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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - 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 in MID WATER not touching anything (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
fresh water base.
Anemona Fish.
The leopard:NikonD100, !05 macro, Two strobo. Lankayan 2005
Hinge beak shrimp, take at a cleaning station
This little Diamond Blenny is one of the most colorful fish on the reef, usually found in anemones.
Nikon D200 with 60mm lens.
Just arrived back from a great week on Hurrican in the Red Sea - Here is yet another picture of a clown fish...hope you like it...
Taken at Mabul Island, East Malaysia
This little Yellowface Pikeblenny wasn't too shy about posing. Little Cayman, BWI. Nikon D70.
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2006

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a well worked critter shot James
Juvenile Pufferfish
Housed Nikon 8008 with Nikkor 105mm Macro 2 Ikelite 200 strobes. Kodak EVP film
Mandarin fish, a male waiting for his female
Lionfish from Hurghada
Hey Dude...have you seen my cousin Crush?
Leach's spider crab. Menai strait.
North Wales. 60mm.
Ok, so the eye didn't go down so well with the voters... lets try the whole thing .... Octopus Taiwan E900
The double spot. NikonD100, !05 macro, Two manual strobo, Lankayan 2005
"Peas in a Pod" When I swam over the top of a hole one head popped up then a second. All lit up and the mesmerising sway, I thought they were going to get tangled at one stage. Olympus C5050, Inon D-180 Strobe.
3-D Blennie.
D2x 105mm, 2xTC
Spent 30 mins with this cute octopus watching him. He got very friendly and let me get in close to get this eye shot. Zoom in and see the detail...fascinating. Taiwan with E900 and 2x INON macros
A Siphonophore, relative of a jellyfish, and one of the stranger creatures of the sea.
glass fish in the blue
Leatherjacket against a pilon under the Pertamina Pier. Olympus C8080
The goby. Nikon D100, 105 macro, two S&S strbo. Lankayan 2005
Masked puffer fish. 60mm.
Octupus climbing through hole in rocks, Carr rocks off Burnmouth, Scotland. 21 June 2006.
Salp Colony--shot upwards with the sun as backlight; Anacapa Island, California (Nikon F4, 105mm Macro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
This shrimp wanted to clean my camera and just kept coming too close to be able to focus. Usually I have the opposite problem smile
Found this little fish with his head out of the bottle, when I approached he hid inside. Managed to get the strobe to shine through the glass. Lembeh
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