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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)
Little Octopus by Mehmet Öztabak
Little Octopus
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date posted posted: Friday, January 22, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Coral Goby taken at Phi Phi Islands Marine National Park. by Daniel Sasse
Coral Goby taken at Phi Phi Islands Marine National Park.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 22, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Canon 70d with Canon 100mm lens Hugyfot housing with two... by Tom Van Hout
Canon 70d with Canon 100mm lens
Hugyfot housing with two Ikelite s51 strobes
F11, 1/60 sec, iso 200
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indonesia
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octopus by Mehmet Öztabak
octopus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) Dauin, Philippines... by Colin Salmon
Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus)
Dauin, Philippines
April 2015
Canon G16 - Single S&S YS-D1 - 1/125, f/8, ISO 80
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Backlit Blenny by Taner Atilgan
Backlit Blenny
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date posted posted: Monday, January 18, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sea of Marmara Turkey
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Fluorescing secretary blenny! I used a very shallow de... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Fluorescing secretary blenny!
I used a very shallow depth of field, enabling me to focus solely on the blenny and let the coral blur out of focus. To capture the fluorescence I used Nightsea filters.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Seahorse in the Seagrass by Henley Spiers
Seahorse in the Seagrass
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date posted posted: Friday, January 15, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Harlequin Shrimp by Brian Mcdaniel
Harlequin Shrimp
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific United States
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On a divesite called Pantaw Pantaw near Malapascua we cam... by Rasmus Raahauge
On a divesite called Pantaw Pantaw near Malapascua we came across this funny and beautiful small flamboyant octopus
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Purple Rhinopia Aphol Anilao by John Parker
Purple Rhinopia Aphol Anilao
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Goby on a sea pen- backlit by John Parker
Goby on a sea pen- backlit
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date posted posted: Monday, January 11, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Pleurosicya boldinghi in Dendronephthya soft coral. by Jenny Strömvoll
Pleurosicya boldinghi in Dendronephthya soft coral.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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Yellow Daisy by Marco Gargiulo
Yellow Daisy
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Soft coral crab. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Soft coral crab.
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Sailfin Blenny by Henley Spiers
Sailfin Blenny
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Little scorpaena by Marco Gargiulo
Little scorpaena
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Eastern Cleaner Clingfish, Cochleoceps orientalis. Name... by Kris O'keeffe
Eastern Cleaner Clingfish, Cochleoceps orientalis.
Named after its cleaning behaviour. The species is often observed cleaning other larger fishes. It swims over the surface of larger fishes such as Morwongs, Leatherjackets and the Eastern Blue G...
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 3, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Australia
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Orange & Black Dragonet Lembeh Strait Indonesia by Debra Cahill
Orange & Black Dragonet Lembeh Strait Indonesia
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indonesia
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Whip Coral Goby taken near Labuan Bajo, ndonesia by Robert Michaelson
Whip Coral Goby taken near Labuan Bajo, ndonesia
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 2, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Not a coleman shrimp by James Deverich
Not a coleman shrimp
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date posted posted: Friday, January 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Boxer Crab by Todd Moseley
Boxer Crab
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Coleman shrimp With this small animal from the underwate... by Volker Lonz
Coleman shrimp
With this small animal from the underwater world, i wish every body all the best for 2016.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Mates / Coleman shrimp by James Deverich
Mates / Coleman shrimp
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date posted posted: Friday, January 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Deniz Kalemi/Veretillum cynomorium by Mehmet Öztabak
Deniz Kalemi/Veretillum cynomorium
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date posted posted: Friday, January 1, 2016
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sea of Marmara Turkey
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Fluorescence! A goby glows brightly on brain coral. I sho... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Fluorescence! A goby glows brightly on brain coral. I shot this using Nightsea filters: the fluorescence is excited by the blue light emitted through my strobes and then recorded through the Nightsea filter over my macro port.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 31, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Almost invisible to the eye. The wonderfully camoflaged B... by Terry Steeley
Almost invisible to the eye. The wonderfully camoflaged Bargibant's pygmy seahorse is a master of disguise against the gorgonian coral.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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