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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)
Starry blenny
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Common Names: Spotted hawkfish, blotched hawkfish, boar hawkfish, threadfin hawkfish on Barrel Sponge
Little Goby on whip coral
Three-headed eel
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2022
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Final RoundThrough to 2022 awards final round judging
Eye of a crodile fish. The eye has very nice details.
Skeleton shrimp
this animal is known as the bobtail squid, it is mainly found in the pacific ocean. this photo was taken during a night dive in Raja Ampat.
red
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Candy crab bokeh
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Shrimp with eggs
Bearded Goby
Garden ell, one of the hardest to shoot, but need to patient to take photograph and breathe very carefully to avoid the subject going down.
Not found them in lexicon...
Crab looks into the lens
Saw blade shrimp
Pleurosicya mossambica
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Dark Knight
Backlit Seahorse.
Red lipstick
Poor crab
Juvenile Batfish
A small sea star is climbing a "dead man's rope"
Dasycaris zanzibarica
Harlequin crab with snooted strobe light
red dots
Vir philippinensis (take this shot with an old camera with a white beam snoot + a blue light & red light torch)
Crab close up, Sony alpha a6400, Salted Line housing
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