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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)
Hmmm, what lens have you got in there today? Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 40D & Canon 100 macro
1/125 @ f5 shot with 105mm
One of my shots from my first liveaboard trip with a camera. There were a lot of cuttlefish on this trip and I especially like the colours on this shot.
Divemaster pointing to a small Shortfin Pipefish (Cosmocampus elucens). Note: The fish was not touched. The divemaster put his finger in the picture to show the scale.
The Smile
An Orange Butterflyfish taken in the waters of the Red-Sea... in Egypt... :O) ...
Zebra Lionfish: Taken while exploring bommey during safety stop. Canon S40 Digital
Half-circled Angelfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 40D & Canon 100 macro.
Blue Spotted Boxfish
Toby
Baby cuttle fish
Yellow Stingray-Cozumel-Canon 5D 50 mm
Spotted Box Fish. Usually very shy, this spotted box fish was near a coral head in about 25 feet of water and seemed well disposed to a few photos before ducking into a cavern.
This little threespot dascyllus (dascyllus trimaculatus), at the Wakatobi Marine Preserve in Indonesia was a ham, as she swam in front of my camera and posed for several minutes.
1/250 @ f7.1
I played a game of hide and seek to get this shot. It's a blow to the ego to be outsmarted so many times by an animal smaller than your hand.
A blenny looking after it’s territory, probably Parablennius pilicornis
Solenostomus paradoxus - Ornate ghost pipefish – Harlekin Geisterpfeifenfisch;
North-Sulawesi – Minahasa Lagoon;
Canon EOS 300D in Aquatica Housing
Surprise.....
Peppered Moray or White Moray
took it when I was in Masandam \ Oman
by Olympus C8080
Shy Anemonefish
Proud Clown
Small Octopus (Octopus cyanea, about 4 cm) swims free in the night. Hard to get a focus on it. :-)
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red sea pipefish.
shy clownfish
Why the long face? It is a new year Fuji S5 pro/105 VR
Arrow Blenny (Lucayablennius zingaro) on the hunt in the Cayman Islands. It's fun to watch the little fellows darting out to spear larval shrimp or other tiny morsels of food. Length about 3 cm.
Geometric Moray
Super close up of ghost pipe fish taken at Redang Island... Olympus E-330 + 50mm Macro Lens..
The curious look of a Blenny
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