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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)
Boxer Crab
Harlequin shrimp.
"Bowling Around"
Bowling Pin Nudi at Macabuca, Grand Cayman
SPA Procedures
Pigmy pipe-horse. This kind of sea horse is ~30mm and can be found only in a small area in NSW
Spirals - the basic form of life. This is un-cropped.
look through lobster
a real tiny shrimp on a whip coral
Flame shell
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Home is where the heart is
Christmas candy ..
Teddi's submarine adventures - encounter with a nudi
Evening Bloomers.
Partial focusing
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Dreamy shade
"Party for Three"
Two Fingerprints and a Flamingo Tongue sharing a soft coral.
The future life
"Ahhhh, almost fireworks time"
Secretary blenny
White Xtree
haedwave between the coral
“Don't have a cow, Man!” Crab - Schizophrys sp. Chaloklum, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f8-iso100-Inon D2000x2
Crab in the moonlight
I challenge myself to get a shot of these little guys with the mouth open (showing teeth) and with the reflection of the strobes in the eye. This is an uncropped image, with minimal editing.
Patagonian scallop (Zygochlamys patagonica), from could water. They live on the bottom supported on their right valve.
I found this tiny banded coral shrimp on the Oro Verde shipwreck. To photograph it, I framed it within the piece of twisted metal hull where it was hiding. Shot with f/3.5 to focus on the body and blur the antennae.
Zanzibar whip coral shrimp
flamingo tongues
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