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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)
Juvenile Painted Frogfish, Manado by Doug Anderson
Juvenile Painted Frogfish, Manado
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Xenocrab. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Xenocrab.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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"GHOST" by Walter Bassi
"GHOST"
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ligurian Sea Italy
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Porcelain Crab, Amed by Doug Anderson
Porcelain Crab, Amed
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Pink eye goby - Mayotte by Takma Lherminier
Pink eye goby - Mayotte
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Mayotte
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Bumble bee shrimp (a.k.a striped harlequin shrimp) enjoyi... by Terry Steeley
Bumble bee shrimp (a.k.a striped harlequin shrimp) enjoying a symbiotic relationship with sea cucumber.
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Subal underwater housing, Canon 5Dmk2, Canon EF100mm macro, f18, 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobe, Subsee +5 diopter
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Hairy Frog fish portrait @ Anilao Pier by Wayne Jones
Hairy Frog fish portrait @ Anilao Pier
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3 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Staring into darkness by James Deverich
Staring into darkness
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 27, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Pink eye gboy - Mayotte by Takma Lherminier
Pink eye gboy - Mayotte
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 27, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Mayotte
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'Are you looking at me?' Whip Coral Benny. — Subal unde... by Terry Steeley
'Are you looking at me?' Whip Coral Benny.
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Subal underwater housing, Canon 5D mk2, Canon 100mm macro, f18, 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobes, Subsee +5 diopter
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Underwater Photography is all about getting close and shooting low. This shot nails it!
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 27, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Chiaroscuro by Abimael Márquez
Chiaroscuro
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 26, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Eggs by Abimael Márquez
Eggs
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4 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 26, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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L I M P I D Anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes holthuisi) Anil... by Irwin Ang
L I M P I D
Anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes holthuisi)
Anilao, Philippines. January 2015
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 26, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Gobie on a whip coral by Peet J Van Eeden
Gobie on a whip coral
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Envy by James Deverich
Envy
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date posted posted: Friday, April 24, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Seahorse by Arno Enzo
Seahorse
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 23, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Simplex Shrimp / Looks like dirt till you get up close! by James Deverich
Simplex Shrimp / Looks like dirt till you get up close!
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 23, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Atlantic Longarm Octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi), St Lu... by Henley Spiers
Atlantic Longarm Octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi), St Lucia
Olympus OMD-EM5, Olympus 60mm macro lens
Nauticam housing + single S&S YS-D1
1/250 f8 ISO 200
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Lucia
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Super Macro by Jonny Haugstad
Super Macro
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Two / Hinged back dancing shrimp by James Deverich
Two / Hinged back dancing shrimp
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Arrowhead crab - Huenia heraldica by James Deverich
Arrowhead crab - Huenia heraldica
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6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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When cruising over an algae growth in secret bay this Bob... by Marc Damant
When cruising over an algae growth in secret bay this Bobtail Squid was a very pale color hiding above the bottom and changed color to this vivid array!
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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making myself "BIG " Photo taken Port Stephen Australia by Herbert Schmitz
making myself "BIG " Photo taken Port Stephen Australia
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 18, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific Australia
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X-mas three. Taken in Bohol, PH. by Jonny Haugstad
X-mas three. Taken in Bohol, PH.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 18, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Symbiosis of Creatures Notice the shrimps Antennae touch... by Jan Morton
Symbiosis of Creatures
Notice the shrimps Antennae touch the Goby in order to receive warnings as the shrimp is almost blind. The shrimp maintains the house and stocks it with food for the nights and the Goby keeps the shrimp safe.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 18, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Spirobranchus giganteus This was one of the most delica... by Patricia Sinclair
Spirobranchus giganteus
This was one of the most delicately coloured ones I have ever seen. Just a hint of peachy-apricot to it.
This is uncropped.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 17, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Sailfin Blenny at Capt Don's House Reef by Robert Michaelson
Sailfin Blenny at Capt Don's House Reef
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 17, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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