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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)
I took this photo in Greece, with a Sony DSC-P5 digital camera.
Taken at night with Canon G2 at about 30 ft.
The fairy basslet, taken with a Nikon F100 and 60mm Micro Nikkor
medusa and fish,Sagres-south Portugal,F90x with 18-35zoom lens,2 strobes
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2002

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Fantastic behavior shot, nicely observed, and well executed
A jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) swimming in São Lourenço bay, Santa Maria Island, Azores. Taken with a Bonica Seaking Snapper with 1:6 macro at 2 metres depth.
Smiling Murena
Viper Moray -Saipan
Starpuffer-Saipan
Hitchhiking jellyfish, Poor Knights Islands (New Zealand) drifting at night

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Now here's an unusual shot, well done Rees
Cabazon in hiding, Vancouver Is. BC, SS MMII, 2:1
Giant Turtle at Terumbu Kili, Pulau Redang, Malaysia
Close up of a blue spotted ray, swimming by me on Jackson reef in the Red Sea. I used an Olympus C960 on auto-macro, and internal flash
Palau Clown
Masked Butterflyfish, chaetodon semilarvatus
Lionfish, Red Sea.
Tufs/ grren tutle taken by sailrock Thailand, at the end of the dive
Pipefish, Red Sea, August 2001. 105mm, Nikon N90S in Sea & Sea housing.
Hawksbill Turtle feeding on soft coral. (eretmochelus imbricata)
Too close to a Giant Moray! - Saipan -Mavica 90 Ikelite Housing and video light
These little Clowns live in the Rock Islands.
This little guy swims around Okinawa.
Whitemouth Moray
Pigmy-seahorse. Philippines
I found this guy taking a break in the Sulu Sea,Palawan,PI with a MX-10 and macro lens.
This clown fish was shot in Rota's East Bay with a Sea N Sea MX-10 macro lens.
Star Puffer
Eye of a weedy seadragon (Phyllopterix taeniolatus) Shark Point, Sydney, Nikonos V with 35mm lens & 2:1 (double life size, not 1:2) extension tube
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