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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Super macro

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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)
Saca casas
This tiny shrimp is only about 1/2 cm long. I found it when photographing a pair of West Indian Simnia cowries. It was in 60 feet of water, 6 miles off the coast of Mexico Beach, Florida, in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
"Baby Sitting" - Ring-tailed Cardinalfish (Apogon aureus) - male brooding eggs in mouth. Nikon D300/Inon strobes/ 105mm.
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Harlequin shrimp
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Aleksandr posted another similar one this month proving great shots are like buses. You wait a long time and they all come at once!
whipcoral goby
Acropora Crab (Tetralia cinctipes)
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Commensal Shrimp on a sea whip. D300/Inon Strobes/105mm + Nexus Wet Diopter Lens.
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Peppermint Shrimp - close up.
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Super macro in apnea...
5D Mark2/ Sea&Sea Housing with YS-250 x 2
Wery small little fellow
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Wery small little fellow
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Porcelain Crab 10mm long.
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The subject really is part of the background here!
Tiger Shrimp (Phyllognathia Ceratophtalmus)
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Knocked down in love...
Face to face Fujo S5 Pro/105 VR
Little Symbiotic Shrimp in a Plerogyra sinuosa... Que du bonheur... :O)... They are just beautiful...
I don't know his name
Hippocampus bargibanti - Taken at Lembeh Strait with Cano... by Mat Yie
by: Mat Yie
Hippocampus bargibanti - Taken at Lembeh Strait with Canon G9 + Inon UCL-165 x2.
This shrimp reminded me of a snooty maitre'd at a fancy restaurant, maybe I was a tiny bit narked!
Zebra

Taken at Perhentian Island. by Mat Yie
by: Mat Yie
Zebra
Taken at Perhentian Island.
Candy Crab with eggs
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"Out of the darkness"
Anemone crab
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Pygmy seahorse ( Hippocampus bargibanti ), Tulamben, Bali
Durban Hinge-beak Shrimp. no cropping
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Hippocampus
Squat Urchin Shrimp (Sea and Sea DX1G / YS110a Strobe / Stacking diopters).
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