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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)
"From the Top" Taylors Eel from a different perspective No cropping :o)
White Sea Horse in Anilao. Canon G10, Dual Inon UCL165 lenses, dual Sea and sea strobes
A qurrious blenny examines a small cleaner shrimp. I bet it is thinking ... Can i fit it in my mouth?
Night life, fluorescent coral polyps, Abu Dabbab, Marsa Alam Egypt. Shot with Sony w-300 ys-17 strobe.
Crinoid close-up. Anilao. Canon G10, dual Inon UCL165, dual Sea and Sea Strobes.
Pair of Coleman Shrimp on a Fire Urchin in Bali. G9/DS160s/Stacked UCL165s.
One shot from a sequence (on my flickr photostream) of two shrimps on two trailing nudibranchs....¸> <((((º> .....Canon G9 and Inon UCL-165's
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How does that man find such subjects, then shoot 'em pin sharp. Good job he has Jill as his spotter!
Criniod squat lobster. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
I hadn't seen a Smiling Blenny for a while so I obliged with one of my own. I only cropped a few pixels... ;-)
Skittles. A shy blue-banded goby on the reef at Anacapa Island. Shot with a Canon Digital Rebel and 60mm f/2.8 lens and dual Ikelite DS51 strobes.
Peekaboo crab - 105 + closeup lens, crab no more than 3-4mm across - did not help that he/she/it kept on running around, the little bundle of energy
Blenny shot with D300 and 105mm macro lens.
Hair galatea
Nikon D200, 105 micro, twin strobo
Manado 2008
Flying Gunard Face, Anilao. Canon G10, dual UCL-165 lenses (slight crop, 5% to get rid of vignette), and sea and sea strobes.
Zebra Crab on fire urchin
Swallow-tail Puller from Madivaru at Kuramathi Maldives
Blennies, Tulamben
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super 'pussycat' shot
Xeno Crab on Whip-Coral.
Nikon D2Xs in Seacam housing + Seacam flash.
"Peek-a-Boo"
Super Macro Image of a Hairy Squat Lobster. Taken with D200 and 105mm lens.
Durban dancing shrimp
found these 3 Western Australian seahorses kicking back in the swan river
Tube Dwelling Anemone, a very nicely colored Tube Dwelling Anemone. Canon G10, dual UCL165 closeup lenses, and Sea and Sea YS110a and YS27DX Strobes
Red Kelpfish
Hermit crab
Night dive, Bandar Jissa
F5.1, 1/60, spot metering, both strobes, half power
"Hope"
Canon G7
"Sweet as Candy" Nikon D200, 60mm +2 diopter, twin Z240's. Full Frame
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