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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)
crab waiting for lunch
Leopard shark in Bida Nok, Phi Phi Islands, Canon EOS 350d 18-55mm
Steady now! Clown Frogfish, taken @ Lembeh, Indonesia.
Snake eel, Canon EOS 400D with Sea and sea housing and strobes
cowrie in punta west, mactan
Spider Crab, Lembeh Strait home of so many great muck dives!
hermit crab on a night dive. 60mm macro 350D sea and sea ys90's. full frame
Map cowrie at night
Stonefish "Don Petro" Housereef at ElQuseir , Canon S70
Fingered Dragonet. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
Hermit Crab
Another "passenger" for a sea cocumber. Lembeh Streit.
secretary blenny in a boulder star coral at two for you dive site in parguera Puerto Rico..
Mantis coming way out of it's hole in Lembeh. Olympus E300 50mm + 1.4TC.

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Quality shot, well worth a zoom
Huge mouth on this frog fish
Yellow Angel! Pygmy Seahorse. Pic taken at Lembeh, Indonesia.
Shy Guy! Taken in Perhentian Island with Canon G9 & Inon Z240 strobe. Full frame!
Lacy Scorpionfish(Rhinopias aphanes).
Casio EX-Z1000. 8mm F/5.6 1/60Sec.2008/6/7 .
Juvenile Painted Frogfish, about 2 cm. Secret Bay, Anilao.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2008 awards final round judging
Yellowhead Jawfish doing the its normal pop in/pop out dance.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Christmas tree in symmetrical brain coral at engine dive site in parguera Puerto Rico....
A close up of a basket star, taken at Chelsea North in Port Elizabeth using a Canon S570is, ISO100 f2.6 1/60.
Peacock grouper posing although I got no smile.
Olympus SP 550 UZ
Kona, Hawaii
Rhinopias yawn. Lembeh Strait
60mm macro full frame
Black frogfish sitting on his OUTLOOK fishing for compliments, Canon S70 with macro lens and
Inon Z240
Shy leopard blenny hiding inside staghorn coral, Koh Bon, north of Similan Islands, Canon EOS 350d 18-55mm
pederson cleaner shrimp in a green tube tunicate at v.j.levels dive site in parguera Puerto Rico...
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