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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)
Peek-a-Boo: 1 cm Secretary Blenny popping up to say hello. Shot with Olympus C-8080, Ikelite Housing, DS-125 Strobe. Utila, Honduras.
Fire Corals , Watch out !!
Banded Shrimp Eye detail. Somewhere in the Bahamas.
D2x 2xTC.
Dardanus arrosor
Portofino reserve - Italy
Macro lens 60 mm
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.
Cannon Powershot S50 picture taken without flashlight only with torch light.
Nightdive at Jan Thiel beach.
The octopus was really scared of us....poor thing
black and white,indonesia
Trypterigion tripteronotus - Portofino Reserve - Gonzatti - Italy
Canon 20D Macro 60 mm lens
Lobster tail.
Porth Ysgaden, N. Wales.
F90X, 60mm.
A happy blenny on its coral house.

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A superb shot - but is it spoilt by the text?
Bubble coral shrimp shot near the jetty in Kapalai
Scorpion Leaffish.Taken from kapalai /sony P9
red eye / indonesia
Whitemouth Moray - notice the Wrasse sitting on top.

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An ordinary shot transformed by a diagonal
Bloody Henry & Dead Man's Fingers.
St. Abbs, Berwickshire, Scotland.
F90X,60mm.
Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii - Lighthouse dive - Portofino reserve - Italy
Canon 20D - 60 mm Macro lens
taken in utila with a sea & sea 5000.
leaf fish shot in kapalai,very common in this area
Varicose Phyllida - Shot off North Shore Oahu, Hawaii @ ~30'depth.
Flabellina Affinis - Lighthouse dive - Portofino reserve - Italy
Canon 20D Macro 60 mm lens
Green Lionfish shot @ ~35' depth, west shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Saturation enhanced.
Pymy Seahorse taken at Lembeh Straits nite dive. Minolta 7xi, ikelite housing
Pygmy seahorse. Kapalai,sabah,borneo.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2005

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another pygmy - but rather a nice one
Curly Xeno - Lembeh, Canon D10. First time I've seen one of these critters not hugging the whip coral
Together again. Imperial Shrimp.Shot at Mantanani Island,SABAH,BORNEO
Flabilina Verrucosa-Taken on a night dive in Barkley Sound B.C.
D70

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nice use of negative space
sea cucumber climber,indonesia
Royal Hypselodoris. Taken with D70,105mm. Kapalai,SABAH,BORNEO
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