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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)
Tiger Pipefish, Filicampus tigris
The Performing Artist: A male Yellowface Pikeblenny (Chaenopsis limbaughi) exhibits his flamboyant displays in an attempt to flirt with his nearby female pikeblenny counterparts.
Fantasy Shrimp close up, Bonaire
Periclemenes soror
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A tiny spotted Porcelain Crab sheltered within the toxic tentacles of the sea anemone!
phycocaris simulans
Golden Hairy Shrimp with Egg
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crinoid springcrab
Ecsenius nalolo in a Cliona sp. sponge
Sea eye
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging

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Beautiful capture of one of the most unique eyes in nature.
Fire worm, Divi Reef Bonaire
Blenny in circle, Galapagos Ecuador
Sun Coral - Sony NEX7 Nauticam Housing SuperMacroConvertor f/5.6 ISO-100 1/100sec. Strobe: 2xInon Z-240 fired
Cuthona sp
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Fighting tiger
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Here's looking at you !
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Beautiful Hairy Shrimp, taken in Anilao, Philippines
Beautiful Hairy Shrimp, taken in Anilao, Philippines
Yellow Goby
Costasiella Kuroshimae.
It shows a supermacro of a Skunk shrimp which is only about 2cm in length Sony Nex7 Nauticam Housing 2x inon z204 flash fired 30mm macro lens + Supermacro converter f1/3.5 Iso400 1/60 Manual whitebalance
Two dancing sexy shrimps
The Eye.
Live begins
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2015 awards final round judging
Shrimply Bluetiful
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) with Giant Anemone (Condylactis gigantea), Roatan, Honduras.
Olympus OMD EM5 MkII, 60mm Macro Lens, Subsee +10, Nauticam Housing, Dual Inon Z-240 Strobes
1/125, f18, ISO100
Top of the Heap. Coleman Shrimp - Periclimenes colemani. Bali, Indonisia
another pygmy
shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2015 awards final round judging
skeleton shrimp
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