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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)
(Stenopus hispidus) Boxer shrimp...taken at Bunaken, Manado, Indonesia...this shrimp was about to gather food into his mouth when captured...
Foto Macro de este maravilloso animal
Shrimp on an anemone. Lembeh strait's. D200, 60mm.
Yawning Hairy Frogfish @ TK III, Lembeh Straits. Taken using Oly E-510 with zuiko 50mm macro lens and twin Inon z-240 strobes.
Banded Coral Shrimp in a nice sponge setting.
Olympus C-8080
taken with Nikon D80 and a 60mm macro lens.
Sponge carrier taken on a night dive at Sharksbay with E300.
frog fish clown
Nudibranch Hypseldoris apolegma. Photographed in the tender moment of egg laying. Taken with a Nikon F90x, 105mm lens, f16, stobes set to manual.
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Pink is this month's color!
A Flamingo Tongue in hidding. My first image, so this is just a test (with minimum sharpening). I tried to get a nice dark background to contrast the Tongue. Taken with an Olympus C-8080, 1/125 @ 8.0.
White mantis shrimp. Lembeh strait's. 60mm.
SNOOPING/I have tons of this,the easiest subject for a relatively outdated compact camera using internal strobe only.Lovely Nontheless!
Happy Blenny
nembrotha portrait
Porcelain Crab
Sawblade Shrimp on whip coral, Lembeh Straits
Kune's Chromodoris, SonyT3,
just liked the mix of colours i guess.
This Christmas Tree Worm was my last photo before heading up for my safety stop whhile diving on Mikes Reef in Nassau, July 2006. Taken with my DC 500 and dual external flash units.
Little red friend
feather star on red gorgonia
nice octopus at old buoy dive site in parguera area!!!
Painted frogfish. Lembeh straits. D200, 60mm.
For this blenny, Home Sweet Home is a green bottle. Bunaken. Nikon D200.
Jawfish
The eyes: Nikon D200 , macro 60 , two strobo
Moal Boal 2008
Taken with stock Casio Exilim, no strobes. As simple as it gets.
well camouflaged scorpionfish on a sponge
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