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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)
Colorful.
Masked Butterfly Fish -Sharm El Shaikh
Snooted blue ring octopus.
— Subal underwater housing, Canon 5Dmk2, Canon EF100mm macro, f14 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobe connected to a fibre optic snoot.
Blue spotted stingray
Portrait of a common lionfish
"Baffone" this goat fish was swimming towards me when I snapped this shot!!!
This honeycomb cowfish posed for me for quite a while...and followed me around, even when I wasn't shooting him. I was set up for macro, so I did the best I could with getting a portrait.
Backlinghting the filefish illuminating the skeletal bones and using just enough front lighting to light up the eye.
The golden one. Caught using my lights to hunt
Wide open
shortlistedShortlisted!
Rhinopias fondosa - Weedy scorpionfish
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Finally got a shot of a brooding Yellowhead Jawfish!
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
New friend
- safe at home - Juvenile Red Sea clownfsh (Amphiprion bicinctus), in its home bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)
Juvenile Red Sea clownfsh (Amphiprion bicinctus), in its home bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolo
Sulphur damsel (Pomacentrus sulfureus)
~ Old Blue Eyes ~
mesmeric
Raja Ampat - the Ctenophora
Itchy and Scratchy
three in a row
shortlistedShortlisted!
I am a mother...
— Subal underwater housing, Canon 5D mk2, Canon EF 100mm macro, f18, 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobe
~ Electric Blue ~
"Face to Face with an Angel"- A Yellow Marked Angelfish
Mating Squids
shortlistedShortlisted!
Messmate Pipefish
D o - R e - M i
Razorfish (Aeoliscus strigatus)
Tulamben (Bali), Indonesia. July 2015
Feeling broody...
— Subal underwater housing, Canon 5D mk2, Canon EF 100mm macro, f20, 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobe
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2015

Final RoundThrough to 2015 awards final round judging
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