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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)
Gold Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti). Notice the polyps on the sea fan are open. D300/Inon Strobes/ 105mm+diopter.
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I wanted a shot of a pigmy looking into the camera and here it is. Pigmy number 2 was an added bonus. Olympus e330, 50 mm macro, nexus wetlens, 2 ikelite DS125 strobes. Divesite: Alam Anda in Tulamben.
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"Coral Surface"
nikon d2x 60mm macro
Bubble coral shrimp - Komodo, Indonesia
Moody denise (Uncropped with 3.5:1 magnification)
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nikon d2x,60mm macro
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tiger shrimp in lembeh strait,nikon d2x 60mm macro
Soft coral crab on its way (Hoplophrys oatesii)
Bargibanti!! Pygmy seahorse in a sea fan - Komodo, Indonesia.
The tiger
Nikon D200, 105 micro, twin strobo
Lembeh 2010
A Gnatophyllum elegans in the Mediterranean sea.
A small "micro cosmos" living on the lower engine part of our dive-boat ( close to the propeller ). Size of frame in total : 5 cm. 60mm lens with +10 diopter
Painted Frogfish (Antennarius pictus). It may look like a big frogfish, but this baby is tiny, about 6mm
Porcelain Crab amongst the fronds of a purple sea pen in the Perhentian Islands. If you look carefully you can see the eggs she's carrying.
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Brian only enters one per month - but what a one!
"It's a flat flat world, but you would be nothing without a flatworm on your side :-))" - Flatworm at night. CANON 40D, 1/125 sc. , F 13, 60 mm makro lens, 2 x sea&sea strobe.
Pink squat lobster, tucked into a crevice on the outside of a pink barrel sponge, Komodo, Indonesia.
FIRE WORM...
Flamingo Tongue shot with a Nikonos RS, 50mm Macro, and 2 Ikelite SS200's on Kodachrome film.
Fireworm closeup. CANON 60mm macro lens with +10 diopter, CANON 40D, Ike housing, 2 x Sea&Sea YS 125@ strobe. Was tricky to work with the +10 diopter...unfortunetly it's no "achromat" :-(
Emperor shrimp sitting up nicely on an orange nudibranch - Komodo, Indonesia
Tiny commensal shrimp on fire urchin, Komodo, Indonesia
Close up of the gill structure of Hypeslodoris Kanga.
Candy Crab. D300/Inon Strobes/105mm + Diopter.
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Skeleton Shrimps
Cratena peregrina, photographed with Nikon 105 macro and telephoto 1.4x
"They call me, 'Lefty'" - D300/Inon Strobes/105mm + Diopter. Less than 10% crop.
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