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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)
I found this little Xeno Crab sitting on a whip coral in about 25 meters depth. The crab tried to hide, but I managed to get the shot eventually. I placed my strobes left and right of the crab to get a nice black background.
Lubricogobius exiguus - Yellow Pygmy Goby
Cute
Dragon shrimp taken by D800E & Inon 240 with optic glass snoot
Profile portrait
Happy Halloween Shrimp
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2018
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editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Incredible close up of such a peculiar critter!
Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse
Spikes
A Closer Look
super macro of a Gasflame nudibranch
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Editor's Comment
Wonderful composition and colors!
A Closer Look
An ordinary Sea Star
Severns' pygmy seahorse.
Hopper laying eggs (Siphopteron sp.)
Sashimi shrimp, Romblon.
eyes to eyes
Pontonides ankeri
iso100, f36, 1/200s, with Nikon D800, 105mm vr, sea&sea ys-d2, smc1
at tulamben, bali
Big-eye amphipod (Hyperia galba) in a jellyfish, Zeeland, The Netherlands.
Crinoid Wave
A close-up look at a Crinoid arm.
Miropandalus hardingi.
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Hippocampus guttulatus
Ghost shrimp
(Periclimenes aegylios)
Neostylodactylus sp. (Inshore Hairy Shrimp)
Romblon Philippines
Next Generation
Pom Pom Crab - Lybia tessellata
Amed, Bali, Indonesia
Serpula vermicularis
Underwater flames
(Astroides calycularis madrepora)
Hairy squat lobster hiding deep in the folds of a giant sponge barrel.
Sony RX100 iii with stacked diopters.
Hairy squat lobster hiding deep in the folds of a giant barrel sponge.
Did you know that Scleractinia (also stony corals or hard corals), are marine animals that build their own skeleton and that corals, like the dome and plate species, are more bulky and may only grow 0.3 to 2 cm (0.1 to 0.8 in) per year?
Pretty in Pink
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