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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - not 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 NOT MOVING usually on the bottom (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
Spider Squat Lobsters (Chirostylus sandyi)
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Spotted Anemone Porcelain Crab - Neopetrolisthes maculatus (maculata)
Translucent Gorgonian Shrimp - Manipontonia
OURSIN-DIADÈME DE SAVIGNY - Diadema savignyi
REUNION 2023
Shrimp
Perfectly disguised cancer
At a black pearl farm in Raiatea, French Polynesia, I came across this Network Pipefish. I waited patiently for nearly an hour before the pipefish finally got into position
Prawn - Metapenaeopsis sp2 (grey colour)
Portrait Batfish
Nikkor 105mm macro
Nikon D850
Prawn - Metapenaeopsis sp2
Unknow species on night dive
Banded Boxer Shrimp - Stenopus hispidus
sea-arm
Bargibant's pygmy seahorse
Olympus EM1X
yellow goby with eggs in the bottle
Porcelian Crab
MURENE PONCTUEE - GYMNOTHORAX MELEAGRIS
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Coral Guard Crab during a recent trip to French Polynesia. These crabs have a symbiotic relationship with the coral. The crabs act as a protector against coral predators and harmful debris. In return, they receive shelter and a coral mucous meal.
Taken in the Grevelingenmeer in the Netherlands.
Seahorse and his baby seahorses
Greyface Moray Eel - Gymnothorax thyrsoideus (Siderea thyrsoidea / prosopeion)
Seahorse
Robust ghost pipefish
Bubble Anemone Shrimp
Goby taken with TG6
Tozuma armatum (saw-blade shrimp). (f/8, 1/60, ISO-200, 3... by E&e Lp
by: E&e Lp
Tozuma armatum (saw-blade shrimp). (f/8, 1/60, ISO-200, 30mm, UCL-165). - Els
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