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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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Anemone shrimp -- WITH EGGS! by Larissa Roorda
Anemone shrimp -- WITH EGGS!
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Solomon Sea Solomon islands
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Red Bristled Hermit Crab, Taken on night dive Maumere Bay... by Rory Ferguson
Red Bristled Hermit Crab, Taken on night dive Maumere Bay
Sony T3
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Sponge of Boynton Beach Florida. by Robert Palmer
Sponge of Boynton Beach Florida.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Baby Moray Eel by Louwrens De Lange
Baby Moray Eel
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Orangutan crab on bubble coral, Achaeus japonicus by Larry Polster
Orangutan crab on bubble coral, Achaeus japonicus
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Fan worm taken at Scotsman's Reef in Port Elizabeth,ISO20... by Anthony Wooldridge
Fan worm taken at Scotsman's Reef in Port Elizabeth,ISO200 F2.6 1.60
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Crab using sponges for camoflage, taken on a night dive a... by Nikki Van Veelen
Crab using sponges for camoflage, taken on a night dive at Ras Umm Sid.
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sun Anemone Shrimp by Abimael Márquez
Sun Anemone Shrimp
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Arrow crab. taken at canary islands off morocco by John Naylor
Arrow crab. taken at canary islands off morocco
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Black Spotted Eel, St. Vincent, Critter Corner by Kay Wilson
Black Spotted Eel, St. Vincent, Critter Corner
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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another double - but fighting , Lembeh, F100 by Thomas Lueken
another double - but fighting , Lembeh, F100
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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flamingo tongue in love at window dive site in parguera a... by Victor J. Lasanta
flamingo tongue in love at window dive site in parguera area!!
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Neosimnia spelta, a small gastropod mollusc, crawling ove... by Joao Pedro Tojal Loia Soares Silva
Neosimnia spelta, a small gastropod mollusc, crawling over its gorgonian food, Leptogorgia sarmentosa.
Shot in Sesimbra using a Canon EOS 300D in Nimar housing, Sigma 50mm macro, Ikelite MV and Nikonos SB-105 strobes.
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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Lizardfish, up close and personal. Nikon D200 in Nexus ho... by Christian Skauge
Lizardfish, up close and personal. Nikon D200 in Nexus housing, Inon Z-240 strobes.
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Lizardfish, Lembeh by Doug Anderson
Lizardfish, Lembeh
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date posted posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Deep-sea squat lobster, Chirostylus dolichopus. Picture t... by Anouk Houben
Deep-sea squat lobster, Chirostylus dolichopus. Picture taken at Gato Island, Philippines.
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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St. Vincent Frog Fish by Kay Wilson
St. Vincent Frog Fish
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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very close up look to a fire coral at two for you dive si... by Victor J. Lasanta
very close up look to a fire coral at two for you dive site in parguera area!!
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Another Polycera... this one was sitting on a dark kelp f... by Christian Skauge
Another Polycera... this one was sitting on a dark kelp frond. Photographed with little light it seems to be floating in thin air... eh, water.
Nikon D200 in Nexus housing, Inon Z-240 strobes. Nikkor 105 mm, manual, ISO 100, f/16, 1/60.
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Even in cold water nudis provide colorful subjects
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: North Sea Norway
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Elegant Flatworm in the bay of Alona Beach by Philip Dacre
Elegant Flatworm in the bay of Alona Beach
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Long lure frog fishes by Kay Wilson
Long lure frog fishes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Polyps under a ledge. This was shot by my wife Maya in G... by Ken Gunde
Polyps under a ledge. This was shot by my wife Maya in Grace Bay on Provodenciales on April 13. Natural light and shallow (less than 50')
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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Christmas Tree Worm taken with a Sea and Sea DX-1G Camera by Anna Wright
Christmas Tree Worm taken with a Sea and Sea DX-1G Camera
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Hello, welcome to my home, Bonaire. by Abimael Márquez
Hello, welcome to my home, Bonaire.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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acropora cervicornis in break down reef at parguera area!!! by Victor J. Lasanta
acropora cervicornis in break down reef at parguera area!!!
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Seahorse. Police peir. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Seahorse. Police peir. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Dendrophyllia ramea by Vittorio Durante
Dendrophyllia ramea
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 26, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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