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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)
with the bad visibility and the sun behind, I never thought i'd have a good shot.
Parablennius. Scilla, Italy. Nikon D60, 18-55.
Lizard Fish sitting pretty at Junkyard on the Sunabe Sea Wall.
Coleman Shrimp in Anilao. Tools: Canon S1 IS, Inon D2000
Short fin scorpionfish, devil fish...FISH ID ???? Lembeh D70, 60mm, twin D125 strobes
Worms - Bispira volutacornis
pygmy seahorse in lembeh strait. taken with canon 30D, ikelite housing and 2x inon strobes.
ringed snail crawling over a bunch of little cup corals right next to the Breakwater at Monterey
A Frog Fish, a rare treat off the coast of West Palm Beach, FL
Good lunch. Lembeh strait 2008
Nikom D200, 60 micro, twin strobo
Catshark Egg Nikon D80, 60mm
Blue ring octopus. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
A Giant Tun the size of a football
flat worm in chimenea dive site at parguera area PUERTO RICO
Invading someone's home. Casio exilim
Yellow Moray Eel angry with my lens, Anilao, Philipines
sea whip goby.Nikon F100,60mm,f19,1/90,YS-120*2,RVP50
night dive manado -- canon 400 d +ys 110 + nikonos sb 105
Mantis shrimp doing its spring cleaning (carrying out and throwing away dirt form its burrow)
shortlistedShortlisted!
Snake Eel on a night Dive !!! Tools: Canon S1 IS, Inon D2000
xenocarcinus tuberculatus--lembeh strait, canon 30D in ikelite housing, 2x inon strobes
gramps or gremlin
Texture of a sea urchin skeleton.

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Editor's Comment
nice abstract Helena
Resting in a coral
Got this close up of a Giant Tun about the size of a football while snorkeling on a boat trip. I had to hold on to a rock so I did not float back to the surface. Captured using my Finepix F31d and underwater housing
We have ovulids in the Mediterranean as well!
This nice family of Neosimnia spelta on a Leptogorgia, found on a sandy bottom in front of Capo Noli (SV).
nice feather duster at v.j.levels dive site in parguera PUERTO RICO
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