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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)
Christmas Tree Worm seen in Grand Cayman August 2008. Photo taken with a Canon SD550.
Stynray's eye - Nikon D70S - 105 macro - DS160
Inside the crinoid,nikond2x 105mm macro
Night diving, black sand, Indonesia.
Fireworm taken at Korcula island at cca 25m. Resting on a gorgonian where it feeds. Olympus SP350 in macro mode, no strobe at all, manual setting ISO200, 1/50s, f/4.5

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I have no idea what this thing is, and getting a macro focus was not easy.... casio z1200
This Lionfish was tucked into a wreck in the Bahamas. Photo taken with Olympus Evolt E-300 with Inon strobe.
Bearded Fire Worm (hermodice carunculata)
"Three Bargibanties"; met in the Raja Ampat, West Papua
Speckled Sandperch. While diving from Pelagian off the coast of Wangi Wangi we encountered many of these little guys. Mostly found in rubble or on the sandy bottom they are very skiddish and thereby difficult to photograph this close.
Doctor fish on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
We saw the orange rhino when from out of the soft corals came hopping a white lacey rhino... Can it be 2 holy grails??!! It was one of my best dive feeling in years wink Canon G9
shortlistedShortlisted!
ANENOME CRAB
taken with canon g9...
All do claimed to be endogenous of Cozumel this picture was taken in Cancun's reefs.
father & son
canon 400d + macro 60 mm canon
shortlistedShortlisted!
An Anemone in the famous "Etang de Thau" in France
Scorpion fish at bunaken island
f/11.2, 1/68, -0.3ev, ISO 100, 15.3mm, shot in Bonaire on the Yellow Sub house reef. They zap around, got to get real close real slow, and snap before they jet off to another microscopic patch!
Lizard Fish, D300, Nikkor 60mm AFS Macro, 2x YS-110 strobes
Rombo di mare (Bothus podas podas)
The silhouette of a nudibranch~ Different Feeling~~
Two cleaners, no waiting. Honeycomb Cod being tended to by a Cleaner Wrasse and a Cleaner Shrimp. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 20D, Canon 100 macro & Tamron 2X teleconverter
Scorpion Fish in action at Vieques, PR.
D300, 60 AFS Macro, 2x YS-110, Phuket, Thailand
Warning!!!
Lovely smile of a giant anglerfish
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