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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)
Night diving, black sand ;o)
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Banded Blenny. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 20D & Canon 100 macro.
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Two in one.... Casio exilim
Frog fish
Yellow Froggi taken in Nuweiba with an Olympus 5060 WZ and two YS 60 strobes.
Goblin Fish
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Lion fish on KBR pier leg. Lembeh straits.D200, 60mm.
"dardanus pedunculatus"450d canon+60 macro.
This photo was taken a Yucab Reef, off Cozumel last month. Beautiful diving! Im still going thru the photos taken there on my last trip. These are White Featherduster Tubeworms.
Goby on red coral branch, taken off the South shore of Maui, using a 60mm lens.
One of many feather stars along a wall off Kizimkazi, Zanzibar
Octo trying to give me the look while he is hiding inside a sand covered slipper. Olympus sp350
Christmas Tree Worm seen in Grand Cayman August 2008. Photo taken with a Canon SD550.
Stynray's eye - Nikon D70S - 105 macro - DS160
Inside the crinoid,nikond2x 105mm macro
Night diving, black sand, Indonesia.
Fireworm taken at Korcula island at cca 25m. Resting on a gorgonian where it feeds. Olympus SP350 in macro mode, no strobe at all, manual setting ISO200, 1/50s, f/4.5

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I have no idea what this thing is, and getting a macro focus was not easy.... casio z1200
This Lionfish was tucked into a wreck in the Bahamas. Photo taken with Olympus Evolt E-300 with Inon strobe.
Bearded Fire Worm (hermodice carunculata)
"Three Bargibanties"; met in the Raja Ampat, West Papua
Speckled Sandperch. While diving from Pelagian off the coast of Wangi Wangi we encountered many of these little guys. Mostly found in rubble or on the sandy bottom they are very skiddish and thereby difficult to photograph this close.
Doctor fish on the Inside Reef at Lauderdale by the Sea
We saw the orange rhino when from out of the soft corals came hopping a white lacey rhino... Can it be 2 holy grails??!! It was one of my best dive feeling in years wink Canon G9
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ANENOME CRAB
taken with canon g9...
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