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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)
Flounder
Lionfish taken with Canon G10 and UCL165
Matoti- beautiuful, but deadly
My book says, that this is an so called "Strawberry Worm". Strange critter ! It's body is around 3cm small, the tentacles are around 20 cm long. After more than 3500 dives that was the first time I ever saw this animal.
pigmy.....
Deep water Atlantic Scolymia coral
... you talkin' to me?
Flounder face
goby on bubble coral
Mushroom Scorpion Fish. We say in Bonaire " the dives not over until we craw out of the water. This guys EYE caught my eye when I was in about 8 feet of water. Nikon D80 sea and sea 60mm macro.
Wire Coral Goby
Porcelain Crab Toofer!! A tiny juvenile porcelain crab rides atop an adult of the same species. Shot taken in Komodo, Indonesia.
Mantis shrimp
Coleman shrimp , taken with Canon G10 and UCL165
Alice in Wonderland
or...
(a fireworm emerges from the Kingdom of hydroids)
Hello
Sea flowers :-)
Small Blenny peering from his tubular home in Timor-Leste.
Red and purple... smile
I have put it in the non-swimming because he just lay there posing for me while I snapped away with my camara for 2 minutes. He was a 1.5 meter Angel Shark in only 10meters of water and Picture was taken on a casio z85 with internal flash set on soft
Corallimorph sp, Roatan, Honduras
SeaLife DC1000
Goby
Moray eel portrait I. (Siderea grisea)
'The Guardian'- Blenny on Sponge, Roatan-SeaLife DC 1000, single strobe
Bobtail Squid.Nikon F100,60mm,f27,1/125,Inon Z-240,RVP100.
Once in B&W (Hymenocera elegans)
Spiral Tube Worm , taken with Canon G10 and UCL165
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