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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)
clownfish by Volker Katzung
clownfish
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Banda Sea East Timor
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Anenome Shrimp in Playa Del Carrmen by Patrick Burke
Anenome Shrimp in Playa Del Carrmen
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31 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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This Shuttlecock Egg Cowrie_(Volva volva) is carnivorous ... by Brian Mayes
This Shuttlecock Egg Cowrie_(Volva volva) is carnivorous and should normally be found on gorgonian sea fans, so it was odd to see it crawling on the sandy bottom. I wonder what protection it has from crabs or octopus... <0/// < <....Canon G9
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Blenny closeup. Full frame. Canon 400D , 100mm , +4 close... by Melvin Lee
Blenny closeup. Full frame. Canon 400D , 100mm , +4 closeup and woody diopter.
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Emerging Trees! by Robert Baraud
Emerging Trees!
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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found in Lanzarote; D200 by Thomas Lueken
found in Lanzarote; D200
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Spain
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Beautiful Anemones... :O) by Michel Lonfat
Beautiful Anemones... :O)
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Pseudoceros sp. FLATWORM. by Larissa Roorda
Pseudoceros sp. FLATWORM.
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Solomon Sea Solomon islands
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Emperor Shrimp on Sea Cucumber by Patrick Burke
Emperor Shrimp on Sea Cucumber
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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A tiny commensal shrimp inside a blue tunicate. Captured ... by Teguh Tirtaputra
A tiny commensal shrimp inside a blue tunicate. Captured using Canon EOS 400D, 100mm macro lens and YS-250Pro strobe
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Tridacnes - Tridacna gigas by Vito Lorusso
Tridacnes - Tridacna gigas
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A face only a mother can love. by Michael Schlenk
A face only a mother can love.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Electric clam. Sometimes called fire clam. This clam "pu... by Dave Hunt
Electric clam. Sometimes called fire clam. This clam "pulses" with a phosphoresence that looks just like a blue electric arc moving through it. This image caught the bluish-white pulse near the center. Barrier Reef.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Australia
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Eye contact with a Fine Spotted Eel, when Diving in the G... by Frankie Rivera
Eye contact with a Fine Spotted Eel, when Diving in the Galapagos Islands
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Anemone partner shrimp by Aleksandr Marinicev
Anemone partner shrimp
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39 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Lizard fish by Vincenzo Zangrilli
Lizard fish
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Racing Stripe Flatworm (Pseudoceros bifurcus) at Menjanga... by Marco Waagmeester
Racing Stripe Flatworm (Pseudoceros bifurcus) at Menjangan Island, Bali.

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this is a first on this contest! Not a nudi but could be!
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Taken on shore dive, Grand Cayman. Nikon D300, by David Heidemann
Taken on shore dive, Grand Cayman. Nikon D300,
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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A little sparkle in the eye of this puffer! by Patrick Burke
A little sparkle in the eye of this puffer!
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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A marine Lipizzaner. Thorny Seahorse (Hippocampus hystrix... by Brian Mayes
A marine Lipizzaner. Thorny Seahorse (Hippocampus hystrix)... <0/// < <... <0/// < <....Canon G9 & Inon UCL-165 macro lens
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56 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Coral crab hiding in staghorn coral by Louwrens De Lange
Coral crab hiding in staghorn coral
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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A shy blenny finally posing to my camera. Olipus miu 710 by Svetoslav Dimitrov
A shy blenny finally posing to my camera. Olipus miu 710
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date posted posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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A Pair of Coleman Shrimps on a Fire Urchin taken with an ... by Fatt Chuen Foo
A Pair of Coleman Shrimps on a Fire Urchin taken with an Olympus SP 350, Olympus housing, single Inon D2000 strobe
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Went on a Gobi Hunt. This guy was one of 6 different spe... by Patrick Burke
Went on a Gobi Hunt. This guy was one of 6 different species found.
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date posted posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Spot-face moray. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Spot-face moray. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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A basket star on a sponge at Chelsea reef in Port Elizabe... by Anthony Wooldridge
A basket star on a sponge at Chelsea reef in Port Elizabeth.Canon S70is ISO200 f2.6 1/60
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 21, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Panda Clown.Taken while he having a nap on my night dive ... by Paul Ng
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Panda Clown.Taken while he having a nap on my night dive with my compact camera G9.
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 20, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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