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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)
Spiral Tube Worm swaying in the current. Calvi Corsica.
Taken on a night dive. He had so much confidence in his disguise that he didn't move at all, even when we nudged him a bit.
Well camouflaged. Taken in Safaga, Egypt. Sony DSC W90.
taken by Canon G7 with Inon D-2000 strobe
Scorpionfish taken at Sharksbay with E300 and 105mm lens.
A pair of Flamingo Tongues Mating
Anemone Crab
Stoned Fish...
Stonefish on the seabed. Moments later he took a fish and I didn´t get it on my camera.
Nudibranch Chromodoris Annae off Pemuteran North West Bali.
Yellow Rhinopia on the black sand of lembeh Strait.
Moray Portrait - Taken in Puerto Rico with a Nikonos RS, 50mm lens and SB103 strobe.
Red Scorpionfish (Scorpaena) Calvi Corsica.
A beautiful Nudibranch hunts for food on a sponge during a night dive
Pygmy seahorses - 2 of them on a Gorgonian
Octopus watching the camera from his "hidding" place.
Mystic flow-- anemone stomach opening.
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This looks like a moonscape, not a gastric moment!
Scorpion fish. Tobia Arba, Red Sea,Egypt. Sony W90.
Some more jewels from the Scillies
by Sipadan...2007/09/05~09.
Night dive just off the shore in Sogod Bay, Leyte. Looks like someone had dropped a can of beef loaf in the water, with some still left inside, and our friend here helped himself to a spicy dinner.
White striped cleaner shrimp, Lysmata grabhami.
Tiny red hermit crab struggling to free itself from a Sea Cucumber that has trapped it's home.
The isopod Cassidinopsis emarginata very common at the subantarctic kelp beds at the Strait of Magellan, Chile. Nikon Coolpix 995 and Subtronic strobres.
Imperator:Lembeh street 2007: Nikon D200 , two strobo, 60 macro nikon
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Top shrimp
Giant Frogfish.
Balancing Act - Image of shrimp taken in Bonaire with a Nikon D100 in a Aquatica housing with 105mm lens and ikelite strobes.
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