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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)
banded coral shrimp taking a shower under a feather duster. Shot with D300 and 105mm lens.
Tube worm closeups. Canon G10, dual Inon UCL165 and dual Sea and Sea Strobes. Anilao.
"I'm Bored" Orange frogfish caught yawning!
Banded Coral Shrimp-Canon 5D MK II,100 mm macro with 1.4 Kenko-Bonaire
sailfin blennie
Giant Frogfish
Open the Hatch! Giant Frogfish in Davao. Notice the colorful tongue and throat. G9/DS160s.
Moses sole (Pardarchirus marmoratus).
Taken with Fuji F50 and Fantasea Nano strobe.
Hermit crab with anemones. Saint-Florent Bay, Corsica. Canon G10.
Scorpion Fish
Rough Fileclam and Hermit Crab on a night dive-Canon 100 mm full frame-Bonaire 2009
Portrait of an Hawkfish longnose (Oxycirrhites typus) on a gorgonian.
Nikon 801s film camera + 60 macro Ikelite housing&strobe.
Hermit crab taken at the Barge on a night dive. A site that never fails to offer some great subjects
Scorpionfish on coral (portrait) Nikkor 60mm, manual focus
Featherstar Shrimp, 105mm manual focus
Dwarf lionfish. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
"The Hitch Hiker" Imperator shrimp catching a ride on Ceratosoma tenue
Frogfih portrait. Canon G10, dual inon UCL165, dual sea and sea strobes. Anilao, Philippines!
Flying Gunard in full spread. Canon G10, dual Inon UCL165, and dual sea and sea strobes
Panther flounder(Bothus pantherinus)
Taken with Fuji F50 and Fantasea nano strobe
A pair of box crabs. The dive master explained their behavior when we finished the dive. Male was picking up female and moving her from spot to spot. He had to find just the right spot to settle into the sand. Very comical!
A common garden eel taken in Little Cayman.
105mm.
When I shotted this photo, at -45 m in Bunaken, was the year 2000, at that time not many u/w photographers known the Pigmy Seahorse, also I not know !
Only when I showed the slide to an expert byologist he said me that was a rare seahorse.
Triangles - Sony W-300, YS-17 Strobe
Durban Hinge-beak Shrimp taken at Wakatobi with canon S70 and UCL 165
Canon G10, dual Inon close-up lenses; dual sea and sea strobes. Nice moray looking at the lenses.
First upload with new account. Smiling ???? (not sure of fish ID) taken in Anilao, 2009. Canon G10, dual Inon close-up lenses and dual sea and sea strobes
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