Search the Contest

Entries by Category
Entries by Sea
Entries by Country
or enter search text

forum forum Stats Portfolios Annual Medal Winners slide show Annual Medal Winners spam voting policy photo contest RSS feed rules

Weekly Hotshot

Monthly Winners

Monthly winners will be shown by the 10th of the following month

Upload a Photo

Our UW photo contest is the longest running and most prestigious online. If you want to make a name for yourself this is THE place to do it. See some famous publications about winning photos.

How the Contest Works?

Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - not swimming

19904 Entries Found: Page 15  of  738
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)
Red fan-worm displaying its feeders
Picture taken @ Point Turton in South Australia just off the jetty. I call it Mellow Yellow.
Barred_fin Moray Eel Gymnothorax zonipectis
Leaf scorpionfish yawning
Twin brothers.
Two hinge-beak shrimps at Silver Reef divesite, Dauin, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, f/22, 1/125, Easydive Leo3 housing, 2 Ikelite strobes.
Xeno crab, Moalboal, Philippines.
Nikon D80, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 100, f/14, 1/125, Ikelite housing with 2 Ikelite strobes.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Acrobatic shrimp.
Divesite Thalatta housereef, Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, f/22, 1/125, Easydive LEO3 housing with 2 Ikelite strobes.
Close-up of a longnose hawkfish
Nikon D80, Nikkor 105mm, ISO 200, 1/125, f/20, Ikelite housing, 2 Ikelite strobes
Blenny
Thorny seahorse
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2022

Final RoundThrough to 2022 awards final round judging
Octopus trying to look like an elephant
shortlistedShortlisted!
Paddle flap
Home Alone
Playing in the anemone
'grumpy' // frogfish hanging between coral.
Lybia tessellata
Resident Crabs
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2022 awards final round judging
Ring Master
The beauty of the skeleton of a giant sea clam
Gorgonian coral polyps
This is a photo of a sea-pen crab. Taken in Dauin, Philippines.
Pike Blenny
Crown Jewel
Basket Star on a palmate fan
This small pipefish lives in the Netherlands in 'het Grevelingenmeer'.
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2022

Final RoundThrough to 2022 awards final round judging
Phyllognathia ceratophthalma
shortlistedShortlisted!
Juvenile yellow frogfish. Anilao, Philippines. Subal ND500, 105mm+12.5 diopter., D-Max strobe snoot.
this is another photo of nudi & frogfish, stay together, sit together, side by side. how adorable they are!
19904 Entries Found: Page 15  of  738