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Planaria rosa ( Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii) -June 2025
(Canon RF100,1/200,f14,iso125)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
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Chromodoris annae_February 2025
(CanonEF100,1/200,f22,iso125)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
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Cratena peregrina nudibranch_May 2025
(CanonRF100,1/200,f20,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Yesterday
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Hypselodoris bullockii _February 2025
(CanonEF100,1/200,f22,iso200)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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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)
"Everything starts from a dot." Wassily Kandinsky. Black and Silver Cuapetes Shrimp - Cuapetes grandis. Chaloklum, Gulf of Thailand, EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f5.6-iso200-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools+5 x2
I am still a baby...
Colemani shrimp in a fire urchin
"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love." William Butler Yeats. Help with an ID for this wee fella? Chaloklum, Gulf of Thailand, EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f5.6-iso100-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools +5x2 - click here
Wire coral shrimp...
Snail with snoot big grin
Hamopontonia corallicola. A master of camouflage.
"All men are equal before fish." Herbert Hoover. Bigfin Reef Squid (new born) - Sepioteuthis lessoniana. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f5.6-iso100-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools +5x2
shortlistedShortlisted!
Super close-up of a porcelain crab. Too bad this shows only at 450px. The full resolution (Nikon D800, 36Mp) has stunning details. The hairs on the feelers are even visible.
"In every real person a child is hidden that wants to play." Friedrich Nietzsche. Pen Crab - Porcellanella triloba. Mae Haad, Thailand-EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f5.6-iso100-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools +5x2
yellow gorgonia super macro
Super close-up of knobbed seastars
Denise Pygmy
shortlistedShortlisted!
Ghostpipe´s eye
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2014
Runner Up Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2014 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Very precise focus for such a small subject. You have to appreciate the patience required to capture such an image! The colors are great as well.
out of the dark....
stone coral macro
nudibranch (Flabellina affinis)
Pontohi pygmy hyppocampus
Bunaken islands, Sulawesi,
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Little Pagurian Eyes
Graphic
Sea Butterfly (5mm)
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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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editor's comments

Editor's Comment
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
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