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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)
Hippocampus pontohi
Hey!!!!
Parablennius gattorugine
The eye & branched head tentacles
"Melo Yello" - Portrait of a miniature melo as it crawls over seaweed. A second melo can just be seen in the background.
Blenny in Home, La Paz México
shortlistedShortlisted!
Octopus eyes
it's a shrimp eats shrimp out there...
Phalium granulatum
Turritopsis dohrnii. - Immortal Jellyfish
Blackwater dive
I found this little guy alone in the anemone, I tought as he will never leave the anemone, it would be a good subject to try the CMC Macro wetlens on a Sony RX100IV (my old camera system)
shortlistedShortlisted!
master of the camuflage
Caprella sp. with young & egg
"Defiant"
I am looking you
Yellow Goby in a Bottle
small gobi on a seafeather
Winner Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Parablennius gattorugine
The eye & branched head tentacles
Gobi on hardcoral
Goby Pink Eyes.
Lembeh strait
Nikon D850 E , 105 macro with Sub Sea +10 lens. Two strobo
ISO100, F25; 1/160
3rd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Bobtail
Soft coral crab during a night dice at Pintuyan house reef , taken with Sony RX 100 IV
Lysmata seticaudata
Cleaner shrimp
The orange-red spiral of a red tube worm
The cape Rock Crab is ever present at dive sites
Miniature Melo - I wanted to show this 1/2" miniature melo in its environment. I floated below it in order to include both the seaweed its sitting on, and the seawall (in soft focus) in the background. Photographing macro in surge was...fun wink
The Armor of a Cape Sea Urchin
Echinocardium cordatum
Excavator
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