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Underwater Photo Contest | Macro - Super macro

6042 Entries Found: Page 70  of  224
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)
F L O W - I N G
False cleanerfish (Aspidontus taeniatus)
Padangbai (Bali), Indonesia. July 2015
B O N G O - S H R I M P
Bongo shrimp (Phyllognathia ceratophthalma)
Tulamben, Indonesia. July 2015
S H A L L O W
Seaslug (Stiliger Ornatus)
Tulamben, Indonesia. July 2015
S E A - S N A I L
Smaragdia viridis
Anilao, Philippines. October 2014
F A M I L Y
Ladybug (Amphipod)
Tulamben, Indonesia. July 2015
This squat lobster on an urchin, seems to be tending an arsenal of missiles. Shot with D7200 and 60 macro lens with a +5 diopter in an Ikelite housing.
1mm aliens fighting on top of a star fish
shortlistedShortlisted!
A tiny spotted cleaner shrimp climbs on a warty corallimorph anemone. I lit the shrimp with one strobe, and lit the background with my second strobe to provide backlighting.
Who? Me? I'm a Pipefish
Tiny Mantis Shrimp shot with +10 and +5 Subsee diopters stacked
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2016

Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging
Ribbon Blenny (Emblemaria vitta)
prawn eye
Leech headshield slug shot with a +15 diopter 105mmVR lens on a d300 in inkelite housing and strobes (DS160) ON a shutter of 200 and f22 iso 400 at the kittiwake grand cayman
The evil eye of a sea horse.
cryptic shrimp
Plunge
Ornate Ghost Pipefish - Solenostomus paradoxus
Bali, Indonisia
macro eye
Bloomed
Sea horse eye
Bobtail Squid
shortlistedShortlisted!
Flabelina exoptata
shrimp on coral
Candy Stripe Shrimp
Shadow
1000 eyes - Nemo babies
"Lefty" a one-clawed squat lobster hiding under a crinoid in Puerto Galera, Philippines. Oly EM1 with 12-50mm lens at 43 macro with +5 adapter.
Miropandalus hardingi
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