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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)
1/250 @ f14
Tough to get a shot of these guys feeding but when they do I think it looks spectacular. Like little fishermen casting their nets. Shot with two strobes, next time I'm going to try side lighting to give some more depth.
fish / Canon G9, inon strobe d2000 / f8, 1/200s
Sabella pavonina. Last summer most of them are eaten by a new predator for the Netherlands, the Tubulanus superbus.
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Signs Of Life
Cockatoo waspfish portrait - Ablabys taenionotus. looking more like a floating leaf than anything else. D300, 60mm Macro
Scorpaena Scrofa
breakfast upside down
Little Bryaninops amplus lookking at it's breakfast.
The look of the Spotted Hawkfish resting on it's coral... :O) ...
Climbing creature...
Fishs - Hippocampus guttulatus
Benny
Tube anemone.Nikon F100,60mm,f27.1/125,YS-120,RVP100.
Maybe a Warty Frogfish (Clown frogfish)
Corals
This Skeleton Shrimp (Caprella sp., size about 8mm) was very cooperating. It seems to say hello. :-)
Taken in Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola, FL.
Arrow crab and small buddy.
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus Bargabanti),
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
Solitary Gorgonian Hydroid (Ralpharia gorgoniae) on Little Cayman. This is a fairly rare creature in the Caymans, and I was very fortunate for the divemaster to spot this specimen.
The Eye of a Tench... :O) ...
Leaf Scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) - Crystal Bay, Bali (Canon G9, Inon D2000)
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"Dancing" worm
Stargazer.
D300, 60mm AF-S
Corals
Hermit Crab hiding in pink fairy floss
An hawkfish hiding
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