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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - 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 in MID WATER not touching anything (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
Meet the Red Triplefin (Tripterygion delaisi) picture taken off the coast of North Ibiza.
Caribbean Squid
Bonfire dive Aguadilla Puerto Rico.
Sea Horse
Luther Goby
Moray ELL
The Mediterranean Cardinal fish carrying his eggs on his mounth.
Portrait turtle
NikonD850, Nikkor 60mm. Aquatica housing, Retrapro and LSD
Squid
Bonfire diving
Lionfish in the water column
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Caribbean Squid taking an interest in underwater photography
Seahorse
Banggai cardinalfish over a clownfish in the background
Schooling striped catfish
Biiiiiiiiiiig eye
look in the mirror
Found several Yellowhead Jawfish with a jaw full of eggs while on a shallow dive in Bonaire. Captured with a Nikon D850 and 2 INON strobes. Settings: 1/250, f16, ISO 80.
Caribbean Squid
Bonfire dive
Say Hi
makeup
Blue-ringed octopus
Mimic octopus
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Seahorse and xowfish
Blanket octopus
Blackwater dive
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Cute baby pufferfish
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f14, 1/100, Ikelite housing with two DS160 strobes.
Took this shot of a jellyfish while diving in Legazpi, Albay in the Philippines.
3 miles offshore with 6000 feet of ocean below at night in Hawaii, I was on a blackwater dive and came across this Amphipod Cystisoma. Shot with Canon 7D, mkII with a 60mm macro lens in an Ikelite housing with 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
Deadly Beauty
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