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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)
At night, the blue-ringed octopus walks under the water
Pooping Pink Eye Goby
Pygmy seahorse
Seahorse in the adriatic sea
Spotlight Spectacle / Harlequin Crab’s Dance with Anemone
Nudi Branch in coral garden
Ring of Fire Shrimp (combination of color lights, snoot and prims lens)
This Hairy Frog fish image was taken with a Mini flash snoot.
I found this spectacular red & white spotted pygmy goby while diving off South Ari Atoll in the Maldives. I was lucky to capture this normally timid fish before it darted back into a coral crevasse.
Pipefish with skeleton shrimp
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f14, 1/100.
Skeleton shrimp
Coral Scorpion fish hiding in hard coral. Shot in Dahab, Egypt with a G7XMkII and 2 x s2000 strobes
Strawberry Anemones take over in armies.
Moray eel hiding in a bottle.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f/20, 1/125, Ikelite housing with two Ikelite strobes.
Pink is beautiful.
Goby on whip coral with pink coral in the background.
Dive site San Miguel, Dauin.
Nikon D750 with Nikon 105mm lens, f18, 1/125, ISO 100, Ikelite housing with two Ikelite strobes.
STENOPUS HISPIDUS
REUNION 2022
Seahorse on fire
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
shortlistedShortlisted!
HUÎTRE CORALLICOLE - Pedum spondyloideum
REUNION 2023
Symbioses, living together.
Boxer crab carrying eggs
We were finishing up a dive when our dive guide was pointing at a couple of juvenile flying fish. He held his hand up and one stopped at his hand and I was lucky to snap this photo. Nikon D850 / 60mm lens / z330 INON strobes.
The singer
I found this spectacular Leaf Scorpionfish chilling on some staghorn coral while diving around Beqa Lagoon, Fiji.
Candy crab
Sueviota bryozophila
Olympus
Olympus
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