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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 (2 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (4 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

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

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch ( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024 (Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Monday, December 23, 2024
0 votes

Pterois miles Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted 09:21 CST Today (10 hours ago)
0 votes

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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame
eyes by Marc Van Den Broeck
eyes
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date posted posted: (2 days ago)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: East China Sea Philippines
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Protula tubularia: Protula tubularia is a species of poly... by Xisca Juliá Mesquida
Protula tubularia: Protula tubularia is a species of polychaete in the family Serpulidae. This species is found in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. I take this photo in Mallorca.
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date posted posted: (This month)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Splendid Toad Fish by Phil Bear
Splendid Toad Fish
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date posted posted: (This month)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mexico
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Jellyfish - Geryonia proboscidalis by Stefanos Michael
Jellyfish - Geryonia proboscidalis
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date posted posted: (This month)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Urasterias lincki seastar amazing skin by Anton Plaksin
Urasterias lincki seastar amazing skin
4 Votes
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date posted posted: (Last month)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: White Sea Russia
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Hairy frogfish Lembah straight, sulawesi Canon Gx7m3 ... by Kristi Tullis
Hairy frogfish
Lembah straight, sulawesi
Canon Gx7m3
Fantasea housing
f10 1/60 iso 125
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date posted posted: (Last month)
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indonesia
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PONTONIDES ANKERI ile de la reunion 2024 by Didier Pasquini
PONTONIDES ANKERI
ile de la reunion 2024
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date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Zenopontonia Rex ILE DE LA REUNION 2024 by Didier Pasquini
Zenopontonia Rex
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
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CREVETTE DE DURBAN - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis Réunion... by Didier Pasquini
CREVETTE DE DURBAN - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis
Réunion 2024
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Blenny fish_Andamans_April 2024 (CanonEF100,1/250,f8,iso... by Antonio Venturelli
Blenny fish_Andamans_April 2024
(CanonEF100,1/250,f8,iso100),
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date posted posted: Monday, October 28, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea India
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Cuttlefish love parade by Patricia Rabenja
Cuttlefish love parade
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 27, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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CREVETTE DE DURBAN - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis by Didier Pasquini
CREVETTE DE DURBAN - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis
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date posted posted: Monday, October 21, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Lion fish portrait by Jose Maria Abad Ortega
Lion fish portrait
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Ceramic bleny portrait by Jose Maria Abad Ortega
Ceramic bleny portrait
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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An underwater jewel by Didier Pasquini
An underwater jewel
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 3, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Micro life on the Andamans sea_Blenny fish_April 2024 (C... by Antonio Venturelli
Micro life on the Andamans sea_Blenny fish_April 2024
(CanonEF100, 1/250,f9,iso100)
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 29, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea India
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Bavosa cervina ( Parablennius incognitus)_Oct 2023 (Cano... by Antonio Venturelli
Bavosa cervina ( Parablennius incognitus)_Oct 2023
(CanonEF100,1/200,f9,iso100)
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 23, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Lamprohaminoea ovalis (orginal name Haminoea cyanomargina... by Antonio Venturelli
Lamprohaminoea ovalis (orginal name Haminoea cyanomarginata) .It is a opisthobranch gastropod mollusc, that is, an alien from the Mediterranean coming from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal_Photo taken in Oct 2023
(CanonEF100,1/200,f10,iso100)
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 19, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Blenny fish_April 2024 ( CanonEF100,1/250,f8,iso100) by Antonio Venturelli
Blenny fish_April 2024
( CanonEF100,1/250,f8,iso100)
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date posted posted: Friday, September 13, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Andaman Sea India
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Mellow yellow. by Arun Madisetti
Mellow yellow.
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 12, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Gobi portrait_Andamans_April 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f11,... by Antonio Venturelli
Gobi portrait_Andamans_April 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f11,iso100)
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Bavosa Cervina( Parablennius incognitus)_Oct 2023 (Canon... by Antonio Venturelli
Bavosa Cervina( Parablennius incognitus)_Oct 2023
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 8, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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We often don't see them, but a thousand eyes watch us whi... by Antonio Venturelli
We often don't see them, but a thousand eyes watch us while we swim or dive with our sophisticated equipment that makes lots of bubbles. Like this friendly hermit crab which I found on a rock a few meters deep.
(Canon EF100, 1/200, f14,iso100)
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 7, 2024
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Lamprohaminoea ovalis, a very small mollusc ( not a nudib... by Antonio Venturelli
Lamprohaminoea ovalis, a very small mollusc ( not a nudibranch) with beautiful colors, which entered the Mediterranean from the Red Sea and is rapidly expanding_October 2023
(CanonEF60,1/200,f10,iso100)
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 1, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Trypterigion delaisi_august 2024 ( CanonEF100, 1/200,f16... by Antonio Venturelli
Trypterigion delaisi_august 2024
( CanonEF100, 1/200,f16,iso100)
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 31, 2024
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date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Camouflage by Julian Hsu
Camouflage
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date posted posted: Friday, August 23, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: South China Sea Taiwan
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Ocellated Frogfish being invisible by Arun Madisetti
Ocellated Frogfish being invisible
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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