loading ...
please wait
Video Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - not swimming (730)

Search Contest Entries

Entries by Category
Entries by Sea
Entries by Country
or enter search text
Contest Chat
Stats
Portfolios
Slide ShowSlide Show (latest)
Slide Show
Medal Winners
Spam voting policy
Really Simple Syndication Top 10 RSS feed
The Rules!
Our underwater photography contest is the longest running and most prestigious online. If you want to make a name for yourself this is THE place to do it.
Just look at some of the internationally acclaimed photographers who have launched their u/w photo careers here over the years.

It's easy to enter the contest just... click here to enter

Monthly winners will be shown by the 10th of the following month

The pre-judging for the annual awards has started!
click here to see shortlisted entries

Peoples' Vote


2024 has been the year of the bait ball in Bonaire.  This tired turtle is looking for a place to rest, oblivious of the cyclone of big eye scan just meters away.  Shot with a Nikon Z8/Nauticam housing/INON z330 strobes.
By Leslie Howell
posted (3 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (5 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (3 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Yesterday
0 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Tuesday, December 24, 2024
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted 05:47 CST Today (2 hours ago)
0 votes
About Peoples' vote About Peoples' vote



Special Offer
Our Price $899
buy underwater cameras
buy your UnderwaterPhotography.com T-shirts!
The UnderwaterPhotography.com photo course collection
click here to buy the book
19933 Entries Found: Page 730  of  739
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)
Took this pic on one of the dives to Nudi Falls in Lembeh
Thorny seahorse, Nuweiba, Egypt. Taken with Nikon F90 with 60mm lens
Just hanging out at home, Olympus 4040 tetra housing wet swap macro
This moray was taken in Southern Mozambique @22m with a MotorMarine II EX and T3 lens
Cleaning station, Dive site: Sodwana, South Africa, How: On a casual dive I saw the small Eel (Head about 4cm) and noticed all the shrimps around him busy cleaning
A tiny triplefin laying on a very colourful hard coral is an ideal subject for the long macro zoom
Underwater Cavern - Taken at Ginnie Springs Fl. Taken from inside of cavern looking out.
Brain / Taken in Key Largo, with a Sea & Sea Motormarine II and a YS-60
A precious stone carved onto the bed of the Red Sea Floor - Nikon F90x and 70-180 macro zoom
Croatia - Island Vis. Taken during the night dive. Nikon in Sea&Sea housing with two strobes.
This photo was taken in Croatia. This parasite was siting on the back of blenny.
Seahorse. My first try with a digital camera, Olympus camera with wide angle lens on housing
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2003

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
This seahorse shot sticks out from the multitude of others we get
Clown Shrimp Pacific Coast Costa Rica Nikon F4 Aquatica Housing 105mm
A nudibranch (Hypselodoris cantabrica), shot in Baleal, Portugal, using Nikonos V, 1:1 extension tube, Ikelite 100a strobe.
Spotted Eel, Maui
Sagres / Portgal - housed Canon EOS 100 - macro 100 mm - Fuji Provia
A splendid Chromodoris easy to spot at night taken on the large macro zoom at the depth of 19 mts in a night dive
Night dive in Indonesia and on the edge of a reef hidden inside an alcionaria this tiny crab is posing precisely for me
Flounder (Platichthys flesus), shot in Baleal, Portugal, using Nikonos V, 1:3 extension tube, Ikelite 100a strobe.
Eilat ,Israel - when laying on my stomach for 10 minutes waiting peacfully
Coral - Saudi Arabia - Red Sea
Nudibranch (Hypselodoris cantabrica) with a neon feel to it. Shot in Baleal, Portugal, with a Nikonos IV-A, 1:1 extension tube, SB-105 strobe.
Moray eel eye and mouth detail. close up and detail of patterning of honeycomb moray, south africa
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2003

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
An interesting crop and the pattern makes this shot
Tube worm colony (Filograna sp.). Shot in Baleal, Portugal, using Nikonos V, 1:1 extension tube, SB-105 strobe.
Nudibranch taken in the South Male Atoll, Maldives with Olympus C5050 zoom with no external flash
Nudibranch (Chromodoris purpurea). Shot in Baleal, Portugal, using Sony DSC-P7 in MPK-P9 housing, Sea&Sea 1:2 conversion lens, built-in flash.
Nudibranch (Flabellina babai), shot in Baleal using Nikonos IV-A, 1:1 extension tube, SB-105 strobe.
19933 Entries Found: Page 730  of  739