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Normally quite skittish, this pod actively hung out with us in the water... maybe we were invited as lunch. (taken under permit)
By Arun Madisetti
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Mediterranean Flabellina_May 2025
(CanonRF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullockii_January 2025
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso200)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

Elysia timida_June 2025
(Canon RF100, 1/200,f16,iso125)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

Baby Shortnose Gar taken in shallow water in a small bay of Lake Michigan
By Max Janssen
posted Monday, June 30, 2025
0 votes

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Smaller subjects typically 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5cm) shot on macro settings or with macro equipment that are NOT MOVING usually on the bottom (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
"King of the Mountain" This King of the Hermit Crabs had some attitude! He was also bigger than his mountain....
Porcelain Crab in Anemone, Beqa Lagoon, Fiji (Nikon F4, Aquatica housing, 105mm Macro, Fuji Velvia 50)
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2005
Winner Monthly HotShots

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Now this is a fantastic use of negative space and rule of thirds
Curious arrow crab in a barrel sponge. Picture taken around 100 feet on one of Grand Cayman pristine walls.
"Gaurding her Treasure"
Peacock Mantis Shrimp with eggs taken on Seven Mile Reef at Sodwana Bay, South Africa.Nikon F-90X with 105mm Micro Lens and twin YS-350 TTL Strobes.
cleaning shrimp in anemone.Red Sea
clown fish of the red sea
"Scorpion Fish-Eye"
Taken in Sodwana Bay, South Africa.
shortlistedShortlisted!

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Always an interesting shot...
nudibranch saint jhons reefs red sea egypt
Striated Frogfish - Lembeh Strait
Scallop photographed in the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, Washington.
"Imperial Shrimp"
Imperial shrimp in gills of Spanish Dancer. Used a Nikon F-90X with 105mm Micro Lens and twin YS-350TTL strobes.
Who are you laughing at!
Blue ribbon eel, North Sulawesi, Nikon D70 w/60mm lens & two Inon Z220 strobes.
Cowrie shell camouflaged as a nudibranch.
Lembeh, Indonesia.
Sony Cybershot P9 with macro lens and Inon strobe.
I love this mixture of corals and sponges.
Taken with a Sony P9 automatic camera and external Inon strobe.
Painted Rock Lobster, Ningaloo Reef
Arrowhead Crab - Cozumel
"Frogfish Portrait"
Close up of frogfish face found on house reef at Guinjata Reef, Mozambique.
One of many Komodo Nudis
Marbled shrimp photographed on a night dive at Lanai Lookout, Oahu, Hawaii.
Quadrilineata nudi branch. Picture taken in Norway 2004.
Coney. Cozumel.
Anemoon taken in Belgie Oosterschelde
Norway 2004. Depth: 0.5 m. This picure was taken during the night at the very end of a fjord-dive on which we were shooting jelly-fish.
The picture was the last of a series of 30!!! Only then I could get this Lionfish to accept my close presence! Marsa Shagra - Red Sea
Brilliant red sea star, Ningaloo Reef
Plumed Scorpionfish - Cozumel
"Technicolour Dreamcoat"
Nudibranch shot on house reef at Jangamo in Mozambique. Nikon F90X with 105mm Micro Lens.
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