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2024 has been the year of the bait ball in Bonaire.  This tired turtle is looking for a place to rest, oblivious of the cyclone of big eye scan just meters away.  Shot with a Nikon Z8/Nauticam housing/INON z330 strobes.
By Leslie Howell
posted (3 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (5 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (3 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Yesterday
0 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Tuesday, December 24, 2024
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted 05:47 CST Today (2 hours ago)
0 votes
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6010 Entries Found: Page 215  of  223
Shots taken (at smaller than 1:1) with multiple extension rings, diopters, or teleconverters of extremely small subjects typically less than 1 inch (2.5 cm)
Extreme compo
Cucciolo
Small sea squirt on a blue sea star. Nikon D300, 105mm, 2xDS125
One of Tulambens many Pygmy Seahorses, holding on tightly to his Gorgonian. Canon A640
found in Lembeh; d200
Eggs in a Pouch! Taken in Tulamben with Canon G9, Inon Z240 strobe & lenses.
Cavalluccio Pigmeo
grouper's eye
Goby, D70S, 105MM, DS160
Bull eye (European bullhead freshwater)
A Water Mite, (Hydracarina) about 2mm monster living in freshwater. They use their mandibles to pierce the skin of the prey and suck out its juices.
Pygmy sea horse near Moalboal. Casio exilim
shortlistedShortlisted!
Very close to a nudibranch at night- the texture adds something to the image
Hannibal the cannibal, a mediterranean anemone shrimp (Periclimenes ametystheus) which seized another micro shrimp and was eating its head.
Is that a shrimp on your nose or are you just happy to see me...
Super Macro of the Eye of a Pike Fish - done with a 105mm with a WetDiopter No2 ... :O) ...
Over the top! Crinoid Shrimp. Wakatobi, SE Sulawesi. Canon 40D, Canon 100 macro & Woody's dioptre
Single coral polyp feeding. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 20D, Canon 100 macro, Tamron 2X teleconverter & Woody's dioptre
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pontohi seahorse looking a little disdainful at having their photo taken :-0
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squat Lobster
Ultra closeup of the polyp of a coral. Only sligtly adjusted for exposure. The colours are the result in a flouresent pigmentation exposed to the flash smile used 105mm at a few inches distance.
Marbled Shrimp

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
a nice 'bread and butter' study of a critter in its habitat
Hermodice carunculata, Torre dell'inserraglio - Lecce - Italy, Canon G9 - Sea&Sea YS110 - macro lens selfmade
Baby in the hole
taken with g9....
I'd never seen pink skeleton shrimps before! These were tiny.
I used 105 lens with an extension tube to get this shot.
The eye of a young Crayfish... :O) ...
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