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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)
Sea urchin @ Lembeh strait
shortlistedShortlisted!
tiny cowrie well camouflaged on a soft coral
Nikon F-100 with 105mm macro lens
60mm Nikon D80
Taken with Canon A640 and Inon D2000 by Luke Ho
by: Luke Ho
Taken with Canon A640 and Inon D2000
Sleepy leaf scorpionfish.
This juv. blacktip grouper (epinephelus fasciatus) has well adapted to the patchwork of coral (colours).
Dark 2
hawk fish,nikon f90x 105mm macro
Anemone
Crinoid squat lobster

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This looks like an alien landscape!
CASIO EX-Z1000...8mm...F/5.6...1/60sec...2008/2/5. 12:53.
Xiao Liu Qiu, TAIWAN..
Eggs of nudibranch, macro cybershot sony T5
NikonD80 60mm macro lens
Dark 1
YAWN/Marissa Reef,Samal Island,Davao City
The lenth's some sponges will go to to be photographed just because divers like seahorse's.
just for fun this entry no votes required.
Xeno crab, Xenocarcinus tuberculatus. Picture taken at Gato island, Philippines.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Slug at Malapascua
Soft Coral Crab - on the house reef at the resort. This little crab had attached the large piece of soft coral to its head the previous day which my friend Adam observed and shot with his camera. Learn something new everyday: Crab's have hairstyles!
Captured in Bunaken, Manado, Indonesia
Whip coral goby. Picture taken on the second reef off Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp
porcelain crab
Different angle on a whipcoral goby, taken at Shark Observatory with E300.
Pico Pato or Bogavante eel, similar to a moray eel, although golden coloured. Harmless, but threatening.
Nudibranchia (Dermatobranchus gonatophora )
CASIO EX-Z1000...8mm...F/5.6...1/60Sec. 2008/2/5 12:53
Xiao Liu Qiu,TAIWAN.
Quintopus - a five-armed mimic octopus.
Lembeh.
60mm.
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