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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)
Guardians of Shipwrecks...the Lionfish.
Photo was taken at Ras Mohammed (Shark observatory) with a olympus c60
Prawn.
Aughrusmore pier, Connemara.
60mm.
Ghost Pipefish
Anenome crab
Colorul trumpetfish, Curacao
"You looking at me?"
Clown fish taken in the maldives 2006
Bunaken Marine Park August 2005
Only 8 Km West of Dili is a great dive site called Dili Rock West where there is an abundance of anemones and of their clownfish residents. This guy was feeling a bit shy.
The hammerheads of Cocos Island, Costa Rica.
frogfish at wakatobi housereef

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cracking critter close-up Cipriano
Taken in the Gulf of Aqaba D70 with 105mm macro
Very cute smiling parrot fish !! Taken with Olympus Mju 300 in the Red Sea.
Hawkfish taken at Shark Observatory, Ras Mohamed Park with Olympus C60.
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Taken at Bali, Indonesia
Happy couple at Curacao.
BRING IN THE ......! Not the tuffest capture - however, beautiful and relatively rare; yellowspot nudibranch. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens; Red Sea. Enjoy!
Image taken this afternoon at 60ft on the Kadena steps off the shores of Okinawa Japan. Sea & Sea DX-750G no additional lens used or external strobes.
Cuttlefish at Curacao
Magic Forest. Sooper macro of an Anemonefish in it's natural environment. Nikon D2X 105mm, 2XTeleconverter.
Linda Gray Angelfish, aka "Sue Ellen" on the hit TV show,"Dallas", posing for paparazi in her new role as a beautiful fish. Canon, digital rebel, macro 50mm lens.
Scorpion fish taken behind Yolanda reef, Ras Mohamed Park with Olympus C60
taken in front of my beach house at night. one of the few delights whip corals hide! difficult to get this fellow to stay put while trying to hover in mid-water.
Bobtail squid found on a muck dive in Bali.
Scale-eating sabretooth blenny at Sharks Observatory, Ras Mohamed Park with Olympus Evolt 300.
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