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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)
Seahorse and xowfish
Blanket octopus
Blackwater dive
shortlistedShortlisted!
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
Portrait Red lips blenny
Olympus
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Home Sweet Home
Taken during a blackwater dive.
Larval Wonderpus Octopus.
Picture taken during a black water dive. Very small creatures swimm around you and this 'jellyfish' was one of them. Very hard to focus with the camera.
Cuttlefish
Longarm Octopus
Bonfire dive
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
"The Nose Knows"
Sharpnose Puffer on the Spiegel Grove wreck in Key Largo, FL
2 seahorses
Zeus faber
Arrow squid
Bonfire diving
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
Portrait Mantis shrimp larval stage
Bonfire diving
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
2nd place Monthly HotShots
Scale worm larva stage
Bonfire diving
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
Octopus attack
Filefishes
Olympus
Fish n’ Jelly
Longarm Octopus
Bonfire dive Puerto Rico
Sea elephant, Atlantidae - Atlanta sp. - a Heteropod
Bonfire dive
Aguadilla Puerto Rico
Seahorse and fishes
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