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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)
Taken at Sharksbay with E300.
Capo Mortola - Balzi Rossi
Canon Digital Ixus 700 + WP-DC70
Yellow frogfish
Carrying eggs. I found this spider crab past weekend in Sardina del Norte, Gran Canaria.
Mantis Shrimp - 7 Mile Reef - Sodwana Bay - South Africa
Candy-striped flatworm.
Porth Ysgaden, N. Wales.
D200,60mm.
Taken in the Kerama's Island Chain in a location called three rocks. There were several stone fish using coral heads...this one was only about 2 inches long and I finally found a hole through the coral head to get a good shot.
short back and sides any one?
Yummy
Spiny urchin in Dominica
Moray
Capo Mortola - Liguria - Balzi Rossi
Taken at Ras Caty on a night dive with E300. Found two nice ones less than 2 meters apart...
Crocodile Fish, Lembeh Straits.
60mm Macro Lens.
Just a little further to home, easy to say not so easy to do when your future meal is bigger than you.
Orange-ball corallimorph. Night dive, Turks & Caicos. D100 and 105mm lens.
Mr Grumpy .Frog Fish Navy Pier Western Australia
Periclimenes sagittifer on a anemone (Anemonia viridis). Sardina del Norte, Gáldar, Gran Canaria.
There's room for more...
Another small shrimp, Horned bumblebee shrimp (Phyllognathia ceratopthalmus), which feeds on starfish although somewhat rarer than my submission from yesterday, the Harlequin shrimp. This pair were living among sponges on a rocky outcrop.
Lizardfish Attack. Taken on Oahu's North Shore- four feet of water, natural light.
Scorpion fish taken at The Canyon Dahab with an Olympus Camedia 50/50 camera October 2005
Harlequin shrimp feed on starfish and work as a pair to move their prey from the reef to a larder where they feats on it over a week or so. This shot shows a solitary shrimp sat on a starfish arm taking a rest.
Alison Kemp found this little blenny in the coral in Nassau, Bahamas. She was using the Sea & Sea DX8000.
"3 Little Nudibranchs Sitting on a Rock"
Hypselodoris Bullocki at El Nido, The Philippines. Taken with Olympus C7070 and Ikelite Housing
FLOWERS. A group of 3 different species of ascidians found at Bunaken, North Sulawesi.
Sally K Davies got this Flaming Tounge with the Sea & Sea DX8000.
I liked the patterns displayed by the corky sea finger growing on the wall of the wreck.
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