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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)
A "Shocked" gobie on wire coral. D2x 105mm w/2xtc
Eye of a Hamit crab (Auge eines Einsiedlerkrebs)
red bed , f100 in sea and sea housing.
Shrimp taken at MFO Pipeline, Nuweiba with Olympus E-300
Giant clam taken behind Christo Rei with an Olympus C8080
this beautiful nudibranch lives just off Mabul island, Malaysia
lemon coral goby
Taken at Mantabuan Island, East Malaysia
Everything is bigger in Thailand.
Pencil Urchin. Maui, Hawaii.
big froggie, sitting motionlessly under the Seadventure platform off Mabul.
Pygmy seahorse in Lembeh 2003 hard enough to see these little critters even harder to take a photo of them.
Little filefish seeking protection inside of a jellyfish
Taken at Mataking Island, East Malaysia
spotted eel with christmas tree worm
Close encounter with a Blue spotted ribbontail ray, spotted just south of Dahab
ambushed ,f100 and 105 in sea and sea housing
Yellow mouth moray 105mm macro
Nudibranch tail, I love the colors of this picture. I was quite deep when I took the picture and was nearing deco time so I only got one shot, but I like the result.
Small Blennie on coral. D2x, 105mm, 2xTC.
photo by night of a crocodile-fish (thysanophrys arenicola); I like especially the eyebrows of that fish.
Squat Lobster. One Flash on a Nikonous RS
Small white frogfish hanging out in Puerto Galera, Philippines. Olympus mju400 last year...
In Roatan there are lots of Christmas Tree Worms on just about every piece of coral.This photo was taken with a DC500 made by Sealife w/ 1 Digital Strobe.
Boxer crab on Sea Star. Mabul Island, Borneo. Was searching for boxer crabs in secret dive site on Mabul. I flipped over a sea star and there was this boxer crab sitting perfectly in the middle of the star.
From there to here, from here to ther, funny things are everywhere!
Today's dive - It's a party. A Mustache Conger Eel with a pair of Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp. There is another fish in the right hand corner...maybe a Scorpionfish?
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