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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)
Eye to eye
Leaf Scorpion fish.Nikon F100,60mm,f27,1/125,RVP 100.
Taken at Police Pier in Lembeh Strait. The Guides were telling us how some other guides will move these shrimp when they find them to keep them hidden from the other dive companies so their divers/photographers have them to themselves. Not good!
Sabella spallanzanii. Most pictures are taken from the front, I thought these image from the side has a weird and colourfull effect.
Bluebelly Blenny
Small window in the blue.
Fancy Eyebrow smile Large moray being attended by a cleaner. G9/DS160s.
Tiny Painted Frogfish (Antennarius pictus) about the size of a fingernail...¸> <((((º> ....Canon G9 & stacked Inon UCL-165 close up lenses
Well hidden pigmy
shrimp on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
Nikon D80, Gangaro-Biograd-Croatia
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a traditional shot, very clean
swan river prawn(shrimp)
Mimic octopus taken in Nuweiba.
FLAMINGO TONGUE ,introspecting
banded cleaner shrimp just hanging out
Flamingo Tongue taken in La Ramona area of Dominican Republic
This one is very slippery...
taken in Anilao with Canon 400D/Hugyfot housing
Hairy squat lobster (Lauriea siagiani) - Tulamben, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000w, 2xUCL165)
"One Armed Bandit" Harlequin Shrimp Full Frame. Nikon D200 60mm + 2 diopter. ISO 100 f/18 1/125
peak a boo
An abandoned fishing cage (surface line most probably cut by divers) becomes a home for fish. The pipe visible is one of the bottom supports of the cage. One of the few examples where humans contributed to the habitat. Oly 5060 + inon closeup lens
HERMIT CRAB. 1 " long
Ghost Gobi Taken on trip between Bali and Komodo
Babusanta, Talikud Island, Davao
Two tiger shrimps.... Anilao. Canon G10 Inon S200 strobe. twin macro
My what a big mouth you have.
Taken off St Abbs Head Scotland with Canon A570is and Epoque es-150 ds strobe.
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