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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - 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 in MID WATER not touching anything (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
A larval ribbon fish. An Oarfish maybe?
A temperate shrimp attempts to clean a burnt cigarette butt
Pipehorse (Acentronura dendritica) from the Cayman Islands. This rare animal is a cousin to a seahorse. It was a great find.
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Juvenile Yellow Boxfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D & Canon 100 macro.
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Blue-ringed Octopus probably (Hapalochlaena lunulata)
Seahorse, Sugar Pier
eyes watching you
Splendid Toadfish-Cozumel-Canon 5D 100 mm macro
Longsnout Butterflyfish (Chaetodon aculeatus) on Little Cayman Island.
Squid shot taken during a night dive. Photo was taken right before a jet of black ink was shot in my face and the squid took off.
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Gold-banded Butterflyfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D & Canon 100 macro
Pelagic Octopus, swimming in 7000ft of water at night.
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Pederson Cleaner Shrimp on Anemone in Bonaire
Nikon D70, Sea and Sea DX70 Housing, 60.0 mm
1/1600 s @f/36.0 ISO 1600
Red sea anemonefish (Amphipiron bicinctus) taken with 180mm no crop.
Spine-cheek Anemonefish
A larval Cusk Eel, or some other unidentified brotulotenia.
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Dancing with fishes!!
Probably the cutest expression I have ever seen on a Moray Eel.
D300, 60mm AF-S macro
"Mating Dance" from the Maldives.
Picture of Cow fish taken at night on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
Arabian Bluestriped Dottyback (Pseudochromis aldabraensis)...¸> <((((º> .....Canon G9 & Inon UCL-165
Juvenile Silver Sweetlips (Diagramma pictum) in Anilao. This species has many juvenile and sub-adult forms, which can make identification a bit tricky.
Glowing Squid (Night dive / strobe lit)
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro, 2x YS-110a
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Cleaner wrasse at work on juvenile parrotfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D & Canon 100 macro
Clown Wrasse (Clown Coris) at a cleaning station. Taken at Jackson Reef Sharm. Canon S50 digital
A very shy fish called in French "Epinoche" - maybe a "Minnow" in English... :O) ...
L'equilibrista
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