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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)
The recently discovered Lembeh Seagragon. A yet unclassified species of pipehorse. This guy was about as thick as a few strands of hair and about 1 1/2 - 2cm long
D300, 60mm AF-S, Nexus diopter, YS-110a strobes.
(hypselodoris picta) GILLS Canon EOS 5D macro 100 mm
60 mm + Wetdiopter plus a little crop smile
Starfish shrimp (Periclimenes soror) - Nikon D300, 105mm, Ikelite, 2xDS125 - maybe cropped :-)
Very small, about 1 cm, and rare shrimp Stegopontonia commensalis found in the middle of the thorns of a sea urchin in Alor Island
We found a pair of the quite rare Pygmy Pipedragon and I was lucky enough to capture this one free swimming.
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Hippocampus Bargarbanti, Pygmy Seahorse (Lembeh Straits)
D300, 105VR macro, UCL165M67 diopter
Close up of ghost pipe eye. Looking for a new composition
colorfull imperial shrimp
Blackspot Triplefin , very shy, taken at Wakatobi with Canon S70 and double CloseUp Lens
Chewing...
D300, 105VR Macro, Inon UCL165M67 diopter
Yellow, black and white
Extreme compo
Cucciolo
Small sea squirt on a blue sea star. Nikon D300, 105mm, 2xDS125
One of Tulambens many Pygmy Seahorses, holding on tightly to his Gorgonian. Canon A640
found in Lembeh; d200
Eggs in a Pouch! Taken in Tulamben with Canon G9, Inon Z240 strobe & lenses.
Cavalluccio Pigmeo
grouper's eye
Goby, D70S, 105MM, DS160
Bull eye (European bullhead freshwater)
A Water Mite, (Hydracarina) about 2mm monster living in freshwater. They use their mandibles to pierce the skin of the prey and suck out its juices.
Pygmy sea horse near Moalboal. Casio exilim
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Very close to a nudibranch at night- the texture adds something to the image
Hannibal the cannibal, a mediterranean anemone shrimp (Periclimenes ametystheus) which seized another micro shrimp and was eating its head.
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