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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)
Red fan-worm displaying its feeders
Picture taken @ Point Turton in South Australia just off the jetty. I call it Mellow Yellow.
Barred_fin Moray Eel Gymnothorax zonipectis
Leaf scorpionfish yawning
Twin brothers.
Two hinge-beak shrimps at Silver Reef divesite, Dauin, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, f/22, 1/125, Easydive Leo3 housing, 2 Ikelite strobes.
Xeno crab, Moalboal, Philippines.
Nikon D80, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f/14, 1/125, Ikelite housing with 2 Ikelite strobes.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Acrobatic shrimp.
Divesite Thalatta housereef, Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, f/22, 1/125, Easydive LEO3 housing with 2 Ikelite strobes.
Close-up of a longnose hawkfish
Nikon D80, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, 1/125, f/20, Ikelite housing, 2 Ikelite strobes
Blenny
Thorny seahorse
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2022

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Octopus trying to look like an elephant
shortlistedShortlisted!
Paddle flap
Home Alone
Playing in the anemone
'grumpy' // frogfish hanging between coral.
Lybia tessellata
Resident Crabs
shortlistedShortlisted!
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Ring Master
The beauty of the skeleton of a giant sea clam
Gorgonian coral polyps
This is a photo of a sea-pen crab. Taken in Dauin, Philippines.
Pike Blenny
Crown Jewel
Basket Star on a palmate fan
This small pipefish lives in the Netherlands in 'het Grevelingenmeer'.
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2022

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Phyllognathia ceratophthalma
shortlistedShortlisted!
Juvenile yellow frogfish. Anilao, Philippines. Subal ND500, 105mm+12.5 diopter., D-Max strobe snoot.
this is another photo of nudi & frogfish, stay together, sit together, side by side. how adorable they are!
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