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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)
A very delicate hermit crab. D200,60mm. by Derek Haslam
A very delicate hermit crab.
D200,60mm.
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: United Kingdom
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Cube Trunkfish - Red sea, D70s, 60mm by Paul Maddock
Cube Trunkfish - Red sea, D70s, 60mm
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Squid watching you by Theresa Akerman-Ihle
Squid watching you
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Clarkes Anemonefish, taken at Mana Island Fiji by Peter Simpson
Clarkes Anemonefish, taken at Mana Island Fiji
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Australia
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This batfish was curiously swimming around me during safe... by Mohan Thanabalan
This batfish was curiously swimming around me during safety stop. Taken at Fish Haven @ Perhentian Island, Malaysia
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Making eye contact with your subject is essential. Green... by Michael Canzoniero
Making eye contact with your subject is essential.
Green turtle, Olympus 3040, SB 105 strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Have you ever seen a Trumpet Fish so close up? It was a l... by Alice Lee
Have you ever seen a Trumpet Fish so close up? It was a lucky and speedy shot. Taken by Nikonos V with 1-2 extention tube and framer.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Singapore
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'Gun Barrel' Urchin in Tube sponge. Cozumel, Mexico. Hous... by Rick Tegeler
'Gun Barrel' Urchin in Tube sponge. Cozumel, Mexico. Housed Nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor. Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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A tiny (1 cm) juvenile Highhat. This is one of the toughe... by Jim Chambers
A tiny (1 cm) juvenile Highhat. This is one of the toughest photos I've ever taken. I wasn't sure if it was a Highhat or a Spotted Drum, but Paul Humann ID'ed it for me. Nikon D200 with 60mm lens.

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Great natural history shot Jim. One for the photo library!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Western Blue Devil, taken at African Reef, Geraldton. The... by Natasha Tate
Western Blue Devil, taken at African Reef, Geraldton. They are a magnificent blue.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Bared Hamlet-"Give me a break" Mahahaul, Mex. DC500 Sealife by Shawn Rener
Bared Hamlet-"Give me a break" Mahahaul, Mex. DC500 Sealife
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Sand tile fish, although for some reason I have always be... by Anna Kinnersly
Sand tile fish, although for some reason I have always been told they are called slippery dicks!!! I love the colour of the scales over their gills
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Virgin Islands (British)
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My 100th post !! Wow, time flies.. this is my all-time fa... by Alex Tattersall
My 100th post !! Wow, time flies.. this is my all-time favourite... a tiny juvenile cuttlefish pretending to be a coral polyp. E900.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Lion fish trying to sneak away low down on the reef.....S... by Carl Wrightson
Lion fish trying to sneak away low down on the reef.....South Ari Atoll, Maldives.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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A slightly different view of a Parrot fish. D200,60mm. by Derek Haslam
A slightly different view of a Parrot fish. D200,60mm.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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'BASKET STAR' Certainly one of our Coral Kindom's rather ... by Rick Tegeler
'BASKET STAR' Certainly one of our Coral Kindom's rather unusual and unique inhabitants. Totally nocturnal, highly light sensitive and extremely quick and mobile. I have seen animals with five foot appendages on several occasions. Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Compass Jellyfish, Trearddur bay, Anglesey. Nikon D70s, 6... by Paul Maddock
Compass Jellyfish, Trearddur bay, Anglesey. Nikon D70s, 60mm.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Irish Sea United Kingdom
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Leafy Ghostpipefish at Maya Bay, Phi Phi Islands. Everyon... by Tobias Reitmayr
Leafy Ghostpipefish at Maya Bay, Phi Phi Islands. Everyone on the dive boat went crazy after we found this little guy in the shallow water in a swim through, hidden between old leaves
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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A different view. Galapagos 2006. by Chris Wildblood
A different view. Galapagos 2006.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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'RHINO' Rhinopias. Loloata Island, Port Moresby, PNG. Fro... by Rick Tegeler
'RHINO' Rhinopias. Loloata Island, Port Moresby, PNG. From my 'Fish Portraits from Around the World' series. Housed Nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Pacific Papua New Guinea
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Lyretail anthias in the blue. D200,105mm. by Derek Haslam
Lyretail anthias in the blue.
D200,105mm.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Simple Lizzard with the "Face on Mars" peering from behind! by Patrick Burke
Simple Lizzard with the "Face on Mars" peering from behind!
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date posted posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Seahorse taken with a sea & sea housed Nikon F50, 105mm w... by Paul Maddock
Seahorse taken with a sea & sea housed Nikon F50, 105mm with twin strobes. Na'ama bay, Sharm El Sheikh
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date posted posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sea anemone by Antoine Desbordes
Sea anemone
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date posted posted: Monday, September 18, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: France
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Octopus at night, shot with Canon G3, Ikelite strobe. by Jon Doud
Octopus at night, shot with Canon G3, Ikelite strobe.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 17, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Mating Mandarins in Malapascua ! 6 dives and 6 hours wait... by Alex Tattersall
Mating Mandarins in Malapascua ! 6 dives and 6 hours waiting, finally got a shot !!

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Get a room!
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 17, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Giant Moray by Martin Dalsaso
Giant Moray
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 17, 2006
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Philippine Sea Northern Mariana Islands
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