Dark knight
Shortlisted!

Bonaire, frogfish

Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp

Cryptic Teardrop Crab

~ Strength in numbers ~
Octopus in False Bay, Cape Town

Decorator crab

Horsing around
Thorny Seahorse - Hippocampus histrix
Bali, Indonisia

Macro shot of a fan worm, a unique kind of worm that lives within a tube and extends their feathery tentacles to filter feed. They are quite skittish and withdraw their tentacles when they sense your presence.

The Cockatoo Waspfish
Shortlisted!

Rinopia

Anker's whip coral shrimp

Colmarshrimp

spindle cowrie

Superstar
A beautiful, unidentified star fish photographed at Blousteen in Gordon's Bay, South Africa

Sepiadarium kochi

'Cleaning House' - The tiny eyes of pederson cleaner shrimp in the waters off of Grand Cayman

Fluoro flash + red, orange, yellow Luminance fill from Gamma lights.

~ Beautifully shy ~
Snoot, Canon 7DmkII, 60mm

Hairy frogfish

A colorful goby models for the camera atop star coral. I used a very shallow depth of field to focus only on the goby's eyes, and to make the rest of its translucent body blur into the backgruound.

Pygmy Bargabanti

My first seahorse ever, such a special sighting! There were a couple of them scattered around the reef, they seemed to enjoy the cooler temperatures at the bottom.

'Out On A Limb' - A flamingo tongue cowrie off the coast of Grand Cayman

A large Hairy Yellow Hermit crab peers at me from under his massive shell.

Snooted flamboyant cuttlefish.

Startled (Peppermint) Goby

Pederson's shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni)