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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)
Happy Moray at Marsa Alam...
Juvenile conch on a beautiful white sand bottom, eyeballing a homo sapiens. Me. If it's lucky and a moratorium against overfishing remains in place, it can live to be 20-30 years old. Fuji E900 w/ built-in flash. Virgin Gorda.
Colony of blue sea squirts
Fireworm!! This guy was about 2.5 cm wide, scary. Imagine that guy wiggling in your wetsuit !!
Parrotfish Mouth, with shrimp perched on his nose--Little Cayman (Nikon F4, 60mm Macro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
This Scarlet-Striped Cleaning Shrimp was happy to give my wife a free manicure. And please, no cracks about the size of her engagement ring - she was happy with it 22 years ago, and she still is!
Sunflowers?
Nik 5 with 1.2 extension tube.
Remember them Benny.
This sea horse was trying to hide behind these feathery hydroids.
orange frogfish in lembeh strait
taken while diving on molasis reef in key largo
Red Snapping Shrimp (also called Pistol Shrimp). It takes a lot of patience to get this little guy to come out of his corkscrew anemone, but it's worth the wait. He'll even give you a free manicure if you're lucky!
Leaf Fish at Ngerchong Coral Garden. There were about 4 or 5 of these on one coral head.
Mr Crinkley... Another nudi in Taiwan... E900 and Macros
Monday morning! Canon 300D, 50mm copact macro. God I know how he feels!!
Two harlequins shrimp sharing there favorite food. Notice the difference in size.
three big fogfish (anglerfish)I was on macro, but when i saw the three sitting so nicely together, i just had to try to get a good shot...
A shrimp rest on a vivd red corallimorph.
Taken at Sipadan Island, East Malaysia
Harlequine Shrimp - Maui, Hawaii
Shot with D100 in L&M Titan housing using new Nikon Micro 105VR lens, autofocus.
Portrait of an undersea beast - Weedy Scorpionfish, Rhinopias frondosa, taken in Lembeh Straits.
current
Puff the magic Nudi. Sulawesi
Taken at The Canyon Dive Site, Dahab on a single reef outcrop of an Orange Mouth Moray about 6 inches long with a Fuji F11 Auto Macro Setting
How the site 'Sleeping Barracuda' got its name. There were about 100 or so, just napping on the sand. Raja Ampat.
Taken at Yolanda reef, Ras Mohamed Park with Olympus E300.
Taken at Bohayan Island, East Malaysia
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