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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 Sibuan Island, East Malaysia
Ok, I know, no more Pygmy's. But just had to share this one anyway.
D2x, 105mm, 2xtc

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We're only bored with the red ones Rand! We've always got room for shots of this quality, even if it is a well worked subject
Nudibranch :Nikon F90X, velvia 50,105 macro, Two strobo TTL. Lembhe 2004
Feather star shrimp
Red Algae--San Miguel Island, California (Nikon F4, 105mm Macro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
Star Gazer.
Pearl in the sea (Vele luca, Corcula). Sony DSC F-717 with Ikelite housing and DS-50 substrobe.
Both today's and yesterday's pictures are of the same familly but they don't look much alike here is a little harlequin shrimp,enjoy the picture as they very rarely seen probally due too ther size (~1cm)and their camouflage ability.
Spot the Fish Bunaken Olympus C 4000
This picture as taken in the afternoon in Anilao Batangas
A pair of Flabellina. D70,105mm.
Kapalai, Sabah
Let the sleeping shark lie
Beautifully coloured feather star in Raja Ampat
risbecia tryoni--made in Lembeh Strait, North-Sulawesi.
Orange Frogfish. Lembeh straights.
D2x 60mm

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Keenly observed shot isolated with 'negative space'
Hairy Anenome crab Sulawesi Olympus 7070
Tiny, tiny ultra rare (could be) shrimp barely visible in an anenome in Taiwan.... wow... I'd vote for it :)Haha.. E900... macros
What a beauty.
Sony DSC F-717 with Ikelite housing.
Harlequin shrimps are for me, so far the best photo model. They don't move and are very good looking.
King of the Salp.
Needlefish swimming just under the surface on Jackson Reef, off Sharm el Sheikh. D200 in Sea & Sea housing.
"Watch where you are putting those feelers, you could have someone's eye out!"
Cleaner Shrimps from La Gomera in Canary Isles, using Canon A70 with internal flash
A purple blotched smasher out of its hole..... Made in Lembeh Strait, North-Sulawesi
Horned Nudibranch--San Miguel Island, California (Nikon F4, 105mm Macro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
A flounder from Hurghada
Big Nudibranche.
Sony DSC F-717 with Ikelite housing.
Twin Bullocki's Bali Olympus 7070
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