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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)
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"Freckled Hawkfish" Taken on a dive at Coral Gardens in Guam on 8 December 2007. I was amazed he let me get this close. Canon A630 set on macro/Ikelite Housing/Ikelite DS125 Substrobe.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp with eggs taken at Jahir, Lembeh Straits with Olympus E-510 with Zuiko 50mm Macro lens and twin Inon Z-240 strobes
Canned octopus.
Lembeh Straits.
60mm.
Big fat pregnant man in Wakatobi. Nikon D80, 105mm macro + wet diopter.
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Bubble shrimp, Bunaken
CAVALLUCCI
Super Hi-way of Soft Coral, C7070 Olympus
A nice sized seahorse in Cozumel. Canon 400D 100mm.
Up & Under! Taken in Anilao with Canon G9.
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Editor's Comment
We've had laods of shots like this with one fish, but never two! Well done Edvin
Taken at Weh Island, Banda Aceh...about 12 meters depth
a posing shrimp
Large green moray eel hidden behind rock formation
Gorgonian goby
Clearfin lionfish portrait taken on a night dive at Ras Umm Sid.
ghost pipe fish (paradoxus)
Shot on my Olympus 5060, off the beach at Salang, Tioman Island
discs - is that soft coral? (more at cf29.com)
My little friend under Seaventures in Mabul!
The Green, La Parguera
One of three sharptail eels cautiously returning from a jaunt in the grass. Taken off my dad's back porch on Roatan with my D200 and 105mm macro.
Whip Coral Shrimp taken at Bangka Islands with Olympus E-510, Zuiko 50mm macro lens and twin Inon Z-240 strobes.
Pink Anemone Fish; taken with Canon G7 and built-in flash,
Porcelain crab. Lembeh strait's. D200, 60mm.
Goby on coral
Small fish in Ilha Rasa, coast of Rio de Janeiro
"Hinge-beak Prawns" Very hard to get a shot as they were hiding in the rocks and would move away from my light as I tried to frame them. Photo taken 2 Feb 2008 during a dive in Suruga Bay off Ita Beach on the Izu Pennisula. Canon A630 set on Macro.
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