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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)
Argh! Tubularia indivisa is dramatically brought down by the mighty Flabellina pedata - think of it as a very tiny zebra and lion in slow motion...
Mine, all mine! Tiny spider crab standing guard over his collection of lightbulb tunicates on the Rosalie, Norfolk.
Venomous beauty...Hydrozoan!
This little guy just get a new house and was trying to take it back to his original position when I got it frozen in my CMOS sensor!! Full frame, no crop, Macro 100mm + TC 2x
It was taken with 60mm macro objective.
Cleaning time
This photo was taken at fantasy reef off the south side of Oahu, Hawaii. It was my 3rd picture with my sealife 5 megapixel camera with strobe. I was about 12 inches away.
Harlequin shrimps @ Bali, Seraya
new life,
Pygmy Portrait. D2x, 105mm, 2xteleconverter and lots of cussing.
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Absolutely the last Pygmy Seahorse to win our monthly comp! It's good to go out on a high note. No more please, even the Doc won't top this one...
Forest under the waves in the puget sound
Harlequin shrimps at the last moment. A great ending of a dive near Tofo-beach.
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)
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