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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)

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Ningaloo reef in Australia is alive with cleaning station... by Rand Mcmeins
Ningaloo reef in Australia is alive with cleaning stations. A Parrotfish gets toothy. D2x 105mm.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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This guy was tiny, Blue Tang by Lora Tucker
This guy was tiny, Blue Tang
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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macro shot of free swimming jellyfish taken at 16 metres ... by Matt Andrew
macro shot of free swimming jellyfish taken at 16 metres from below in full daylight at big habil southern red sea
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We've seen it before but it's the type of shot you like to see again (and again)
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Zaizer's bigeye. The brothers. F50, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Zaizer's bigeye. The brothers.
F50, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Parablennius gattorugine in the Mediterranean sea - Nikon... by Ferdinando Meli
Parablennius gattorugine in the Mediterranean sea - NikonosV whit macrotube 1:2 and Ikelite 100 Strobe
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Trunkfish portrait - up close. Curacao. D70, 105 macro. by David Heidemann
Trunkfish portrait - up close. Curacao. D70, 105 macro.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Keep smiling...!!! Friendly little Balloonfish swiming d... by David Benz
Keep smiling...!!!
Friendly little Balloonfish swiming directly to my camera and smile, so I could make this picture.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Rusty Angelfish - Found beside Mushroom Head at Green Isl... by David Drake
Rusty Angelfish - Found beside Mushroom Head at Green Island, Taiwan (oldest living coral and largest mushroom coral on Earth as documented by National Geographic); thought it was a damsel from its shape and took some time to identify as an angelfish
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Taiwan
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School of fishes in Nosy Be by Ugo Gaggeri
School of fishes in Nosy Be
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 2, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Madagascar
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'GRAY LADY DOWN' One of the 'classic' Caribbean reef dwel... by Rick Tegeler
'GRAY LADY DOWN' One of the 'classic' Caribbean reef dwellers - Gray Angel. Cozumel. Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Friday, December 1, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Hawksbill turtles, they are being very courious with me, ... by Lora Tucker
Hawksbill turtles, they are being very courious with me, I adore them:)
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date posted posted: Friday, December 1, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Angelfish has it's eye shadow touched up...;-) D2x 105mm by Rand Mcmeins
Angelfish has it's eye shadow touched up...;-)
D2x 105mm

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Dramatic cleaning behavior that probably required patience and a tele lens to get Rand
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Time for school:) by Lora Tucker
Time for school:)
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Pyrosoma atlanticum. Colony of zooids, tightly packed ind... by Ramón Domínguez
Pyrosoma atlanticum. Colony of zooids, tightly packed individuals embedded in a tough, rigid tube, closed and slightly tapered at one end. Each zooid about 8.5 mm, this colony lenght was about 60 cms. Olympus C8080
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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Diving a wreck in Cayman this Parrot was playing with me. by Karen Upchurch
Diving a wreck in Cayman this Parrot was playing with me.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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'PORTRAIT OF AN ANGEL' Doing one of the two things they d... by Rick Tegeler
'PORTRAIT OF AN ANGEL' Doing one of the two things they do best... posing! (The other... being curious). French Angel; Cayman Brac. Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Normally Stargazers hide in the sand and only by luck did... by Brian Mayes
Normally Stargazers hide in the sand and only by luck did we disturb this one. Having witnessed how it completely buries itself in the sand, It's probably the first and last I will ever see!!. Whitemargin Stargazer from Taveuni. Canon A70
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Fiji
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sweetlips beeing cleaned; Nikon F80, 105mm, 2 strobes, by Jean-Louis Danan
sweetlips beeing cleaned; Nikon F80, 105mm, 2 strobes,
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Martinique
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A juvenile Trachurus sp. swimming in the tentacles of a R... by Joao Pedro Tojal Loia Soares Silva
A juvenile Trachurus sp. swimming in the tentacles of a Rhizostoma sp. jelly. Shot in Baleal, Portugal, using a Canon EOS 300D in Nimar housing, Sigma 50mm macro and Ikelite MV strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Atlantic Portugal
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This White Spotted Filefish was a surprise. My first enco... by Lora Tucker
This White Spotted Filefish was a surprise. My first encounter with the bright orange fish.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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I slowly approached this balloonfish and got a close-up s... by David Heidemann
I slowly approached this balloonfish and got a close-up shot of his eye. You can see his cornea and lens. Curacao. D70, 105 macro, +4 diopter.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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by Ran Marom
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Baby Triggerfish, they have a wonderful face. by Lora Tucker
Baby Triggerfish, they have a wonderful face.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Angry Nemo - Canon 350D/20mm/Ike DS-125 X 2/HID Light Can... by Dallas Poore
Angry Nemo - Canon 350D/20mm/Ike DS-125 X 2/HID Light Cannon 100. Taken in Fiji last week.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Fiji
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'Spike' Aquaba, Nikonos 28mm lense, Kodachrome 64 by Michael Godfrey
'Spike'
Aquaba, Nikonos 28mm lense, Kodachrome 64
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Jordan
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Kiss, kiss. Natural demeanor of the Honeycomb Cowfish. Ta... by Susan Lunn
Kiss, kiss. Natural demeanor of the Honeycomb Cowfish. Taken 06/2006, Little Cayman Island with C5050 and an Ikelite DS-125 strobe.

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A mono color study that works nicely
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Ghost pipe fish,Koh-Phi-Phi,Nikon F80,105mm,Velvia,hugyfo... by Jean-Louis Danan
Ghost pipe fish,Koh-Phi-Phi,Nikon F80,105mm,Velvia,hugyfot housing,2 Sea&Sea strobes.2005.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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