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Steven MillerA very low tide on Wakatobi's House Reef
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/92126.jpg)
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Steven MillerThis very large turtle sees his reflection in the big dome.
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Steven MillerSurface chop made over-unders difficult here, so this is a composite of two images shot for this purpose, then layered in Perfect Photo Suite, then painted out the top half to let the other image show through.
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James DeverichWinged Pipe Fish
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Steven MillerAre you finished yet? My buddy seemed to think it took me too long to light this anemone properly.
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Steven MillerCuttlefish garden
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Steven MillerClownfish glow
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Steven MillerSquarespot Anthias took awhile to hold still
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/93775.jpg)
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Steven MillerCommon soft coral, uncommonly flat sea, and snell some nice clouds.
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Steven MillerSpirals
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Steven MillerSolar powered Nudibranch- Macro subject with a wide lens, if this is categorized wrong apologies, -it's a big Nudi
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Steven MillerBig clam for here, and more open than you usually see them. Dome was an inch away.
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Steven MillerNatural Over/Under B&W
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Steven MillerClose focus wide angle framing
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Steven MillerFlying..Fisheye lens and Snell's window
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Steven MillerGrab shot
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Steven Millersome small shrimp in a crinoid
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/94100.jpg)
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Steven MillerBig soft coral, small aperture, very close
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Steven MillerLionfish pose
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Steven MillerPhotographer at work. This Cuttlefish stayed put after we were done, a perfect subject.
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Steven MillerDynamic water line.
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Steven MillerCuttlefish posing. After several wardrobe changes, the red and white won out over the yellow outfit
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Steven MillerComposite
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/100220.jpg)
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Steven MillerCuttlefish face
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Steven MillerHiding in red
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/100359.jpg)
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Steven MillerRed Sea Whip school
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Steven MillerGreat Guide and Model too- Marco sees his silhouette in the dome, and moves into the frame for you- a real treat.
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Steven MillerPatience
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Steven MillerRed is always a surprise to me.
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Steven MillerHatchling
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Steven MillerFramed turtle
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Steven MillerJellyfish- not very common in Wakatobi, about 3 inches long- shot right on the glass with a 10mm fisheye stopped down
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Steven MillerDegrees of separation, sometimes one strobe is OK.
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Steven MillerPretty in pink
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Steven MillerNight diving on the Full Moon
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Steven MillerField of grapes
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Steven MillerPygmy impression
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Steven MillerElectric soft coral
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/105453.jpg)
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Steven MillerCall me Sandy. Shooting in the surge
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Steven MillerSuch a bad reputation for these docile snakes
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/106892.jpg)
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Steven MillerB&W LR plug in applied to Hatchling
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Steven MillerColorful hatchling
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Steven MillerContemplating.. no photoshop, LR gradient filter
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Steven MillerSerious red- Pygmy Seahorse aren't often found on the red Sea Whips
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Steven MillerDouble Day Octopi. These two stayed put for well over an hour.. in broad daylight. Were still there when we ascended..
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Steven MillerLooks can be deceiving; this is a straight up camera angle, you can see the surface texture about 3 feet above
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Steven Miller2 spot Lionfish fin, boosted the colors, didn't change them though
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James DeverichWinged pipe fish
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James DeverichShrimp Fish
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Steven MillerPretty scene straight up angle
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Steven MillerFamily
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James DeverichSmall fry
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/108631.jpg)
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James DeverichTwo is better than one.
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Steven MillerRule of thirds, have something interesting in the top, bottom, and middle
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Steven MillerShallow reeftop snorkeling
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Steven MillerSunburst backlight
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James DeverichLate for the Halloween party / Caprella Skeleton Shrimp
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Steven MillerTiny shrimp on starfish. I though the shadow made him seem.. bigger?
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Steven MillerBlue shrimp for blue starfish, they jump like fleas
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Steven MillerThe Snell effect tells you that there isn't much crop here- this Jellyfish is just a couple inches long, but right on the glass he fills the frame. The Tokina lens at 10mm is pretty versatile if close enough
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James DeverichJust a simple portrait / The Hawk Fish
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James DeverichGoby again, different image maybe I like this one more. For the bouquet.
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Steven MillerSurveyor
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Steven MillerTurtle Grass study
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Steven MillerSchool of shrimp fish, they wave like turtle grass in the surge
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Steven MillerSpace Jelly
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James DeverichThe Flame / Gill's of Chromodoris Wilani. Shot with 105 & +10 diopter.
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James DeverichCrinoid shrimp on the Wakatobi House Reef.
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James DeverichCreepy Clown / Long shadows from one strobe gave an interesting mood to this shot.
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Steven Millerno bokeh blenny
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Steven MillerSnelling at slack tide
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Steven MillerDad is watching.. Cole's first snorkel adventure
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Steven MillerEvil eye
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Steven MillerF3.3 Bokeh
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Steven MillerPillow of polyps
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Steven MillerSpiral colors. I remember when I thought you had to go to the Red Sea to shoot these..
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James DeverichPteraeolidia ianthina
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Steven MillerSimple beauty.
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James Deverichchromodoris Willani
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Steven MillerStar of the shallows
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Steven MillerHold that pose!
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Steven Millerno PS, LR Gradient filter on the sun
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James DeverichSegmented eyes / Only able to shoot one angle as there was a piece of coral in front. 105mm with +10 Diopter.
Munida olivarae (Olivar's Squat Lobster)
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Steven MillerThe B&W challenge
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Steven MillerBattle ready
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Steven MillerCoral candy spider
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Steven MillerGhost polyp Nudi detail
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Steven MillerRiding the bus
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Steven MillerBetty Davis Eyes.
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James DeverichWhip it
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Steven MillerDon't shoot2 -better clouds
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James DeverichBlue bells on feathers / Trying something artistic :)
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James DeverichQuadricolour up close and personal
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James DeverichDust hunter / Filtering for plankton, segmented eyes on the sky.
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Steven MillerChasing Butterfiles
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James DeverichWar Paint
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Steven MillerPeeling grapes
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Steven MillerGrazing turtle.. they eat the weirdest things
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Steven MillerSaron shrimp detail, tangerine lace.
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Steven MillerStill life
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Steven MillerRoom for text
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Steven MillerThe colors in Crocodilefish' skin will light up to match what they are hiding on
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Steven MillerDifferent treatment. I have shot this animal in a bright scene before.
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Steven MillerSnelling Lionfish
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Jacob MortensenMy buddy suddenly came in front of my lens I struggled a little trying to get the sunburst in the background...
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Steven MillerHuge Wakatobi anemone. I spent some time trying to frame and light this animal alone, resident clownfish and shrimp get all the attention..
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Jacob MortensenIf you look closely you can see the eyes inside of the eggs inside of the bubble coral shrimp.
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Jacob MortensenBroadclub Cuttlefish - Wakatobi Resort
Nikon D90 in Aquatica Housing, two 161 ikelite strobes
ISO 200, f/13, 1/125 sec
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Jacob MortensenWakatobi Housereef
Nikon D90 Aquatica Housing, two 161 ikelite strobes, +10 magnifier
Iso 200, 60mm, f/29, 1/160 sec.
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Steven MillerTrying to learn layers and masks.. still have a long way to go.
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Steven MillerHard light
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Steven MillerContinuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.. At 82 my Mom can still recite the whole p...
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Steven MillerI wandered lonely as a cloud.. William Wordsworth My Mom recited the entire poem from memory for me today- pretty cool for 82 yrs. old
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Jacob MortensenI was on a hunt for a front shot of a Squarespot Anthias and this is one of the results, what do you think???
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Steven MillerSiphon
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Steven MillerHappy Halloween! -I am your Father Luke, or Space Boy rides the Siphon Express... An Octo eye and siphon, no photoshop- just LR brushes, saturation, and some gin.
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Steven MillerStare
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Steven MillerSea eye
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Steven MillerWakatobi split
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Steven MillerGreen eyes. I don't see these fish often, and had to observe him for awhile before he finally held still.
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Steven Millerno photoshop
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Steven Millerframe
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Steven Millerupwelling lifted the skirt on this coral, when I looked up from the viewer, it was hanging down
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Steven Miller8mm no crop. Flathead Crocodilefish color up when they lay on plants and corals, on sand and rock they go to white and black. Finding one perched up high was a lucky treat. 5D Mark2 in Ikelite housing
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Steven MillerCarousel of Clowns. Dragging the shutter at 1/15th second during a spin blurs the natural light. The flash freezes the action up close,. the middle ground ghosts with some motion blur.
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Steven MillerSparkle city. Giant Clam at Table Coral city in Wakatobi. It's rare for them to be so nicely positioned for shooting up from very close- very happy to find this one opened up like this
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/119479.jpg)
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Steven MillerStill Life
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Steven MillerUnnoticed
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Steven Millerdetails
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Steven MillerNever seen green before
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Steven MillerHer Majesty
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Steven MillerSuspended
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Steven MillerKaleidoscope.
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Steven MillerLeaning in the current
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Steven MillerFluoro flash + red, orange, yellow Luminance fill from Gamma lights.
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Steven MillerCourting Wakatobi Crocodilefish
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Steven MillerDead calm
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/120548.jpg)
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Steven MillerVery big Wakatobi Cuttlefish
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Steven MillerSquid Power
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Steven MillerFireworks
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Steven MillerIf you could coax a Cuttlefish up into the shallows of the reef top you could get this shot,. the setting are the same, lens. etc. This took two images and some layering though
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Steven MillerConfused by the panel
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Steven MillerCrocodile fish in colored up ambush mode
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Steven MillerLittle Jewels
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/123664.jpg)
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Steven MillerAmber waves of grain.. a Turtlegrass Prairie
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/124169.jpg)
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Steven MillerLow-light Luminance photography. We love our lumens even if we don't need them, this has app. 200 lumens in total
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/124177.jpg)
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Steven MillerWatcher
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Steven MillerWait for the big climb down. If you stare at Nudis they really move pretty fast and cover a lot of ground.
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/125328.jpg)
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Steven MillerLiving in Glass Houses.. l've seen these Salp often, but never noticed a fish living inside before.
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Steven MillerOrangutan crab.. always on Bubble coral.
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Steven MillerBad Hair day.. heavy current in the shallows
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Steven MillerDetails
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/125575.jpg)
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Steven MillerClam garden
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/137381.jpg)
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Steven MillerSchooling Barracuda in Wakatobi
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/138115.jpg)
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Steven MillerLooking for Iyad
![](http://www.underwaterphotography.com/upload/up/Competition/143747.jpg)
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Pauline Walsh JacobsonSpinecheek Anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus, Wakatobi Marine Preserve
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Pauline Walsh JacobsonSpinecheek Anemonefish, Premnas biaculeatus, Wakatobi Marine Preserve, Indonesia