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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)
Seahorse and his babies
Gorgonian Shrimp
Harlequin shrimp waitying for a passing meal.
Crab and ball, on a night macro we found a crab rather suprisingly transporting a golfball! no where near a golf course!
Seahorse
Sponge Shrimp
Juvenile Ribbon Eel
One of many, many popcorn shrimp inhabiting an anenome
Dahab, Egypy
Canon G7X MkII, 2x Inon S2000
F10, 1/320, ISO 125
Seahorse
Goby
Gorgonian dwarf goby (Bryaninops amplus) on a shining sea pen (Pennatula phosphorea) , Alam Batu, Bali (Indonesia)
frogfish
At night, the blue-ringed octopus walks under the water
Pooping Pink Eye Goby
Pygmy seahorse
Seahorse in the adriatic sea
Spotlight Spectacle / Harlequin Crab’s Dance with Anemone
Nudi Branch in coral garden
Ring of Fire Shrimp (combination of color lights, snoot and prims lens)
This Hairy Frog fish image was taken with a Mini flash snoot.
I found this spectacular red & white spotted pygmy goby while diving off South Ari Atoll in the Maldives. I was lucky to capture this normally timid fish before it darted back into a coral crevasse.
Pipefish with skeleton shrimp
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f14, 1/100.
Skeleton shrimp
Coral Scorpion fish hiding in hard coral. Shot in Dahab, Egypt with a G7XMkII and 2 x s2000 strobes
Strawberry Anemones take over in armies.
Moray eel hiding in a bottle.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f/20, 1/125, Ikelite housing with two Ikelite strobes.
Pink is beautiful.
Goby on whip coral with pink coral in the background.
Dive site San Miguel, Dauin.
Nikon D750 with Nikon 105mm lens, f18, 1/125, ISO 100, Ikelite housing with two Ikelite strobes.
STENOPUS HISPIDUS
REUNION 2022
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