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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Kay Burn Lim

111 Entries Found: Page 2  of  5
Baby squid. No more than a few mm long. Taken in Lembeh Straits.
D300, 60mm AF-S, Nexus Diopter, YS-110a strobes
D300, 60mm AF-S, YS-110a strobes, Lembeh Straits
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus Bargabanti),
Lembeh Straits, D300, 60mm AF-S
Change of clothes.... I was lucky enough to watch from my viewfinder this shrimp molt and kick off it's old shell in front of me! This is the last of a 5 part sequence of shots.
D300, YS-110a Strobes. Lembeh Straits, Night Dive
Bobbit Worm, Lembeh Straits,
D300, YS-110a strobes
Hippocampus Bargabanti, Pygmy Seahorse,
D300, YS-110a strobes
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the subject is nicely isolated from it's background
Shrimp Portrait,
D300, 60mm AF-S
Cockatoo waspfish portrait - Ablabys taenionotus. looking more like a floating leaf than anything else. D300, 60mm Macro
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus Bargabanti),
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
Stargazer.
D300, 60mm AF-S
Tiny Whip Coral Goby,
D300, 105VR

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we get lots of whip coral gobies but often too small in the frame. here's how you do it!
Zanzibar Shrimp meets Xeno Crab
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
The Peacock Mantis Shrimp has one of the most complex eyes on the planet. Each eye is capable of trinocular vision, depth perception and color range past UV.
D300, 105VR
Squid shot taken during a night dive. Photo was taken right before a jet of black ink was shot in my face and the squid took off.
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Probably the cutest expression I have ever seen on a Moray Eel.
D300, 60mm AF-S macro
Glowing Squid (Night dive / strobe lit)
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro, 2x YS-110a
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"Lembeh Seadragon" Taken in Lembeh mid Dec this year. At the time photo was taken, perhaps only 500 people have seen this new species of Hippocampus (Pygmy seahorse) with their own eyes. Not many photos available.
D300, 60mm AF-S. Cropped
Tiger Shrimp.
D300, 60mm FA-S Macro
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
Xeno Crab (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus) on whip coral
D300, 60mm AF-S macro
Side Profile....
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro
Evil glint in the eye....
D300, Nikkor 60mm AF-S Micro
Wonderpus in Lembeh Strait,
D300, Nikkor 60mm AF-S Macro
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro, 2x YS-110a Strobes, Night dive
Denise Hippocampus (Pygmy Seahorse),
D300, 60mm AF-S Macro, Nexus wet diopter
Taken in very strong current. I took 2 shots before my strobe arms folded back flat from the force. The Barracuda hovered around me effortlessly as I clung on like a flag, trying to take this shot!
D300, Tokina 10-17 Fisheye
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I took a few shots of this school before finally getting some symmetry out of the fish! Vis was quite bad as well as it was a muck dive site. D300, Tokina 10-17 Fisheye,
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