Search the Contest

Entries by Category
Entries by Sea
Entries by Country
or enter search text

forum forum Stats Portfolios Annual Medal Winners slide show Annual Medal Winners spam voting policy photo contest RSS feed rules

Weekly Hotshot

Monthly Winners

Monthly winners will be shown by the 10th of the following month

Upload a Photo

Our UW photo contest is the longest running and most prestigious online. If you want to make a name for yourself this is THE place to do it. See some famous publications about winning photos.

How the Contest Works?

Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - not swimming

19930 Entries Found: Page 670  of  739
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)
Blue spotted ray under a ledge, Exmouth, Western Aus.
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Puffer fish taken on sea bed at 20m North Selawesi KBR resort muck diving Jan 2006
Angry octopus caught on a night dive at Mgarr Ix Xini on Gozo.
Two tambja nudibranches in the Poor Knights
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Full Frame Imperial Nuddy. About 1.5cm long. Oahu south shores. Double Stackable Inon macro lenses on a Sony P100 (point n shoot style baby!)
A rare sighting of the PSCS2 "Happy Scorpionfish". Maui, Hawaii. Maybe he got hold of some island home grown. Dude!
Dr. Bob's photos have ispired me to get a +10 dipter and see what I could come up with. Catching this Xmas tree worm midstream seemed a bit different.
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
A nice tube sponge on the wall of South Water Cay Marine Reserve in Belize.
Slipper lobster. Not difficult to see why people call them "bugs".
Portrait of a Titan Scorpion. Maui, Hawaii. D100 and 105 lens.
Anenome. Bonaire. Using Canon Powershot S40 in Macro mode. Fortunately anenomes don't move very fast.
'Looking up the stem'Soft coral- The Great Barrier Reef
Anemonefish taken in Lighthouse Bay on the Ningaloo Reef. Sea & Sea MX10 and strobe.
Tulamben wreck, Bali is a great place for macro photography. I love the colours of this cowrie shell.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
good diagonals
Octopus Hiding Under a Reef - Glovers Atoll, Belize. Olympus C4040z, PT010 housing, Sea Life SL960D strobe.
brute face
Flabellina pellucida
Picture taken at Hitra, Norway
shortlistedShortlisted!

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Nudi's look good in cold water too
Moray which hasn't got round to brushing its teeth after a meal, there are scales impaled on them!
Urchins are very underappreciated. I loved the design and coloration patterns when you get close.
Phidiana militaris on a Wreck in the Gulf of Oman
Nudibranche and tunicate on Sipadan Wall. taken with a canon ixus 400
Bubble coral shrimp (Vir philippiniensis). Nikon F-90, TTL, nikkor micro 60mmm
Flabellina affinis - Mar mediterraneo - Isola di Giannutri - Nikonos III macro 1:1
19930 Entries Found: Page 670  of  739