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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)
Baby scorpionfish with it's big friend nudi (Olympus E330; Macro lens 50mm)
Those lobsters... favourite subject to shot but very difficult to get dark and blurred background, specially using internal strobe only. This one is somehow better, but I'll keep on trying.
Commensal shrimp, Periclimenes sp. on a blue sea star. Picture taken at the pier in Dauin, Negros.
Giant Frogfish at Seaventures, Mabul Island, Borneo
Sand Island,Taiwan.2007/11/10 . F-100,105mm,f22,1/90,RVP100
the bright yellow tips of a curled featherstar arm
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Hide & seek! Leopard blenny
Murena visibilmente irritata
frogfish, samal island. canon 350d, inon z240 strobes, patima housing
Riding A Roatan Wall Bareback 2007! This Seahorse rocked back and forth with the current along the walll. I used my DC 500 w/2 external flash units.
Yellow face
REGAL SLIPPER LOBSTER (uncommon) at a night dive in Desecheo Island, PR. Taken with my deceased Canon G7. (RIP)
Hermit Crab. If he talked don't you just picture a French accent??
STARGAZING/Just wondering what will the future bring!Taken at Samal Island, Davao City.
Mantis Shrimp - Taken in Anilao Batangas. Camera used: Canon A620, no strobe - 012708
PORTRAIT.
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reef hermit crab (dardanus lagopodes) taken at sofitel reef, sharm el sheikh.
Among the stars.Nikon D200 , 60 macro ,two strobo
Moal Boal -Cebu- Philippines 2008
This photo of Brain Coral was taken in Roatan during my last trip in Oct 2007. I took this photo using my DC500 w/2 external flash units. The color is so brilliant!
Xatt L'ahmar, Gozo, Malta
What a cutie! Bluestriped fang blenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhyncus). Taken in Raja Ampat. Olympus C7070, single INON strobe and dual INON macro lens.
fish-in-a-bottle. Anilao, Philippines. Canon 350d, Inon z240
Banded Boxer Shrimp - Taken at Beatrice divesite in Anilao Batangas. Camera used: Canon A620, no strobe - 012708
siladen gunaken park,nikon d2x 60mm macro
Scorpion Fish, in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Cucumber Harlequin Crab. Xiao Liu Qiu,TAIWAN.
Casio EX-Z1000. 8mm F/5.6 1/60sec. 2008/1/19...21:04.
"Juvenile Scorpionfish" This little guy was maybe two inches long. I found him during a night dive on the House Reef off Panagsama Beach in Moalboal on 6 November 2007. Canon A630/Ikelite Housing/Ikelite DS125 Substrobe/Inon Closeup Lens
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