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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)
Plenty of these cheeky Toadfish around the Exmouth Navy Pier. They litterally croak, hence the name!
Hawksbill turtle at night.
Taken with Nikonos V, Ikelite SB50, 35mm, extension tube.
Anemone crab taken at Bida Nai, Phi Phi Island. Artificial light source is a dive torch.
Just a whip goby. I love their eyes.
Hi - Apologies - but another Scilly (isles of ) shot - this time cose up of a nudibranch......
Octopus. Maldives 2006.
Seahorse portrait, taken at Bare Island Sydney

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Nice underwater equestrian!
Lettuce or Wig for one of Dave's Muppets?
Nudibranch on Coral. Taken with Nikonos V with extension tube on a night dive in the Bahamas.
Lobster, night dive. DX5000. Islamorada Key, Florida.
I like it's backround!
taken with a Sony DSC F-828 in an Ikelite housing and DS 125 external strobe
Sand star.
Muck dive off Isle of Lewis.
D200, 60mm.
Leopard Shark accompanied by golden pilot trevallies, taken at Bida Nok, Phi Phi Island
Mantis shrimp, Wakatobi 2005.
Cuorious Bavosa
Isola d'Elba
Canon Digital Ixus 700 - Case WP-DC70
This Porcelen Crab was shoot in Ambon bay..
Dumb looking orange frogfish hanging from the underside of an overhang.. buoyancy tester.. Gato Island.. Philies
Great Star Coral polyps during the day
Do you want to be a star?
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2006

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Imagine, you get your leg chopped off so you grow a new body from it!
Another nudi for today named “Much-Desired Flabellina”; and it was in deed much desired; I had to go up side down against the wall to get it.
Jewel Grouper taken at Palong, Phi Phi Island
Eye of the Pyramid.
Pygmy Seahorse, Southern Leyte, Philippines. Taken at 30 metres with flash on macro setting.
Paguro Tubicolo
Isola d'Elba
Canon Digital Ixus 700 - Case WP-DC70
Holding hands or something a little more intimate????????????? Off Komodo with D100, 60mm, twin SB105
Starry Chelodonura Nudi.
Devonshire cup coral from the Isles of Scilly - Nikon D70s and 60mm macro
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