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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)
Tiny blenny less than 20mm long. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D, Canon 100 macro, Kenko 1.4X teleconverter and Canon 500D close-up lens.
Anilao Next Top Model Finalist. Capture by my Canon G9, INON single strobe with INON double macro @ Anilao, Philippines.
A Mayfly, an aquatic insect leaving about one year underwater before having a short tour in our dry world, a few minutes up to a few days...(freshwater)
Revealed! Managed to follow this Ornate GPF and got in close enough to find eggs in the pouch. Uncropped. 60mm + 2 diopter
My first tooth
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2009

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nice crop
Boxer crab mumy and child
Nikon D200, 60 micro,Twin strobo
Manado 2008
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2009

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good double-take
Hippo's portrait
Meeting of Whip Coral Goby taken in Amed, Bali
Female
Tiny Coral Hermit Crab approximately 5mm long. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D, Canon 100 macro, Canon 500D Close-up lens & Woody's Dioptre
Found this cute Candy Crab happy to pose for me (Not Cropped)
Very small Gobi on a softsoral, taken at Wakatobi with my Canon S70 and double CloseUp Lens
Hippocampus pontohi hanging under a small ledge in Lembeh....¸> <((((º> .... Canon G9 & Inon UCL-165's, slightly cropped.
shortlistedShortlisted!
The recently discovered Lembeh Seagragon. A yet unclassified species of pipehorse. This guy was about as thick as a few strands of hair and about 1 1/2 - 2cm long
D300, 60mm AF-S, Nexus diopter, YS-110a strobes.
(hypselodoris picta) GILLS Canon EOS 5D macro 100 mm
60 mm + Wetdiopter plus a little crop smile
Starfish shrimp (Periclimenes soror) - Nikon D300, 105mm, Ikelite, 2xDS125 - maybe cropped :-)
Very small, about 1 cm, and rare shrimp Stegopontonia commensalis found in the middle of the thorns of a sea urchin in Alor Island
We found a pair of the quite rare Pygmy Pipedragon and I was lucky enough to capture this one free swimming.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Hippocampus Bargarbanti, Pygmy Seahorse (Lembeh Straits)
D300, 105VR macro, UCL165M67 diopter
Close up of ghost pipe eye. Looking for a new composition
colorfull imperial shrimp
Blackspot Triplefin , very shy, taken at Wakatobi with Canon S70 and double CloseUp Lens
Chewing...
D300, 105VR Macro, Inon UCL165M67 diopter
Yellow, black and white
Extreme compo
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