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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)
A beautiful pair of Haig's Porcelain Crabs on a Sea Feather.
Harlequin
Underwater Happy Hour! It's easy to over look aglae, but when you get up close and personal it can be quite beautiful.
Mammy
A small Zanzibar Shrimp of approximately 5mm. Full frame photo.
Oly E-M1 with 60mm and CMC
Spiny Tiger Shrimp
shortlistedShortlisted!
Hippocampus
Harlequin
Fantasy Shrimp close up, Klein Bonaire Reef, Bonaire
shortlistedShortlisted!
~ Looking Down the Barrel ~
Dimension from left to right represents 7mm
A very small 2mm Juvenile Diamond Filefish. Olympus E-M1 with 60mm macro plus Nauticam CMC. Full Frame
Orange Blenny
Arrow Crab with tweezers, Klein Bonaire
Spotted this little pygmy seahorse at 25 meters on a seafan well camouflaged and very challenging to photograph!
shortlistedShortlisted!
Dragonya fish
ClosUp of a Banded Coral Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus).
Camera: Sony NEX7 Nauticam Housing SuperMacroConvertor f/11 ISO-100 1/125sec. Strobe: 2x Inon Z-240 compulsory.
Taken at Koh Dok Mai Thailand Ao Nang Krabi.
Date: 15.01.2016
Chrismass tree warm
Tiny Red Crab, Divi Beach Bonaire
Tiger Pipefish, Filicampus tigris
The Performing Artist: A male Yellowface Pikeblenny (Chaenopsis limbaughi) exhibits his flamboyant displays in an attempt to flirt with his nearby female pikeblenny counterparts.
Fantasy Shrimp close up, Bonaire
Periclemenes soror
shortlistedShortlisted!
A tiny spotted Porcelain Crab sheltered within the toxic tentacles of the sea anemone!
phycocaris simulans
Golden Hairy Shrimp with Egg
shortlistedShortlisted!
crinoid springcrab
Ecsenius nalolo in a Cliona sp. sponge
Sea eye
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!
Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Beautiful capture of one of the most unique eyes in nature.
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