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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)
Clearfin lionfish portrait taken on a night dive at Ras Umm Sid.
ghost pipe fish (paradoxus)
Shot on my Olympus 5060, off the beach at Salang, Tioman Island
discs - is that soft coral? (more at cf29.com)
My little friend under Seaventures in Mabul!
The Green, La Parguera
One of three sharptail eels cautiously returning from a jaunt in the grass. Taken off my dad's back porch on Roatan with my D200 and 105mm macro.
Whip Coral Shrimp taken at Bangka Islands with Olympus E-510, Zuiko 50mm macro lens and twin Inon Z-240 strobes.
Pink Anemone Fish; taken with Canon G7 and built-in flash,
Porcelain crab. Lembeh strait's. D200, 60mm.
Goby on coral
Small fish in Ilha Rasa, coast of Rio de Janeiro
"Hinge-beak Prawns" Very hard to get a shot as they were hiding in the rocks and would move away from my light as I tried to frame them. Photo taken 2 Feb 2008 during a dive in Suruga Bay off Ita Beach on the Izu Pennisula. Canon A630 set on Macro.
Clark's Anemonefish eggs - fully developed. They hatched later the same day. Maldives - January 2008.
Pipefish at Aer Perang, Lembeh Straits. Shot with Olympus E-510 and zuiko 50mm marco lens and twin Inon Z-240 strobes.
Frogfish face. Bonaire. Canon 400D 100mm.
When the moon fills your Eye, like a big Pizza Pie (Thats a Moray). Taken at Sodwana 7 Mile Reef with Fuji F30
Rhinopias, Lembeh Strait
Believe it or not, this puffer actually got away!
Taken in the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi with my Olympus C-8080.

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Editor's Comment
So it's a happy meal to take away Bruce!
Coral at it best
Orange World
Nikon D80 60mm Macro Lens
EVERPRESENT/You will see this creatures yearound, no wonder divers always had that holiday spirit of fun,love,respect and humility.Well christmas spirit is suppose to be everpresent, isn't it?
lembeh strait,nikon d2x 60mm macro
Sergeant Majors on the inside reef at Lauderdale by the Sea.
Grouper face taken at Marsa Bareika, Ras Mohamed Park with E300 and 105mm lens.
Saw a sea cucumber opening and closing its anus, and look what I found in there! Timing was crucial.. open, snap!
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