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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)
Red Scorpionfish (Scorpaena) Calvi Corsica.
A beautiful Nudibranch hunts for food on a sponge during a night dive
Pygmy seahorses - 2 of them on a Gorgonian
Octopus watching the camera from his "hidding" place.
Mystic flow-- anemone stomach opening.
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This looks like a moonscape, not a gastric moment!
Scorpion fish. Tobia Arba, Red Sea,Egypt. Sony W90.
Some more jewels from the Scillies
by Sipadan...2007/09/05~09.
Night dive just off the shore in Sogod Bay, Leyte. Looks like someone had dropped a can of beef loaf in the water, with some still left inside, and our friend here helped himself to a spicy dinner.
White striped cleaner shrimp, Lysmata grabhami.
Tiny red hermit crab struggling to free itself from a Sea Cucumber that has trapped it's home.
The isopod Cassidinopsis emarginata very common at the subantarctic kelp beds at the Strait of Magellan, Chile. Nikon Coolpix 995 and Subtronic strobres.
Imperator:Lembeh street 2007: Nikon D200 , two strobo, 60 macro nikon
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Top shrimp
Giant Frogfish.
Balancing Act - Image of shrimp taken in Bonaire with a Nikon D100 in a Aquatica housing with 105mm lens and ikelite strobes.
This image was taken on Sunday while diving in Roatan. The macro photography is great here. The Flamingo Tongue can sure wittle away at gorgonians
Octopus (octopus vulgaris).Showing a display of colours.Calvi Corsica
Octopus hiding in the rock. Panorama reef, Safaga, Egypt.
Pigmy Sea Horse North Sulawesi/LembehStrait
Brighty coloured starfish in the Indian ocean
Dahlia anemone ingesting a crab.
Menai Straits, N. Wales.
60mm.
An orange frogfish, at the Napantao marine sanctuary in Sogod Bay, Leyte.
A bunch of sargatia anenomes surrounding a nice sponge - Isles of Scilly UK
Taken at Tenggol Island - Olympus E-330 + 50mm macro lens
Christmas Tree worm - Grand Cayman - SP 350 Macro - Shore Dive
white hairy frogfish, Lembeh Strait KBR house reef
close up of false plum anemone
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