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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)
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Red Sea Anemone Fish in Bubble Anemone, taken in September 2005 in Southern Red Sea using Sony DSC-T1/YS-25 Auto strobe.
Stout Moray, South Maui, Hawaii. D100, 105mm lens, Light and Motion housing.
Leaf Sea Slug in the Bahamas 2005
Anemonia viridis shot at the Algarve - shot with Olympus c750 internal flash only
Portrait of a scorpion fish. Puerto Galera, Mindoro.
flamingo tounge. near walkers cay, bahamas. canon s70, inon macro, natural light.
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Titan Scorpion, South Maui, Hawaii. Light and Motion housing, D100, 105mm lens. all but invisible when its mouth is shut.
Atlantic hairy triton, Curacao
No Thanks! I Had Soft Coral for Lunch - Two flamingo tongue snails shamelessly devour a nice purple gorgonian. Bonaire, 105mm macro
Velvet swimming crab.
Dresden, Scapa Flow.
F90X, 60mm.
Spawning bearded fireworm
Spyder Crab details.
Starfish - Catalina Island, CA.
Wee porcupine...
Leatherback, taken w/ an Olympus SP-350, internal flash.
A Proud Octopus - A bright-eyed Octopus vulgaris seems to almost preen for the camera, just before sunset on "Harry's Hole" Reef, Curacao.
Nudi- Great Barrier Reef c5060 Light and Motion housing Macro wetmate lens
Carpet Shark
Alderman Islands
New Zealand
Fairy Basslet nikon d100 105mm
The Bar Tender. Lembeh Straits.
D2x 105mm, 2xteleconverter
Anemone
Alderman Islands New Zealand
White hairy frogfish against black sand background
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Editor's Comment
Surely this guy wasn't sitting on black sand in the open water? Nice pic anyway
Tiny pygmy sea Horse in soft coral host taken with Nikon F100 and a 105 macro lens with a diotre
Arc-Eye Hawkfish hiding in some coral at Angler's Reef in Oahu, Hawaii. How his eye is squished against the coral trips me out. It looks like someone stuck a flashlight in his mouth and lit him up. Sony P100 w/ Inon macro
taken with nikon coolpix 5900
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