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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, I'm really curious about your camera....
C-7070 with Inon strobe.
With my camera I needed to get so very close to the subject to be able to take this shot I had to chase this ghostpipefish around a bit before I managed to take its picture.
Olympus C-5050 with an inon strobe.
Mimic or Wonderpus? Taken on a dusk dive in Anilao, Batangas. Saw this Octopus at the end of a dive and changed tanks to take pictures!
"Anemonefish" The biggest variation of anemonefish I've ever seen in Bacuit Bay, El Nido, The Philippines. Photo taken with Olympus C7070 and Ikelite Strobe DS125
Octopus taken at Sharks Observatory, Ras Mohamed Park with Olympus Evolt 300
These are great looking shrimp. Just a pity they're so small, it's hard to get a good shot.
Olumpus C-7070 camera with Inon strobe.
Fresh water goby. River Lune. Cumbria.
60mm.
Staredown. This Whitespotted Toby took a sec to chekc me out during the egg feeding frenzy surrounding. 1/1000 sec, Single Strobe, Double Inon closeups.
A little bit of photoshop. Normally I don't like to "play" with my images, but I think sometimes it's possible to obtain interesting results with it. Frame and illumination are original.
Medusa at the Divesite Gangaro North near the surface.
This Redlipped Blennie just has "cute" all over it.
FRAMED! Long snout butterfly fish. Another in my 'Fish Portraits from Around the World. I rather enjoyed the way it was framed by the table coral. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
Sea Horse, Paradise Reef cozumel Mexico, Cannon s-50
Black banded butterflyfish at Aguadilla.
Photo was taken at Sharks bay Sinai, with a sony dsc p10.
Spiny squat lobster. St Abbs, Scotland.
60mm with twin flash guns.
Love Birds?
Clownfish taken at Pinkies Wall, Sharm el Sheikh with Nikon Coolpix 4300
On the theme of Batfish
Caught in the Spotlight
The foto is taken between the island of pasman and zut in croatia. Divesite is called Misi or Borans Wreck
Slipper (or spanish) lobster near Crocodile Rock on Gozo
Picture taken at Maeda Point, 30 meters off shore; Okinawa, Japan. Sea & Sea DG-750G, no external strobe or additional lens used.
the foto is taken in the Nationalpark Telascica Croatia.
glassfish
"Maybe if I keep still, he won't see me...."
Mating mandarin fish taken at dusk on Paradise dive site in Mabul.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Super behavior shot Jean-Philippe. Could have cropped it closer?
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