Message #242505

[Christiana Hanaman]

Second Place: Macro Photography

Photograph courtesy Davide Lopresti, RSMAS

Perhaps only a half inch (1.3 centimeters) long, according to Schmale, a porcelain crab perches on a feathery sea pen in Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

"The color palette is almost monochromatic ... I thought that was beautiful," Schmale said.

(See "Pictures: New Purple Crab Species Found.")

Published April 26, 2012