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The subject is looking directly into the camera lens (must show at least 2 eyes)

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A youngster of any species… fish, invertebrates, air-breathers, etc.

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Flounder, angelfish, filefish, butterflyfish, sunfish, triggerfish, etc.  It just needs to have a pronounced flat profile and be a FISH.

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Just like it says… look it up in the book (crabs, shrimp, lobsters, barnacles, etc.).  When in doubt… Wikipedia can help you out.

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Anything that is characterized by long, thin lines. Can be fish, invertebrates, or even non-living.

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Just like it says.  Nudibranchs, pleurobranchs, flatworms, Christmastree worms, bristle worms, etc.

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Just like it says. To qualify, an anemone must be in the shot.  The "things" (clownfish, crabs, etc) are optional.

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Seafans and things that live in and around them. The "things" need to be commonly associated with seafans, not just chance encounters.  Examples: crinoids, pygmy seahorses, fan crabs, longnose hawkfish, flamingo tongues, etc.

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Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians (i.e., turtles, dugongs, aquatic iguanas, whales, dolphins, people, walruses, polar bears, diving birds, snakes, sea lions, etc).  Shots must be taken underwater.

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The odd, the ugly, the strange & misshapen.  Angelfish, dolphins, tuna, etc. need not apply.

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Classic W/A shots.  Must be taken with wide angle lenses or zooms set a wide angle.  Images can be close-focus/wide-angle shots, also.

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Open category for Novice, Intermediate, & Advanced.  Creative category is for all entrants and "anything goes" (3 images maximum per category). Any image taken underwater is allowed in each of the first 3 categories. This includes images that have placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, in this year’s monthly contests. Please note that 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place winners in Best of
HUPS are not eligible for any HUPS contest in following years. Anyone is allowed to enter in the Creative category. It is basically a free ride for your creative juices. Photoshop away (or any other digital manipulation program). Cut-and-paste parts of one image into another, distort, change color or texture, repeat, invert, rotate, etc. The only requirements are that all elements of the image must have been photographed or created by the entrant and the primary focus
should be related to underwater photography. Non-underwater elements are allowed in the images for humor or creative impact as long as you took the photo.