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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)
Ecrevisse du Lac Léman - Suisse
Fireworm Bonaire October 2004
Triglia - Mar Mediterraneo, Italy-
NIKONOS III - macro 1:1
Male Cuckoo Wrasse. Taken in Penzance,Cornwall with a Nikon D100
Pixy Hawkfish.North Maalhosmadulu Atoll,Maldives.S2pro,60mm macro.
My Space
Sipadan D70 60mm Macro
"Cheek to Cheek" - Mating Mandarins
Really purple! Taken in Fiji w/Nikon N90s, Aquatica housing and Ike Substrobe 200.
These true clown anemonefish were really hamming it up for the camera. I photographed this pair in their anemone on Australia's Great Barrier Reef using a Nikon N50 in an Ikelite housing with dual Ikelite 50 substrobes.
Cuttlefish; Albatross Pass, NIP, PNG. Houised nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens
Let's play hide and seek.
Close-up of a friendly octopus taken at Phil Foster Park in West Palm Beach, FL.
Yucatanicus: Bonaire, NA Housed Nikon F, 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens
A perfect little tenent at home on the reef.On a resent trip to North Maalhosmadulu Atoll in the Maldives.Photo taken with a Fuji S2pro in a sea-sea housing with twin ys-90 autos and a nikon 60mm macro lens.
Big French Angel, Curacao, D-100, Ikelike Housing
Trumpetfish taken Bonaire Nikon cp 5000
This squid in French Cay (TCI), amazingly, allowed me to hang out for 20 minutes! His color changed everytime I fired the strobes. I'm not sure, but I think he found me more interesting! Taken with EOS Rebel Digital/Aquatica/100mm macro/dual DS125s
Small Clownfish in a large anemone. Tetra housin. Olympus 4000 + macro lens.
I used a slow shutter speed here to try and show the speed a Lionfish can move at
I took this picture of an adorable Longsnout Seahorse at a favaorite dive spot in West Palm Beach, FL.
Photo taken in Bunaken with a Nikon F90X in an Underwave Igloo housing
Scrawled Filefish, Palau
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This portrait fills the frame very nicely
A tiny (2 in., max) blue chromis shot at French Cay in Turks & Caicos. If he only understood that all I wanted was a few photographs he wouldn’t have exhausted himself trying to attack me! Canon Rebel Digital,100mm macro lens,Aquatica A300,Ikelite 125s
Lionfish, Red Sea, Nikonos V, 28 mm+close-up lens
Actually there were two of these Cardinals kissing each other, but, I took too long to get the focus correct! So only one left!
Redlip Batfish. Photograph taken during a night dive in Wolf island,Galapagos.
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