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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Super macro

5981 Entries Found: Page 104  of  222
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)
"Primordial... deep cold... way below the line..." Alien. Hydroid Crab - Hyastenus sp. Chaloklum, Gulf of Thailand, EM5-Oly 60mm-1/250-f5.6-iso200-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools+5 x2
look me!
Ghost Mediterranean Shrimp
Sea Pen Shrimp - Latreutes sp. Mae Haad, Gulf of Thailand, EM5-Oly 60mm-1/160-f15-iso200-Inon D2000-Inon UCL 165-h2o tools+5 x2
Red Mediterranean Shrimp
"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
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