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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)
Ocellated wrasse - symphodus ocellatus. This guy was quite occupied in builing his nest when i came accross his way. He didn't like it to much, and kept on chasing me away !
Flamingo Tongue - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm; single DS-125 strobe
Feather Dusters on the Prince Albert which is sunk just between Fantasy Island and CoCo View in Roatan. This photo is from 2007.
Anemone shrimp (Periclimenes tosaensis). Nikon D300, 105mm, Ikelite, 2xDS125
I always find it fascinating how these shrimps match they're colouring to the feather stars! Is it chicken or egg i.e. does the shrimp look at itself and say - "I need to find a balck and white feather star" LOL
Secretary blenny - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm
soft coral crab hiding amongst the polyps
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Arrow crab with anemone and sea rods
A glance.... priceless!
Hippocampus Bargabanti,
D300, 60mm AF-S
Sharknose goby - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm
Worms - Sabella penicillus
Hippocampus denise in orange variation
pigmy seahorse, canon 20D, EF100mm macro lens duel ikelite strobes
Pederson's cleaner shrimp - with clutch of eggs which appear to be at two different stages of development - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D - EF-S 60mm
Lettuce Slug Love, D300, 105VR, Bonaire
Marbeled shrimp on a night dive in Pulisan
Basket Star on noble coraltaken at Crossroads in Port Elizabeth with a Sony W300
Feather star taken on a night dive with Canon G9
Corals - Parazoanthus axinellae
Superb dragonet. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
Hermit crab - Bonaire - Canon EOS350D; EF-S 60mm
abstract shot of coral and polips...
Lizardfish eating a pufferfish. I waited for fifteen minutes on my safetystop to see who was winning but at last my air forced me up without finding out the end of the battle.
Lembeh jan 2008
Canon 400 with 100mm macro
shrimp on a whip corel, canon 20D EF 100mm macro duel ikelite strobes
The Zombie...
Xeno crab. One of the first comments I received for this photo was that this crab looks like a "dead monitor lizard's zombie". Go figure...
Banded Coral Shrimps hanging together
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