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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)
Balssia gasti. This is a small shrimp living on gorgonia. Either it lives on a red or a yellow seafan, it gets the color of its "home". Its size is about 10 mm, less than a 1/2 inch.
Shaggy Mouse Nudibranch. Night Dive at Redonde Beach Washington
Pink lovers. Nikon F90x, 105 macro,Two strobo ttl, velvia 50 asa ,Lembhe
BAsket Star, night dive, D70s
This lobster was hiding in a crevice of the coast of Tofo beach. The colours were magnificent.
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This is a multi colored lobster Dray
A racing slug! Nudibranch from Manado. With an Olympus 5060 and Epoque strobe
Fanworm feeding on Popeye's barge off Malta, not much of a wreck but a good selection of life. Taken with a Canon S70
Close up of a Crocodilefish's eye.
Frogfish taken in the Bahamas...It's almost like he's posing
Octopus, waiting for "fast food" (but not too fast food) at the entrance of it's "home"
Nice fanworm on a wreck, Gozo, Malta
Pygmy Seahorse and a Goby.
D70,105mm.
KAKABAN Island
A lionfish in ambush, perhaps mimicing nearby crinoids on red sea fan who are starting to feed.
S2Pro, DS-125
fire in deep. nikon D70s-105mm macro- flashs ds50 ikelite.
Chromodoris willani off of the coast of Borneo (Kapalai Island)
In a crowd.
Anenome Crab off the island of Mabul.
A very, hairy crab! Shot with the 105mm and 2xtc racked out to the max. Full frame, no cropping. Nikon D2x.
"Sawtooth" clam. Super macro. World War II Iro Maru shipwreck in Palau. I'm fascinated by the unidentified turquoise matter that seems to overlay the pink veins. Canon A-95. Built-in strobe.
Dragon moray picture taken off the south shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
This is a closeup of a nurse shark's eye. I loved the tiling of it's skin. I was about 6 inches and a prayer away when I shot this =)
Black and white. Philippine sea.Nikon d100, 105 macro,two strobo sea and sea 120YS
Bristle Worm, off of the West end of Cayman Brac.
I know this fish as a Philippine Tang.
Hermit Crab off of Cayman Brac. This little guy was at the edge of a rock, allowing me to get a good "eye to eye" view of him.
Sea slug eggs. Little Barrier Island, NZ
Brittle star reaching out from under his soft coral hideout.
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