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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Len Deeley

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Taken off Siquijor with 60mm macro lens
Potato Grouper accompanying a shoal of snappers and goatfish.
Shoal of sweetlips
Gaping Moray Eel taken in St Johns, Southern Egyptian Red Sea, Nov 2006.
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2007

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A cracker from Len, but does it need photoshop?
False clownfish in sea anemone tentacles. Taken with custom ringflash using 105mm lens
Thames Barges
Humpback Ballet. Taken while snorkelling with them in Rurutu, French Polynesia.
Seal in the outer Farne Islands. Lens is 17-35mm with dome port.
Ambon Commensal Shrimp on Crinoid. Lembeh Strait. The shrimp lives within the feather star and colouration matches its host.
Squirrelfish portrait. Taken with a custom ringflash using a 105mm lens.
Innocent Encounter. The spinner dolphin was photographed in the Red Sea. The baby was photographed in a swimming pool.
Hammerhead Sharks, Cocos Islands. Taken in November 05 with Nikon F90x in Aquatica housing. Converted to monochrome in Photoshop
Red Hind taken in Red Sea 2004. Nikon F90x with twin flash.
Cuttlefish photographed at Gangga, Indonesia in Sept 04. 60mm lens on F90X with Aquatica housing and twin flash.
Lemon Butterflyfishes taken in Southern Egyptian Red Sea in November 04 using 60mm lens and two flashguns. The exposure has been set to bring out detail in the black eye area while not burning out yellow.
Oceanic White tip with Pilot Fish. Taken at Daedelus Reef, Egyptian Red Sea in November 2004. Image taken while snorkelling as the shark circled the diveboat.
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2005
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Zoom this one...
Red Sea April 2004 with F90x in Aquatica Housing plus two flashguns
Composite image with reef taken in Red Sea and baby taken at a baby shoot of babies learning to swim (model release available)
Duel image, backdrop from the Red Sea, baby is a pool shot

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Editor's Comment
stop me if you've seen this one before - but still impressive if reworked well
Entering the wreck of the Carnatic. 20mm lens
False anemonefish in anemone tentacles. Manado. Nikon F90x with ringflash
lionfish taken on Tile Wreck in Sha ab abu Nuhas in the Red Sea
Manado, Indonesia, 105mm lens and two flashguns. Pink Anemonefish and anemone
Soft Coral in Red Sea, taken with Canon F1 60mm lens
Canon F1, 60mm lens. Night dive on 'the barge', Northern Red Sea
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2001

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Editor's Comment
Nice portrait from Len. This is a subject that stays still.
Vase sponge taken in Cozumel, Mexico, with Canon F1 in Ikelite housing.
Travelly in Sipadan, performing their normal formation swimming. Nikon F90x in Aquatica housing with 16mm lens.
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