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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)
Pair of gray angelfish swim towards a squirrelfish. Taken at 35 feet in Puerto Rico with a Canon A-20.
This queen parrotfish photo was taken in Grand Cayman at 50 feet with a housed Canon A-40.
This Gray Angelfish photo was taken at about 50 feet in the waters off of Puerto Rico
Conger Eel; Roatan; Housed Nikon F, 55mm Auto Micro Nikkor Lens
White-belly damsel. The is a huge shutter delay on my digital camera, so I had some luck (Ras Mohammed, Egypt).
Scorpionfish/Trumpetfish; Roatan; Housed Nikon F, 55 Auto Micro Nikkor Lens
Puffers are dangerous? Housed Nikon 8008S off the Big Island of Hawaii
Love story, Black Sea, Nikonos V, 35mm, macro 1:3
False anemonefish in anemone tentacles. Manado. Nikon F90x with ringflash
Agua Viva em Arraial do Cabo-RJ - Brasil, Nikonos V com Tubo de Extensão 1:1
Manado, Indonesia, 105mm lens and two flashguns. Pink Anemonefish and anemone
Olive Sea Snake; Loloata Island, PNG; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Auto Micro Nikkor Lens

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Saipan Grotto
Murena - Amantea (Cosenza - Italy). Nikon F801s + AF-D 105 mm in Underwave Housing.
Black Sea common weever in a hunting position, Nikonos V, 28 mm macro tube 1:2
Getting Personal with Southern Stingray--Housed Nikon 8008S
Apogon Imberbis in Giglio Island (Italy). Nikon F801s with AF-D 105 mm + Close Up Lens 4T in Underwave Housing. It was very hard to obtain a correct focus and likely composition becouse the fish would not stay still.
Cuttlefish, Babbacombe, Devon, F90X 105mm lens
Rhinopias: Loloata Island, PNG: Housed Nikon F, 55mm Auto Micro Nikkor
Crocodile fish eye, shot while he rested on the sand @ 24m in mozambique
Ghost pipefish, Loloata Island, PNG: Housed Nikon F, 55 Auto Micro Nikkor
Lionfish, Loloata Island, PNG. Housed Nikon F, Auto micro Nikkor 55mm lens
Puffer on wall - Marianas
Nudibranch, taken on a shallow reef of the Kwajalein Lagoon, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Hyppocamphus
flabellina
Yellowmargin Moray - Northern Mariana Islands
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