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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 (5 days ago)
5 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

sepiola hiding and modulating chromatophores
By Michele Lazzari
posted Yesterday
2 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted Yesterday
1 votes

Octopus vulgaris
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Yesterday
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted (2 days 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)
N E O N
Thorny Seahorse
(Hippocampus histrix)
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2017
2nd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2017 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
The disco seahorse - great technique and lighting.
flower on the back
Amphioctopus marginatus
Eyes on me
Boxer.
tigershrimp
Hypselodoris maculosa
Thorny.
Blue Ring Octopus playin' ball. Blue Ball.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Juvenile Hairy Frogfish
On the hunt
Abstract art
Squat Shrimp
Peering over my shoulder
Bloody Bay, Canon G16
The King of camouflage.
Killer
...proudly presenting...
shortlistedShortlisted!
supersonic eyes
Cheeky Triplefin
The best shot from following a triple of harlequine shrimps taking a ride on seastar while started to eat it :-)
Harlequine swimming crab in his house
King on his throne
"Framed"
A flamingo tongue cowrie framed by the branches of a gorgonian. I pushed myself to create a unique photograph: lined up the cowrie thru the branches, positioned my strobes for backlight & used high shutter speed to black the background.
Harlequin mother and her babies.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Whip Coral Goby
R A I N B O W
Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud - Maya Angelou
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2017 awards final round judging
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