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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)
Just hanging out!
Shy guy laying on the bottom, Sistiana, Trieste bay. Olympus SP-350, ambient light only, macro mode, ISO 100, 1/200s, f/2.8
Creature of the night
Worms - Spirobranchus giganteus
The Little Jelly
Red Sea, Ras Zathar, Sharm el Sheik, Ras Mohammed
Canon Digital Ixus 700 and his case Canon WP-DC70
Anemone Shrimp, hard to photograph because the sea was choppy and he was quite shy.
Sony DSC W90 in a WB housing.
The"king" of the shrimp  by Paul Ng
by: Paul Ng
The"king" of the shrimp
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This is a orange camera shy sea horse. This photo was taken in Bonaire but it was not listed
Sailfin Blenny, Culebra, P.R.
Porcupinefish, Lembeh
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These pink clown fish are very shy around Tioman Island, so I was well happy to find this one out and about. One of the few shots in my portfolio shot downwards that still works. Olympus 5060.
A friendship
If you can catch one standing/sitting still, they are fun to watch - from Cozumel, during a trip which my buddy and I were diving alone so we could spend as much time as we wanted hunting for neat critters to photograph.
Samal Island, Davao City
scorpion fish
clown fish spleping
Clouded Moray Eel, Sabah Borneo, Nikon F90x, F16, Velvia slide film, manual exposure.
Spectacular Lionfish
Red Sea, Ras Zathar, Sharm el Sheik, Ras Mohammed
Canon Digital Ixus 700 and his case Canon WP-DC70
Octopus taken at Gasmic Reef, in Port Elizabeth. ISO100 F3.5 1/60
Close up of Scalloped Fireworm (Chloeia sp.). <> <> <> <> Canon G7, Inon UCL-165, St Vincent
One Hermit crab that didn´t retreat as soon as I got there.
2008/04/05 TAIWAN.
Frog Fish with his mouth open
Builder's of reefs
a pair of reef octopus (octopus cyaneus) being very friendly to eachother. Taken with 100mm.
Two hairy pygmy pipehorse taken at Ras Mohamed with Olympus E300 and 50mm lens.
Hiding in the Muck. Found this Stargazer looking at us at a night dive in Lembeh Strait. Taken with a Canon EOS 20 D and a 60 mm lens
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