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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)
very close up look to a fire coral at two for you dive site in parguera area!!
Another Polycera... this one was sitting on a dark kelp frond. Photographed with little light it seems to be floating in thin air... eh, water.
Nikon D200 in Nexus housing, Inon Z-240 strobes. Nikkor 105 mm, manual, ISO 100, f/16, 1/60.
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Even in cold water nudis provide colorful subjects
Elegant Flatworm in the bay of Alona Beach
Long lure frog fishes
Polyps under a ledge. This was shot by my wife Maya in Grace Bay on Provodenciales on April 13. Natural light and shallow (less than 50')
Christmas Tree Worm taken with a Sea and Sea DX-1G Camera
Hello, welcome to my home, Bonaire.
acropora cervicornis in break down reef at parguera area!!!
Seahorse. Police peir. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
Dendrophyllia ramea
Whip coral close up taken at Ras Umm Sid.
Long bec à carreaux
Turtle skeleton.
Not an particulary good pic, but I wanted to share it with you anyway.
Swimming anemone, Malabar
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Did you think eggs when you first saw this?
Snake eel. Picture taken on the housereef of the Exotic dive resort in Malapascua.
Long Lure Frog Fish
close look of a christmas tree at v.j.levels dive site in parguera area!
A cute looking Blue-Eyed Triplefin (Notoclinops segmentatus) <> <> <> Canon G9, Inon UCL-165, Poor Knights
Portrait of desperation...
Canon 400D + 60mm Macro lens
Freckled Sand Eel, taken @ "Electric Beach" on Oahu's west side w/60MM macro.
Potted Cleaner Shrimp, Bonaire
Christmastree worm
Peek-A-Boo! He was inside this shell when I saw him. Thanks for him being Curious... He posed for me and gave me the OK sign wink
Xiao Liu Qiu.8mm F/5.6 1/60sec.. 2007/12/30
Octopus Vulgaris
St. Vincent shrimp peppermint caribbean indigo dive
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