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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)
"Gotcha" Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish striking and catching her dinner. I spent over 4 hours on separate dives with this pair of Flambo's and have many shots with the radula out but this is the only shot I have where she caught dinner
Seafan Annella Mollis with a little guest
A friendly frogfish (Canon G9 and Ikelite DS51 strobe)
White tufted worm
sea urchin
Ghost shrinmp... Casio exilim zx 1200
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A very small Octopus
Spotfin lionfish. Lembeh. D200, 60mm.
Sleeping Octopus
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Froggy on the move, Bonaire, D300, 105VR
nikon d2x 105mm macro
Off Anilao Philippines. Casio Exilim ZX 1200
This image of a tiny crab was taken during a Blue Ventures expedition in South Western Madagascar. We were surveying a damaged reef when I found this little guy and his anenome home still alive and well amoung the rubble! Canon G7 with Canon housing.
Anodonta cygnea - swan mussel - the natural filter of our lakes (up to 50L/day). what looks like a tongue is in fact it's foot, used to move or dig the sand.
Blacktip grouper
Flamingo tongue - Bonaire
Together forever
Pygmi hanging on to seafan.
Canon G10, triple stacks INON macro lens, INON strobes
'what you looking at ???"
Look out behind you! Whip Coral Shrimps, Anilao, Philippines, Canon G9, Ikelite Housing, Inon lenses and strobes
Cave cleaner shrimp.
Clownfrogfish taken at Wakatobi with Canon S70 and CloseUp Lens, it was such a small guy (3 inch) we found him on a night dive.
Another close up with the old Casio Exilim.... Internal strobe only
Cleaner shrimp. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D, Canon 100 macro, Kenko 1.4X teleconverter & Canon 500D close-up lens.
Spotted cleaner shrimp - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm; single DS-125
Tiny goby on a bubble coral
Redspotted sandperch. Forward facing spine is not depicted in any other images I have seen. Input welcome. Maui, Hawaii.
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