in bubble coral. Taken with Canon Rebel X... by Kevin Monfreda
Cleaner shrimp in bubble coral. Taken with Canon Rebel XT in Ikelite housing.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Sea of Japan Japan
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fire worm by Alex Zeni
fire worm
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Guadeloupe
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Caribbean Squid, Vieques, P.R. by Abimael Márquez
Caribbean Squid, Vieques, P.R.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Coral fish looking intently. by John Miller
Coral fish looking intently.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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