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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)
Goby on red coral branch, taken off the South shore of Ma... by Cindy Campbell
Goby on red coral branch, taken off the South shore of Maui, using a 60mm lens.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific United States
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One of many feather stars along a wall off Kizimkazi, Zan... by Julie Rieu
One of many feather stars along a wall off Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Tanzania
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Octo trying to give me the look while he is hiding inside... by Larry Medenilla
Octo trying to give me the look while he is hiding inside a sand covered slipper. Olympus sp350
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Christmas Tree Worm seen in Grand Cayman August 2008. Ph... by Bonnie Conley
Christmas Tree Worm seen in Grand Cayman August 2008. Photo taken with a Canon SD550.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Stynray's eye - Nikon D70S - 105 macro - DS160 by Alberto D'este
Stynray's eye - Nikon D70S - 105 macro - DS160
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Sudan
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Inside the crinoid,nikond2x 105mm macro by Puddu Massimo
Inside the crinoid,nikond2x 105mm macro
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Night diving, black sand, Indonesia. by Gregory Sin
Night diving, black sand, Indonesia.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Fireworm taken at Korcula island at cca 25m. Resting on a... by Dejan Mavric
Fireworm taken at Korcula island at cca 25m. Resting on a gorgonian where it feeds. Olympus SP350 in macro mode, no strobe at all, manual setting ISO200, 1/50s, f/4.5

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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Croatia
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I have no idea what this thing is, and getting a macro fo... by Andrew Macleod
I have no idea what this thing is, and getting a macro focus was not easy.... casio z1200
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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This Lionfish was tucked into a wreck in the Bahamas. Ph... by Jeri Curley
This Lionfish was tucked into a wreck in the Bahamas. Photo taken with Olympus Evolt E-300 with Inon strobe.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (South) Bahamas
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Bearded Fire Worm (hermodice carunculata) by Marko Perisic
Bearded Fire Worm (hermodice carunculata)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Croatia
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"Three Bargibanties"; met in the Raja Ampat, West Papua by Henry Jager
"Three Bargibanties"; met in the Raja Ampat, West Papua
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Speckled Sandperch. While diving from Pelagian off the c... by Allan Vandeford
Speckled Sandperch. While diving from Pelagian off the coast of Wangi Wangi we encountered many of these little guys. Mostly found in rubble or on the sandy bottom they are very skiddish and thereby difficult to photograph this close.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Doctor fish on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea by Michael Kovach
Doctor fish on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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We saw the orange rhino when from out of the soft corals ... by Larry Medenilla
We saw the orange rhino when from out of the soft corals came hopping a white lacey rhino... Can it be 2 holy grails??!! It was one of my best dive feeling in years wink Canon G9
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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ANENOME CRAB by Steve Jenness
ANENOME CRAB
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific United States
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taken with canon g9... by Chong Hanwan
taken with canon g9...
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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All do claimed to be endogenous of Cozumel this picture ... by Hilario Itriago
All do claimed to be endogenous of Cozumel this picture was taken in Cancun's reefs.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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father & son canon 400d + macro 60 mm canon by Fabrizio Pompilio
father & son
canon 400d + macro 60 mm canon
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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An Anemone in the famous "Etang de Thau" in France by Michel Lonfat
An Anemone in the famous "Etang de Thau" in France
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Scorpion fish at bunaken island by Victor Wong
Scorpion fish at bunaken island
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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f/11.2, 1/68, -0.3ev, ISO 100, 15.3mm, shot in Bonaire on... by Jonathan Cole
f/11.2, 1/68, -0.3ev, ISO 100, 15.3mm, shot in Bonaire on the Yellow Sub house reef. They zap around, got to get real close real slow, and snap before they jet off to another microscopic patch!
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Lizard Fish, D300, Nikkor 60mm AFS Macro, 2x YS-110 strobes by Kay Burn Lim
Lizard Fish, D300, Nikkor 60mm AFS Macro, 2x YS-110 strobes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Rombo di mare (Bothus podas podas) by Francesco Pacienza
Rombo di mare (Bothus podas podas)
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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The silhouette of a nudibranch~ Different Feeling~~ by Tommy Liu
The silhouette of a nudibranch~ Different Feeling~~
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific Taiwan
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Two cleaners, no waiting. Honeycomb Cod being tended to ... by Ross Gudgeon
Two cleaners, no waiting. Honeycomb Cod being tended to by a Cleaner Wrasse and a Cleaner Shrimp. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 20D, Canon 100 macro & Tamron 2X teleconverter
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Scorpion Fish in action at Vieques, PR. by Juan Torres
Scorpion Fish in action at Vieques, PR.
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 30, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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