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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)
Painted goby. D200, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Painted goby. D200, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Ireland
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arlequin shrimp in Richelieu Rock by Adriano Trapani
arlequin shrimp in Richelieu Rock
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 11, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Hanging upside down without disturbing the sponge and sca... by William Goodwin
Hanging upside down without disturbing the sponge and scaring the bejesus outta the peppermint shrimp inside, aiming the Light Cannon to light up the inside through the translucent wall of the sponge ... ahh, the travails of the u/w photographer.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Fish Tug O' War?..."You wanna piece of me?" ..¸><((((º><º... by Brian Mayes
Fish Tug O' War?..."You wanna piece of me?" ..¸> <((((º> <º)))> <....Red-Spotted Sandperch (Parapercis schauinslandi), Canon G9 plus Inon UCL-165 close-up lens and cropped.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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"Best Buddies" What a find... first a yellow thorny seaho... by Debi Henshaw
"Best Buddies" What a find... first a yellow thorny seahorse who is joined unprompted by a pygmy pipehorse who wraps his tail around the torso of the seahorse! What a wonderful encounter. 60mm +4 diopter. Uncropped :o)
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date posted posted: Friday, April 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Flamboyant Cuttlefish Strike. This cuttlefish was huntin... by Richard Witmer
Flamboyant Cuttlefish Strike. This cuttlefish was hunting under the ledge. Right before he would strike, his colors would get really bright and then he would attack. G9/Ikelite DS160.
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Sharknose goby by Alan Lyall
Sharknose goby
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 10, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Orangutang Crab? by Dorian Borcherds
Orangutang Crab?
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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Sea Horse - Nikon D70 60mm Macro by John Snyder
Sea Horse - Nikon D70 60mm Macro
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Little red coral (Corallium rubrum) into the epibenthic a... by Marco Faimali
Little red coral (Corallium rubrum) into the epibenthic assemblages of a Mediterranean coralligenous reef in Portofino, Liguria, Italy.
45 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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A common crayfish taken at Three Sisters in Port Elizabet... by Anthony Wooldridge
A common crayfish taken at Three Sisters in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Sony W300 and a Fantasea Nano strobe
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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I am a sucker for green eyes. Canon G10 internal strobe o... by Andrew Macleod
I am a sucker for green eyes. Canon G10 internal strobe only. 2.2 digital teleconverter function used
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti). G9/Ikelite DS16... by Richard Witmer
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti). G9/Ikelite DS160/UCL165.
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 9, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Beautiful Seastar, taken at Wakatobi with my Canon S70 an... by Beate Krebs
Beautiful Seastar, taken at Wakatobi with my Canon S70 and CloseUp Lens
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Just the two of them.. actually there was a third. Taken ... by Andrew Macleod
Just the two of them.. actually there was a third. Taken on my first dive with the new G10, still figuring it out though.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Spidercrab. by Dray Van Beeck
Spidercrab.
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Remora. by Miguel Cortes
Remora.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Painted frogfish. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm. by Derek Haslam
Painted frogfish. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Babusanta, Talikud Island, Davao City by Bernard Maglana
Babusanta, Talikud Island, Davao City
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mindanao Sea Philippines
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Triplefin, Bare Island by Doug Anderson
Triplefin, Bare Island
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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I am not sure what this is, so i may have mis-catagorised... by Andrew Macleod
I am not sure what this is, so i may have mis-catagorised it... still testing the G10
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Coral on the reef in front of the Pelican Grand in Fort L... by Michael Kovach
Coral on the reef in front of the Pelican Grand in Fort Lauderdale
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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looking from the tail towards the eyes of a scorpion fish... by Andrew Macleod
looking from the tail towards the eyes of a scorpion fish - unusual angle... NO CROPPING Canon G-10
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Pteroides by Vittorio Durante
Pteroides
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 6, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Anomone Crab on the underside of a closed Anomone. The u... by Marylin Batt
Anomone Crab on the underside of a closed Anomone. The underside of the Anomone is very pretty. Nikonos V 1:2 extension tube.
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Sea Rod on the reef off the Pelican Grand Beach Resort in... by Michael Kovach
Sea Rod on the reef off the Pelican Grand Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Whip Coral Shrimps (Dasycaris zanzibarica)......¸><((((º>... by Brian Mayes
Whip Coral Shrimps (Dasycaris zanzibarica)......¸> <((((º> ......Canon G9 & 2 x Inon UCL-165 close-up lenses
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 5, 2009
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Indonesia
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