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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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Flowers by Donato Margapoti
Flowers
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 14, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Parablennius rouxi by Donato Margapoti
Parablennius rouxi
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 13, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Prey-killer by Giuseppe Piccioli
Prey-killer
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2008

Final RoundThrough to 2008 awards final round judging

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Editor's Comment
timing, timing, timing
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 13, 2008
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Baby in the hole by Giuseppe Piccioli
Baby in the hole
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 12, 2008
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Serpula vermicularis, S. Maria al Bagno - Lecce - Italy, ... by Donato Margapoti
Serpula vermicularis, S. Maria al Bagno - Lecce - Italy, Canon G9 with nanoflash fantasea.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 11, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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MERRY XMAS, everybody!!!! by Giuseppe Piccioli
MERRY XMAS, everybody!!!!
shortlistedShortlisted!
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 11, 2008
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Rombo di mare (Bothus podas podas) by Francesco Pacienza
Rombo di mare (Bothus podas podas)
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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My first Hyppocampus guttulatus by Donato Margapoti
My first Hyppocampus guttulatus
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 30, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Fish in a Cothyloriza tubercolata. Canon G9 + Fantasea na... by Donato Margapoti
Fish in a Cothyloriza tubercolata. Canon G9 + Fantasea nano flash
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 27, 2008
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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The goby Leopard (Thorogobius ephippiatus) live in darkne... by Fabrizio Frixa
The goby Leopard (Thorogobius ephippiatus) live in darkness of submerged caves.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 14, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Fishs - Oblada melanura (detail) by Vito Lorusso
Fishs - Oblada melanura (detail)
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 7, 2008
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Perfect mimetism. Taken with Nikon Coolpix 8700 with SB-8... by Francesco Pacienza
Perfect mimetism. Taken with Nikon Coolpix 8700 with SB-800 strobe.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 3, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Mazzancolla - Nome scientifico: Penaeus kerathurus (Fors... by Antonio Imperio
Mazzancolla - Nome scientifico:
Penaeus kerathurus (Forskal)
1 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Fishs (detail) - Thalassoma pavo (male) by Vito Lorusso
Fishs (detail) - Thalassoma pavo (male)
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 2, 2008
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Donzella, male (Coris Iulis). Nikon D60, 18-55mm by Francesco Pacienza
Donzella, male (Coris Iulis). Nikon D60, 18-55mm
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 20, 2008
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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The Melibe fimbriata (=viridis) is a spectacular nudibran... by Giuseppe Piccioli
The Melibe fimbriata (=viridis) is a spectacular nudibranch living into the Pacific area and recently passed to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Channel. It was shoted while freely swimming by night at Santa Maria al Bagno (ITA)
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Corals - Dysidea avara by Vito Lorusso
Corals - Dysidea avara
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 13, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Corals - Astroides calycularis by Vito Lorusso
Corals - Astroides calycularis
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Deep Throat and tongue of a young Belone belone, night fr... by Giuseppe Piccioli
Deep Throat and tongue of a young Belone belone, night freediving
36 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 10, 2008
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Corals - Parazoanthus axinellae by Vito Lorusso
Corals - Parazoanthus axinellae
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Belone belone's rostrum taken in night freediving. I was ... by Giuseppe Piccioli
Belone belone's rostrum taken in night freediving. I was impressioned, back home, while admiring the fantastic green/blue crocodile-like look of the beak
61 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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cerianthus con piccolo re di triglia by Imperio Antonio
cerianthus con piccolo re di triglia
0 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Nudibranchs - Cratena peregrina by Vito Lorusso
Nudibranchs - Cratena peregrina
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 29, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Like a pepper grain by Giuseppe Piccioli
Like a pepper grain
shortlistedShortlisted!
67 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 22, 2008
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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This typewriter and ash cup is placed onto the table of t... by Giuseppe Piccioli
This typewriter and ash cup is placed onto the table of the captain's cabin of a wreck. This ship is really fantastic to be visited
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 21, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Wrecks
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Molluscs - Octopus vulgaris (detail) by Vito Lorusso
Molluscs - Octopus vulgaris (detail)
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 20, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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Jelly-fish by Mauro De Rinaldis
Jelly-fish
60 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 19, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Ionian Sea Italy
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