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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame
batfish
batfish
goby
Hippocampus face
Sandiver Portrait, St, Thomas.
Tube-worm Blenny
Xenon Crab
Clownfish looking out from a closed anemone.
Taken around pom pom island in 2012
Canon 50D, 60mm macro, 2 Inon strobes
glass shrimp
NIKON D7000 in a Seacam "Prelude" uw housing, 105mm Macro (NIKKOR)
Settings: f10, 1/80, ISO 100
Lobsterface Fluo Dive
Parrotfish at night...
1st attempt at fluorescence. quite frustrating
Bluespotted ribbontail ray
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There are many such shots but this one stands our due to the shades that emphasize the eyes. I like it.
Due cuori e un barattolo 2
The Look
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Cup corals
Cute little box fish
denise
puffer fish with a funny model
Napoleon
Due cuori e un barattolo
Not an artistic pic, but a lucky shot: A pink squat lobster right after moulting with his skin (Cabilao, Visayas)
Lion Fish - Taken off the shore of Lauderdale by the Sea in Florida
Spearing Mantis Shrimp @ Anilao
Frogfish Portrait
Posing Mushroom Coral Shrimps in Panabolon, Dauin
Orangutan Crab @ Cape Maeda Misaki, Okinawa
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