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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)
"Portrait Of A Marbled Shrimp"
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Sea Star Shrimp ( Periclimenes soror ) - Padang Bai
Canon G9 + Nikonos SB 105 + Inon UCL 165 lens + DIY adapter
Portrait of a Longnose Hawkfish (Oxycrrhitus typus)
taken with macro 100 mm
imperator commensa shrimps onsea cucumber
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A goby found a new temporary home on a Phylidia picta nudibranch. Never seen them do that before.
Stegopontonia commensalis
White Anemone - Tulamben
Canon G9 + Nikonos SB 105 + Inon UCL 165 lens + DIY adapter
Simple yet beautifull, a Cowrie.
Reminds me of a Pearl in a carpet of Diamonds.
Olympus E330, 35mm Macro, 2 Ikelite DS125 Strobes.
Skeleton Shrimp. Very rare, and hard to see as they are so tiny. One of the more unusual critters that we see in St. Vincent.
G10 and Inon strobe
Ring-eye Hawkfish.
Bunaken, Dec 2007.
D200 60mm.
Tear Drop Crab, Sea and Sea DX1G, stacking diopters, YS110a strobe.
yellow shell nikon d2x 60mm micro
Different angle....
Leaf Scorpionfish
A jawfish with eggs in Tulamben, Bali.
porcelain crab
Clown frogfish seen in Dauin Bangka Wreck. The froggy was about 5 cm long.
WHAT 'THIS?
Portrait of a white Leaf Scorpionfish Taenotus triacanthus
Seahorse shot with a Nikonos RS and 50 mm macro and on Ikelite SS 200 on Kodachrome 25. As usual, no cropping and this is a low resolution scan.
Black Coral Shrimp, pair. Super tricky to photograph, these shrimp are approx 2mm in size, very rare, and usually 'ping' around the black coral fronds just as the shutter is about to capture them! Sea and sea DX1G compact camera, stacking diopters.
The cutest wartty frogfish so far, picture taken in Koh Lipe, Thailand with Fuji S5 pro/105VR
Picture taken in Dauin. The 2 couples of harlequin shrimps live on a manmade reef and seem to be happy there ... just perfect
Peppermint Shrimp.
Sea and Sea DX1G with stacking diopters, YS110a strobe.
Soft coral abstract.
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