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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)
Jellyfish with eggs
Brittle Star, D300, 105VR
Just for the colors and texture D200/60mm
No, I don't want to come home for Dinner! Lizardfish attempting to eat a small Pufferfish. Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. Canon 20D & Canon 100 macro
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you can have a puffed up puffer not disqualified in the contest! But only if you prove it's natural. See the forum thread to find out if it got away...
Tube Worms Hvar Island.
Echinoderms - Holothuria tubulosa (reproduction)
Octopus
tiny mini crawling fishy, laid still for 5 minutes b4 getting this shot. Canon G9, twin Inon Macro, Z240
Back to Tioman Island again, cute little fella on soft coral. Capture by Canon G9 with INON single strobe and macro len.
Portrait of Mantis
Hey.... What's up ? :O) ....
Scorpian fish sat in tube coral, Macro, Sea & sea DX300, YS25 Auto Strobe. F2.9, Iso 125
Fat Lips - Taken at Kaputian divesite Samal Island, Davao City. Camera used: Canon A650IS, no strobe. - 091108
nikon D80, 60mm
Snake Eel hunting breakfast, D300, 105VR
colorful mantis, no strobe
Coral close-up, (Galaxea fascicularis). Canon G9 with Inon D-2000 strobe.
Close up of soft coral
Oohhh again
Crustaceans - Dardanus arrosor
deadly and tricky as usual - hard to see and even harder to "feel" (better not!)
I see you
california kelp frond
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Red sea horse on red spounge
leaf fish
A clownfish resting in his soft bed...
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This tiny hairy crab that measures only a few millimeters in size was perched for just a moment on top of a piece of coral on a reef off Anilou, Philippines.
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