2nd place
silver star award
William Goodwin
united states 
Photo © William Goodwin
title
In the Hall of the Shrimp Queen
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entry description
This diminutive Peppermint Shrimp keeps watch from her vase sponge where she almost never turns sideways which would permit me to keep her all in focus with the tiny depth of field allowed at this magnification - but she did! This was at 85' deep and it was quite the balancing act to illuminate her cave from without with my video light shining through the thin wall of the sponge and take the picture without touching the sponge and sending her running through a rain of detritus particles from the sponge interior. This was in the waters of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles some 50 miles from Venezuela.about the photographer
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