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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)
Common Lionfish shot at Garang Heng, Phi Phi Island
Lobsters are your friends...not food!
Look close, tell me what you see...
Shrimp hunting Polychaetes. Taken with Nikonos V with macro extention on night dive in the Bahamas.
Two Peppermint Shrimp housed in a sponge.
I was very happy to get this shy underwater creature pose in front of my lens in the dark cave in Madeira.
Scorpionfish. It was perched on a rock so I was able to get below him and get a blue background. Heavy surge - trouble holding camera still. DX5000. Islamorada Key, Florida.
Harlequin crab on a coral head... gotta love his eyes...
Today’s lucky shot is a Girdled Glossodoris, I had never seen it before in Perhentian, only once in Lembeh. C5050.
nudibrancs
White cup coral.
Isle of Lewis, Hebrides.
D200, 60mm.
Orange Ball Corallimorph (Psuedocorynactis caribbeorum) from night dive in Bonaire. Taken with Canon A70 using internal flash. They start to close up if light is shone on them, so you don't get long to frame the shot.
This is from the Philippines.
Snail foto taken during a dive in the adriatic sea near Biograd na moru/Croatia
60mm lens, Nikon F80
Conger Eel in the naturepark Telascica in Croatia.
Different view of a Flamingo Tongue. Grand Cayman. Nikon D70 105mm
This banded coral shrimp has no qualms standing his ground.
coral crab. Lot of patience
Seahorse in the adriatic.
Muscat Oman, Sea&Sea 8000G in DX800G housing.
Stretch, two three, four!
Another shot from the scillies - this time a nudibranch on a sea fan - thanks to Allen for spotting it - D70s 60mm lens.
Different day, different angle but same crab. C5050
Peekaboo ... strawberry lookalike nudi in Taiwan. Anyone know his name ? Dave ? E900 twin strobes 2 macros
Xeno Crab.
Goniodoris castanea
This little fella was at a site around Puerto Galera.
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