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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)
Super macro of pipe horse taken with a Nikon 105 mm and a SubSea 10X. The grains of sand next to the pipe horse provide a good sense of the scale. This critter was very, very small.
Parablennius
Watcher ... Anemone Shrimp - Ancylomenes holthuisi. Chaloklum, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f4.5-iso200-Inon D2000- -Inon UCL165-H2oToolsx2
Skeleton shrimp on a soft coral. Slightly photoshopped on the lower right corner to remove part of another shrimp that was showing.
crab
Cleanershrimp
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Perfect colors and focus!
Pereclimenes colemani.
I was lucky with the timing on this one. I was going for a portrait of that Coleman shrimp, when I saw it's arm going right through its face. Time to shoot smile
Triplefin blenny
Common shrimp, Palaemon serratus
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell. Reef Crab - Callinectes sp. Chaloklum, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/80-f2.8-iso200-Inon D2000- -Inon UCL165-H2oToolsx2
Pygmyface
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2014
Runner Up Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2014 awards final round judging

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Beautiful pose and composition. Great shot.
Purple Skeleton Shrimp with eggs!
Caprella spp.
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Angelic Upstart ... Sea Pen Shrimp - Latreutes sp. Chaloklum, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/160-f2.8-iso200-Inon D2000- -Inon UCL165-H2oToolsx2
The small blenny was looking at me from its burrow while I was perching around for better composition.
Wire coral goby
Pretty vacant ... Anemone Shrimp - Ancylomenes holthuisi. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/60-f8-iso320-Inon D2000-Inon UCL165-H2oTools+5x2
Harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera picta)
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Green eyes
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Bargibanti pygmy from above
saddled blenny ... apnea shoot
sharknose goby ... apnea shoot
Tiny blenny.105mm+SMC.No crop,no p.s.
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Henry David Thoreau. Hermit Crab - Diogenidae sp. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/125-f3.5-iso200-Inon D2000-Inon UCL165-H2oTools+5x2
Periclimenes
A wire coral goby shot in double macro lenses
In the eye of the beholder...
Blue Eyes
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