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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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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)
Netherlands - Oosterschelde
This whip shrimp was lurking and kept running round the whip to hide. Eventually his position framed him with the coral for a colourful shot of the indonesian critter.
U/W COLORS!! Taken at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands with Canon G2 and Ikelite Housing, and on-camera flash. The colors jumped out as I swam by, and I couldn't pass up the underwater floral arrangement.
A crab (Necora puber) taken with a Nikonos V using 1:1 extension tube.
Nudibranch: taken at Kwajalein Atoll with Canon G2 and Ikelite housing with on-camera flash and macro setting.
Hawkfish w/Angel
Night Hawkfish - Saipan Isla
Arc Eye Hawkfish - Saipan Isla
Nudibranchs (Flabellina sp., I think), taken in Baleal, Portugal, with a Nikonos V and 1:1 extension tube.
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Camoflagecrab on softcoral, taken at väderöarna on the swedish westcoast. Nikonos V
Eye of the beholder. Simpa with diver, taken in the swedish fjord gullmar`n with nikonos V
gas flame nudibranch taken in Sodwana bay South Africa

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
I'm always a sucker for a brightly colored nudibranch!
Arc Eye Hawkfish
Arrow Crab, Freeport Grand Bahama- Taken with Nikon coolpix 995
This seahorse is about the size of a small fingermail. It was taken in the Lembeh straits North Sulawesi, Indonesia towards the end of 2001
Chichirivichi, Venezuela.
Chichirivichi, Venezuela.
Chichirivichi, Venezuela.
Sea hare (Aplysia punctata) taken with a Bonica Seaking Snapper (34mm, 1/125s) with 1:6 macro in Baleal (Portugal)
"BIG MAC" a doughboy scallop .Rye pier Melbourne Australia
trumpetfish, Grand Turk, Nikon 990
CANGREJO, NASSAU, BAHAMAS. DIGITAL SONY
Nudibranch (Dendrodoris Denisoni) taken in Leigh, NZ, December 2001. Nikonos IV-A with 1:2 extension tube, Ikelite Ai on manual. I couldn't fit the entire animal in the framers it was so big.
Sea-Horse, Porto Alga (Polignano - Bari) Italy
Winner Monthly HotShots

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Here's a nice example of color contrast. Good shot Giorgio!
While waiting for sharks in the Maldives I found this
Not one, but two Imperial shrimps on a nudibranch at the Hairball Divesite in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. 60mm lens/F90 Aquatica Housing
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