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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)
Squat lobster on cushion star
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Christian could have put the squattie in the center but rightly opted for a 'rule of thirds' composition
"Hard Coral Polyps" - try to imagine its real size!
Theese eyes...
Picture taken during a night dive off Padang Bai, Bali.
EOS 5D, 100 mm macro, ...
Snack Time at Redang Island. Taken with Olympus E330 + 50mm Macro Lens
Golden Seahorse, Salvatierra Wreck, La Paz
Another little beauty of Perhentian muck dive 350D/70mm
White margin nudi laying eggs. Taken on Oahu's North shore.
Rough Head Blenny
Snapper Hole
Grand Cayman
Janolus Barbarensis, Santa Barbara Nudidude. Taken in California with a Olympus SP-350 in a Olympus PT-30 housing with one slave UFL-1 Strobe.
Eleganza
Portrait shot of scopionfish
Goby on whip coral, taken at farasan Banks, Saudi Arabia.
Blenny portrait taken with E300 and 105mm lens.
Detail of a gorgonian (Eunicella verrucosa) showing the open polips. Shot in Sesimbra, Portugal, using a Canon EOS 300D in Nimar housing, Sigma 50mm macro, Ikelite MV and Nikonos SB-105 strobes.
Flat Worm, just after landing. Taken with Canon G7.
Spiral Tube Worm swaying in the current. Calvi Corsica.
Taken on a night dive. He had so much confidence in his disguise that he didn't move at all, even when we nudged him a bit.
Well camouflaged. Taken in Safaga, Egypt. Sony DSC W90.
taken by Canon G7 with Inon D-2000 strobe
Scorpionfish taken at Sharksbay with E300 and 105mm lens.
A pair of Flamingo Tongues Mating
Anemone Crab
Stoned Fish...
Stonefish on the seabed. Moments later he took a fish and I didn´t get it on my camera.
Nudibranch Chromodoris Annae off Pemuteran North West Bali.
Yellow Rhinopia on the black sand of lembeh Strait.
Moray Portrait - Taken in Puerto Rico with a Nikonos RS, 50mm lens and SB103 strobe.
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