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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)
Bubble coral shrimp with eggs - Mayotte
Porcelain crab, Neopterolisthes maculatus - Mayotte
Spotted cleaner shrimp
Hairy squat lobster Bunaken
Escape Cloak...This little guy used two arms to cover his head with sand and then slowly started walking away...Brilliant Camoflauge!
Pygmy pipe-horse fish (male)
Feeding flatworm - Mayotte
Warty Frogfish Standing at the Ready
Freeze!
Hairy pygmy pipehorse - Mayotte
Whipcoral shrimp well camouflaged
Cleaning the teeth of Skeletor.
Shrimp on teeth of Crocodile Snake Eel
Open wide!
Mantis Shrimp just before lunging out to "punch" at my camera! Notice the wonky eyes..
Golden zoanthids with green rope sponge, under fluorescence. 50mm macro, twin Light n Motion UV lights.
T H E . Z E N Z I - B A R
Whip coral shrimp (Dasycaris zanzibarica)
Mactan Island, Philippines. January 2015
Backlit thorny seahorse
Ambon, Maluku Islands, Indonesia

Subal underwater housing, Canoin 5D m2, Canon EF100 macro, f25, 1/200s, ISO200, Inon Z240 remote strobe,
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Reading a Book
Porcelain Crab with Snoot
Porcelain crab, Mayotte
Rx100-II and UCL-100 lens, single z-240
Sponge Dancer - this guy was dancing on the sponge trying to attract attention to himself
tube worm - serpula vermicularis
Blowin' In the Wind
Baby Frogfish approximately 7mm in length.
W H I T E . D O T
Brownstripe hydroid shrimp with eggs (Rapipontonia paragalene)
Pom Pom Island, Malaysia. March 2015
Jvenile goatfish on a UV nightdive class.
Anemone Porcelain crab (Neopetrolisthes maculatus)
Nabucco Islands, Indonesia
Pygmy Sea Horse - Full Frame.
At Home in it's Fan
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Arrow crab on a sea cucumber
'Do not disturb'
Vomer Conch, Euprotomus Vomer | Dumaguete, Philippines.

Subal underwater housing, Canon 5D mk2, Canon 100mm Macro, f25, 1/200, ISO200, Inon Z240 strobe and fibre optic snoot.
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