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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)
Little Seahorse cruising the Blue Heron Bridge on Sunday.
Sweeper
NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" uw housing, 105mm Macro (NIKKOR)
Settings: f13, 1/100, ISO 100
Hippocampus guttulatus, swimming near the surface
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Rodrigues encounter
Spotted Drum Intermediate (Equetus punctatus), St Lucia
Olympus OMD-EM5 with Nautical housing
Single Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe
f11 1/250 ISO 200
Too close ... curious squid investigates my camera
Phycodurus eques
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pipe eyes
Pajama striped cuttlefish mating dance. They swim with a fantastic cork-screw movement until they are done or one of the 2 is buried under the sand!!!
Ornate ghost pipefish in Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Shot with Canon 5D mark 3, in Ikelite housing, with 2 Ikelite ds 125 strobes, with a snoot. Underwater photography by Matt McGee. More images at click here
Bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessonianain) in the sun of Palau
Psycho Killer. Pink Anemonefish - Amphiprion perideraion. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f11-iso100-Inon D2000x2
Unicorn
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S W I N G
Juvenile sweetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides)
Anilao, Philippines. May 2014
Ornate ghost pipefish on night dive - taken with a Canon EF 100mm f2.8L Macro IS USM lens and +5 diopter
Colourful encounter
Daddy
War Paint
Juvenile High Hat - approx size is 1/2" across
full frame no crop
Anemone Fish feelin the groove
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Portrait
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Juvenile filefish
Coris julis, male
"Like a little Fireworks" -
With this tiny broad-barred firefish I wish all of you a Happy New Year 2015
lionfish
"Just Passing Through"
The curious.
Nikon D-700, Nikkor AF 60/2.8, No strobs
ISO 1250, f/11, 1/100
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