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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Super macro

6009 Entries Found: Page 87  of  223
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)
A candy crab i found in Tulamben
Pygmy squid with shrimp.
'Arrow Eyes'
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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Excellent shot of a fairly popular subject. Great use of rule of thirds, perfect spot-on focus and excellent framing.
New eyes look the sea
During a dive the guide discover that small seahorse
Coral Hermit Crab
5760x3840 no crop
three musketeers ; polychaete epitokes , hairy shrimp and the pelagic amphipod, Brachyscelus crusculum (has large eyes)
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea - Vladimir Nabokov. Porcelain Crab - Porcellanidae sp. Ang Thong, Thailand-EM5-Oly 12-50-iso200-f8-1/250-Inon D2000x2-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools+5x2
shortlistedShortlisted!
Hairy shrimp taken with canon G16 with macro wet lens
"Porcelain Crab in Rose Garden"
Stacked +10 and +5 wet diopters used in conjunction with snoot to create this photo.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Lemon lounge loafer
Xenia shrimp
'Hypnotic Conch Eye'
Lobatus gallus in St Lucia
Olympus EM5, Olympus 60mm, Nauticam SMC
Nauticam housing, S&S YS-D1
f16 1/250 ISO 200
shortlistedShortlisted!
Yellow Goby
"Nudibranch on Hydroid" Eubranchus sp.
Anemonel polyps swaying in the current...
Solitude is independence - H. Hesse. Porcelain Crab - Porcellanidae sp. Ang Thong, Thailand-EM5-Oly 12-50-iso200-f8-1/250-Inon D2000x2-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools+5x2
Crab's Eye
Pederson Cleaner Shrimp, fragile and delicate
Small crab
R O B O K O N
Olivar's Squat Lobster (Munida olivarae)
Mactan (Cebu), Philippines. January 2015
shortlistedShortlisted!
Candy Crab that was hiding in the soft coral
Puerto Galera, Philippines
Oly EM-1, 60mm with +5 Diopter and strobes
shortlistedShortlisted!
Nudi gills bunch (Nikkor 105mm + 10 diopter)
Yellow Goby's backlit bottle home.
Canon 5Diii in Aquatica
2* S&S 250pro
100mmL with Aquatica +10 wet diopter
shortlistedShortlisted!
Squat Shrimp Garden
Canon 5Diii in Aquatica with 100mmL and Aquatica +10 wet diopter.
S&S 250 pro with reefnet snoot
Skeleton shrimp remind me of the Skeksis from the dark crystal.
Denise pygmy sea horse.
shortlistedShortlisted!
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