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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)

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350D 60mm macro ys90 strobes snake eel being cleaned b... by Stew Smith
350D 60mm macro ys90 strobes
snake eel being cleaned by the opticianus shrimp
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Orange Cup Coral in the Sea of Cortez.... by Thierry Lannoy
Orange Cup Coral in the Sea of Cortez....
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mexico
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Goby on coral by Dieter Decroos
Goby on coral
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Saudi Arabia
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Small fish hiding in soft coral by Terry Moore
Small fish hiding in soft coral
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Solomon Sea Papua New Guinea
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Christmas tree in a fire coral at the forest dive site in... by Victor J. Lasanta
Christmas tree in a fire coral at the forest dive site in parguera area!!
olympus sp-350,inon strobe, inon close up lens!!!
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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found in Estartit, F100 by Thomas Lueken
found in Estartit, F100
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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soft coral crab = 60mm macro NO cropping LEMBEH by Stew Smith
soft coral crab = 60mm macro
NO cropping
LEMBEH
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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A beautiful bearded scorpionfish in the Lhavijani Atoll/M... by Barbara Schilling
A beautiful bearded scorpionfish in the Lhavijani Atoll/Maldives
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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bunaken,nikon d2x 60mm macro by Puddu Massimo
bunaken,nikon d2x 60mm macro
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Christmas Tree worms on the coral on the inside reef at L... by Michael Kovach
Christmas Tree worms on the coral on the inside reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Dancing Shrimp Eye to Eye!!! Taken with Canon 400D in Mya... by Patrick Neumann
Dancing Shrimp Eye to Eye!!! Taken with Canon 400D in Myamar Burma
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Myanmar (Burma)
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anemone shrimp - Canon A640 by Ng Steven
anemone shrimp - Canon A640
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Goby by Cheng Cheng Lee
Goby
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Mating Blue Ring Octopus The Blue Ring Octopus (Hapaloc... by Paul Ng
by: Paul Ng
Mating Blue Ring Octopus
The Blue Ring Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) is the most venomous octopus. Its poison, a neurotoxin, can kill a person.
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date posted posted: Friday, May 16, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Goldspotted eel. by Juan Torres
Goldspotted eel.
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It's totally hard to get sea snakes and eels to sit in the frame - Juan has showed us how to do it here
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Spotted Snake Eel by Abimael Márquez
Spotted Snake Eel
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Imperator shrimp, Periclimenes imperator on a Discodoris ... by Anouk Houben
Imperator shrimp, Periclimenes imperator on a Discodoris boholiensis nudibranch. Picture taken on the Scuba-seraya housereef in North-east Bali.
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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?????/ by Walter Chong
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Bryozoans on a kelp frond - up close and personal. Nik... by Christian Skauge
Bryozoans on a kelp frond - up close and personal.
Nikon D200 in Nexus housing, 2x Inon Z-240 strobes, 105mm VR w/2x teleconverter.
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Final RoundThrough to 2008 awards final round judging

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Great abstract Christian - using patterns and depth of field
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Norwegian Sea Norway
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Two friends sharing guard duty by Glen Marier
Two friends sharing guard duty
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Jamaica
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Seahorse in Spanish water by Jean-Marie Brulhart
Seahorse in Spanish water
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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Anemone shot with Nikon S1 by Matthew Fyson
Anemone shot with Nikon S1
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Crocodile Fish head on, taken at Tufi Dive Resort by Terry Moore
Crocodile Fish head on, taken at Tufi Dive Resort
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Solomon Sea Papua New Guinea
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This is an Acadian hermit crab taken in the Bay of Fundy ... by Mike Strong
This is an Acadian hermit crab taken in the Bay of Fundy in about 30 feet.
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic Canada
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squat shrimp - lembeh by Stew Smith
squat shrimp - lembeh
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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flamingo tongue at super bowl dive site in parguera area by Victor J. Lasanta
flamingo tongue at super bowl dive site in parguera area
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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This photo was taken in Roatan. This Banded Coral Shrimp ... by Steven Anderson
This photo was taken in Roatan. This Banded Coral Shrimp found refuge in a Big Barrel Sponge.Almost looks like it is free floating but it was clinging to the sponges side.
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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