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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)
Mottlet turbot
Night before Coral Spawning
Holding your breath until you turn blue? eh?? Well, it seems that a normal Seaweed Blenny will turn a brilliant shade of blue after tackling a fireworm. Hmm, guess some like it hot & spicy! Mmmm, yum! Chaaaa.
ELEGANT
I took this shot during my photo 101 class with a new Olympus PEN EPL-1.
Rhynchocinetes durbanensis on its way
(when I've decided to take the picture, there was no fish behind the shrimp ... bad luck)
Canon 50D
?????
Tube worm type thing off the rocks in about 6 metres of water
What can I say, I love seahorses.
Tessellated Blenny on the Sherman Tug, Mexico Beach, FL
Ewa Fang Blenny. This little guy likes to hang out inside this railing, only coming out to mimick the dance of a cleaner wrasse and then takes a bite out of unsuspecting fish.
flowler-fins--sealife DC1000...
Hermit crab outside Jungle Beach at Thailand
Lionfish.
nikon d2x 60mm macro
Allied Cowrie (Crenavolva striatula)
Something ethereal about the back lighting of this Hairy Blenny caught by surprise in a cross fire of lights which dubiously occured as a result of several photographers trying to photograph a seahorse on the other side of my subject.
Small gobbie on a sponge (pleurosicya elongata?)
Red scorpion fish
Xeno crab in Amed, Bali. Olympus E330, 50mm macro, nexus wetlens, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
Chromodoris Magnifica if I got it right! So many species. Taken at Puerto Gallera, Philippines.
I love Seahorses. So delicate. The intricasies within their design reveal only more design.
blue eyes
nikon d2x 60mm macro
Scorpionfish flashing its body.
Blenny. f11, 1/90, ISO 200
Basket star
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