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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Super macro

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Shots taken (at smaller than 1:1) with multiple extension rings, diopters, or teleconverters of extremely small subjects typically less than 1 inch (2.5 cm)
Sawtooth Arrow Shrimp (Tozeuma serratum). I collected one and sent it to a marine biologist for identification. She said I may have the first live photos of this species. You don't have to go to exotic locations to capture something new!
Porcelain Crab (Porcellanella sp.) on the underside base of a black feather star.
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That man Mayes does it again!
Porcelain Crab.
Olympus E-420 With Ikelite Housing + 1 DS160 & 1 DS161 Strobe. Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG
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found in Lembeh
Arrow crab shot with D300 105mm and subsee +10 diopter
single ys-250 No crop
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Not the traditional Arrow crab shot but this one sits nicely in the frame
Pipe fish at Blue Heron Bridge.
D300 105mm fiber optic snoot at 6mm
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Night dive at Blue Heron Bridge
Blenny shot with d300 105mm single strobe with snoot at 6mm
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Cleaner shrimp in Little Cayman D300 105mm with subsea +10 diopter
Juvenile trunk shot with a D300, 105mm and fiber optic snoot necked down to 7mm. Shot at Blue Heron Bridge
Portrait of a Secretary Blenny-Bonaire
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"Tiny Shrimp on Sponge"
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Pequeno dragão
"Skeleton" in a tree swinging.
Sceleton shrimp
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New camera,new look!! apnea super macro of spider seticornis with canon G11 & macro lens
Tiger shrimp
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The Eye of a Immaculate pufferfish in the waters of Lembeh Strait... Que du bonheur... :O)...
Mini Gobby's on Macro
Design of a Clam... Que du bonheur... :O)...
urchin
Nudibranch Pteraeolinidia ianthina
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"Crab Meal"
with an interesting view on the mouthparts of this crab.
Whip Coral Shrimp (Dasycaris zanzibarica)
Pigmy seahorse
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Saca casas
This tiny shrimp is only about 1/2 cm long. I found it when photographing a pair of West Indian Simnia cowries. It was in 60 feet of water, 6 miles off the coast of Mexico Beach, Florida, in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
"Baby Sitting" - Ring-tailed Cardinalfish (Apogon aureus) - male brooding eggs in mouth. Nikon D300/Inon strobes/ 105mm.
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Harlequin shrimp
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Aleksandr posted another similar one this month proving great shots are like buses. You wait a long time and they all come at once!
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