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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)
Did you know that Porcelain crabs are small, usually with body widths of less than 15 mm (0.59 in)? They also share the general body plan of a squat lobster, but their bodies are more compact and flattened, an adaptation for living and hiding under r
Eye of a Common marine hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), Zeeland, The Netherlands.
Tiny shrimp on a Whip coral.
Juvenile Puget Sound King Crab, so tiny and so beautiful
Bubble...
Dardanus calidus
Eyes
"Eye of the octopus"
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Bargibanti Sea horse close up.
Severn's pygmy seahorse.
Trinchesia sp. Pencil Power! LoL!
White Walker. Skeleton shrimp on blue tunicate
Not all that glitters ...
Wire Coral Shrimp - Pontonides uncigeri
Padagbai, Bali, Indonesia
Fluorescent coral polyps, Lembeh Straight, Indonesia
Tripterygion melanurus
Coral Hermit Crab (Paguritta Vitiate)
Aka Island, Okinawa-Japan
Extreme Super Macro
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Fluorescent hermit crab
A tiny ( < 1 inch) mosshead warbonnet hiding in an empty barnacle husk. Howe Sound, BC, Canada.
Red tubeworms are typically very skittish, but this one allowed me to get close enough for one super-macro shot before disappearing into its protective tube. Howe Sound, BC, Canada.
Crab
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Crustacea: Amphipoda. Size of this tiny creature is approx. 0.5 cm.
3rd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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There's only one photographer who can shoot a creature this small and still focus spot on the eyes! Great job Iyad!
Pipefish twisting its way up an old mooring rope!
Blenny bloke.
Big eye shrimp. Metapenaeopsis lamellate.
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Final RoundThrough to 2018 awards final round judging
Fantasy Shrimp in anemona, Klein Bonaire
Super tiny squid Idiosepius species
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Very small algae shrimp standing alone.
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Tripterygion delaisi
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