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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)
Photographed on South Reef, Salang Bay, Tioman Island with an Olympus 5060
a shy hawkfish
Crabs - Pagurus anachoretus
"Spider or Crab"? .. From this angle we can see something like its foot hair shaped like net of spider~~ cute~
Fan worm and tunicates, Clovelly
Little goby on a cushion star. Picture taken on the second reef off Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Abstract (anemone mouth).
Moray under soft coral on the sand saddle between Shark and Yolanda reefs. Taken with an Olympus SP-350 and Sea&Sea YS-27 strobe.
Squat Lobster taken off St Abbs Head with a Canon A570is
I like finding a place underwater and just waiting, you wait and things just start to appear, like this little lettuceleaf slug. Grand Caymen.
The very rare two-ringed blue ring octopus with only two neon rings on either side of the head. He was tapping the front of the lens, seeing his own reflection. Only on land did I consider proximity to my bare fingers.
Decorating lobster.
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red dragonet,nikon d2x 105mm macro
Spotted cleaner shrimp with its anemone.
Night diving, black sand ;o)
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Banded Blenny. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 20D & Canon 100 macro.
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Two in one.... Casio exilim
Frog fish
Yellow Froggi taken in Nuweiba with an Olympus 5060 WZ and two YS 60 strobes.
Goblin Fish
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Lion fish on KBR pier leg. Lembeh straits.D200, 60mm.
"dardanus pedunculatus"450d canon+60 macro.
This photo was taken a Yucab Reef, off Cozumel last month. Beautiful diving! Im still going thru the photos taken there on my last trip. These are White Featherduster Tubeworms.
Goby on red coral branch, taken off the South shore of Maui, using a 60mm lens.
One of many feather stars along a wall off Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
Octo trying to give me the look while he is hiding inside a sand covered slipper. Olympus sp350
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