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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 (4 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted 10:23 CST Today (7 hours ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted Yesterday
0 votes
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19934 Entries Found: Page 694  of  739
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)
Bloody Henry & Dead Man's Fingers.
St. Abbs, Berwickshire, Scotland.
F90X,60mm.
Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii - Lighthouse dive - Portofino reserve - Italy
Canon 20D - 60 mm Macro lens
taken in utila with a sea & sea 5000.
leaf fish shot in kapalai,very common in this area
Varicose Phyllida - Shot off North Shore Oahu, Hawaii @ ~30'depth.
Flabellina Affinis - Lighthouse dive - Portofino reserve - Italy
Canon 20D Macro 60 mm lens
Green Lionfish shot @ ~35' depth, west shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Saturation enhanced.
Pymy Seahorse taken at Lembeh Straits nite dive. Minolta 7xi, ikelite housing
Pygmy seahorse. Kapalai,sabah,borneo.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2005

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
another pygmy - but rather a nice one
Curly Xeno - Lembeh, Canon D10. First time I've seen one of these critters not hugging the whip coral
Together again. Imperial Shrimp.Shot at Mantanani Island,SABAH,BORNEO
Flabilina Verrucosa-Taken on a night dive in Barkley Sound B.C.
D70

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
nice use of negative space
sea cucumber climber,indonesia
Royal Hypselodoris. Taken with D70,105mm. Kapalai,SABAH,BORNEO
midnight snack.indonesia night dive.f100 and 105
Brick anoneme taken at the Oosterschelde the Netherlands with a Nikon D70 with a 60 mm macro lens
These things stand out like bright yellow lights. They especially like walls. Kranket Wall, Madang, Papua New Guinea. Olympus C8080/PT-023.
Dahlia anemones.
Menai Straits,N.Wales.
F90X,60mm.
A Parrot fish off the flodia keys.
squid portrait, bonaire
indonesia ,f100/105/twin strobes
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2005

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
worth a zoom, very detailed
Zebra eel, photographed hanging upside down in the beautiful Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve, Sea of Cortez, Mexico.
Grouper at cleaning station. Little Cayman Island. D70
Hawkfish posing for the camera. Maui, Hawaii.
super camo.indonesia f100 / 105
Not to sure what this little critter is, maybe a Limpet? Shot at the Great Barrier Reef c5060, Tetra housing

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
some kind of sea slug (not limpet) Id claim it as a nudibranch even if I cant see gills
Juvenile Wolfeel. Much more colorful than the adults which usually are white/grey. Port Hardy B.C.
Nikon D2x

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Unusual, and detailed - zoom me
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