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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - swimming

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Smaller subjects typically 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5cm) shot on macro settings or with macro equipment that are in MID WATER not touching anything (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
What's for lunch Fuji S5pro/105 VR
Banggai cardinal
Weedy Seadragon & Diver
Ornate Ghost Pipefish with white chrinoid
There were 9 of these juvenile squid on the previous dive but I found only 6 a couple of days later... Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm
Oval-spot Butterflyfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D, Canon 100 macro & Canon 500D close-up lens
Couple of robust ghost pipefish
"Clark's Anemonefish" met at Dauin, Philippines (50mm macro)
hunting - A small cardinalfish (Apogon neotus) is hunting a shrimp. The fish is about 15mm long. Nikon D300, 105mm, Ikelite, 2xDS125
Sorry got to run!... Fuji S5 pro/ 60mm
2 green robust ghostpipefishes taken in lembeh strait with a special technique of flashing.
Slender Filefish - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D, EF-S 60mm
Face to face with a Priacanthus Arenatus - A Bigeye Fish shoot in a small cave near Marsa Shagra.
Friendly Clownfish, taken with my Conon S70 and CloseUp Lens and INON strobe Z240
Blue Tang - I took this image on a dive on Pageant Beach Reef in Grand Cayman. I used an Olympus 790 SW with the built in flash. The exposure was f/5 at 125 of second, ISO of 160.
Flamboyant cuttlefish I spotted near the Twin Rocks Marine Sanctuary in Anilao, Batangas
Clownfish macro
Different Sizes
School 2
Sergeant Major. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D, Canon 100 macro & Canon 500D dioptre.
1/60 at f16
Usually these French Angel Fish are very skittish but after ten minutes or so they got used to me and as they were really interested in eating a sponge they kept coming back to me. I settled down for a long wait and finally was rewarded.
School
Bobtail Squid
Broad-nosed pipefish PORTRAIT
bigeye emperor (monotaxis grandoculis) taken in Na'ama Bay.
Fishs - Chromis chromis
1/250 at f10
45 minutes of lying in the sand in one 3 foot section of reef and I finally got this shot. I thought my subject was pretty patient too....
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