Search the Contest

Entries by Category
Entries by Sea
Entries by Country
or enter search text

forum forum Stats Portfolios Annual Medal Winners slide show Annual Medal Winners spam voting policy photo contest RSS feed rules

Weekly Hotshot

Monthly Winners

Monthly winners will be shown by the 10th of the following month

Upload a Photo

Our UW photo contest is the longest running and most prestigious online. If you want to make a name for yourself this is THE place to do it. See some famous publications about winning photos.

How the Contest Works?

Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - not swimming

19930 Entries Found: Page 410  of  739
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)
Fishs - Hippocampus guttulatus
Benny
Tube anemone.Nikon F100,60mm,f27.1/125,YS-120,RVP100.
Maybe a Warty Frogfish (Clown frogfish)
Corals
This Skeleton Shrimp (Caprella sp., size about 8mm) was very cooperating. It seems to say hello. :-)
Taken in Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola, FL.
Arrow crab and small buddy.
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus Bargabanti),
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
Solitary Gorgonian Hydroid (Ralpharia gorgoniae) on Little Cayman. This is a fairly rare creature in the Caymans, and I was very fortunate for the divemaster to spot this specimen.
The Eye of a Tench... :O) ...
Leaf Scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) - Crystal Bay, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000)
...
"Dancing" worm
Stargazer.
D300, 60mm AF-S
Corals
Hermit Crab hiding in pink fairy floss
An hawkfish hiding
Stone Fish
taken @ the ammo jetty
Tiny Whip Coral Goby,
D300, 105VR

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
we get lots of whip coral gobies but often too small in the frame. here's how you do it!
Tiny bubble coral goby
this was taken in Lembeh straights Dec 30th 2008 and is prime example of the amazing fish life in this area
Seahorse, Saba Island
blenny hanging out in a pipe...
Stenopus Spinosus
Sun Anemone Shrimp (Periclimenes rathbunae) from Bonaire.
moray eel & cleaning shrimp.Nikon F100,60mm,f27.1/125,YS-120,RVP100.
19930 Entries Found: Page 410  of  739