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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)
frog !
cup coral... night dive...
Yellow Seahorse @ Richileu Rock
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2011
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Final RoundThrough to 2011 awards final round judging

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Durban hinge-beak Prawns - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis - Durban-Tanzgarnelen
Very short stop on a coral finger
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2011

Final RoundThrough to 2011 awards final round judging
blennie nain...
nikon d70 s 60 mm micro
. . . am I not the most handsome fish you have ever seen? I am looking good today. (Male Lancer's Dragonet)
Who are you?
Leaf Scorpion close-up
Antennarius Pictus - painted frogfish
The wall
Anemone shimp.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Frog fish taken at Pyramid Pinnacles, Kona, HI
Taken with a canon D10 compact on macro setting off Euakafa Island while on snorkel. The sea urchin had a blue tinge but it was only when the flash went off that the iridescent blue came out!
imperial surfing on Bornella by Paul Ng
by: Paul Ng
imperial surfing on Bornella
A Yellow Chrinoid Shrimp in its Host Chrinoid
blue ring
3 inch bobtail squid. So cute and very shy.
Canon S90
shortlistedShortlisted!
Manicure... :O)
big forgflish
Candy Coral Crab. Komodo, Indonesia. Canon G10, dual inon closeup lenses, dual S&S YS110a strobes
Frog fish hand stand ~!
Oxycirrhites typus on the wall of the Frailes Canyon in the Marine Park of Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Cowrie and Goby
Olympus XZ-1 + UCL 02 + YS 01
Leaf Scorpionfish.Nikon D80,60mm,f29,1/200,YS-120.
little crab
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