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Shots taken of a subject between 3 inches and 1 foot (7.5 to 30cm) in size (e.g. large fish or diver head) that dominates the frame - any background is incidental and occupies LESS THAN 50% of frame
Red Sea Anemone Fish guarding its eggs.
Taken with G7X MkII, Fantasea Housing, 2x Inon S2000
Juvenile wolf eel curious about me.
tiger grouper in a cleaning station. nikon D800, nikon lens 105mm, two ikelite subtrobe DS125, aquatica housing.
''Shanny in the shallow'' in the estuary of the Eastern Scheldt
(Lipophrys pholis)
Close-up portrait of one Schoolmaster fish (Lutjanus apodus) made in Cozumel (Mexico) in sommer 2019.
ISO: 400
f:5.0
1/160seg
Corallimorph Decorator Crab (Cyclocoeloma tuberculata)
Anilao, Philippines
Shorthorn sculpin guarding it's nest in lake Grevelingen in the Netherlands.
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Finger Lickin' Good. False Plum Anemone stretching out its tentacles after a good meal
Shining Light. Colorful Gas flame Nudibranch
The Gate keepers. Sandy anemones occur also in gullies and collect passing food with their sticky tentactles. Sand also sticks to its tentacles therefore the name sandy anemones
Spiral of Life. The fan of the Red fan-worm demonstrated the Fibonacci sequence.
centolla crab. canon 60D, canon 60mm lens ,two ikelite subtrobe,seacam houisng.gardens of the queen.cuba
Clown fish in Nosy Be, Olympus TG-6, Isotta housing, Backscatter M52 wide lens, 2x INON S-2000
A little orange clownfish in his natural habitat.
harlekijnslakje, Polycera quadrilineata
ruwe wratslak,Doris ocelligera
Bruine plooislak,goniodoris castanea
Green Lantern
Coconut Octopus - Amphioctopus marginatus
Chaloklum, Thailand
A Stonefish with a Nudibranch marching over its forehead
Keep me hangin' on
Anemone Porcelain Crab - Neopetrolisthes maculatus
Bali, Indonesia
Bearded fireworm fluorescing under blacklight.
Crab sitting in a hermit crab shell
Portrait Roughhead blenny with Retra snoot
Sea&Sea YS-D2
Seahorse (Hippocampus histrix)
Denise's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise)
🔥🔥Ring of fire🔥🔥
Spotted morey eel with dream circle
Retra snoot
Sea&Sea YS-D2, Z330
Nikon D7200
Tamron 90mm
Black faced blenny ( Tripterygion delaisi)
(Canon macro 60 mm,1/200,f/20,iso200)
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