Popcorn shrimp, up close and personal, on an adhesive anemone, The Nai'aborhood, Vula reef, south of Vanua Leva, Fiji.

You've probably seen many shots of popcorn shrimp from the side.  There are several on this site.  For this dive, I tried something different. I had heard of an adhesive anemone in the Nai'aborhood (the folks on the Nai'a carry branding pretty far), and I took along the 200, planning on a head shot.  After trying for about ten minutes, I began to see why these kinds of pictures are thin on the ground.  The popcorn shrimp seems to want to be at right angles to you, or to show you his tail. My guess is, even with the 200, he finds looking at the bubbles to be unpleasant.  

There was a pretty good current running, and I was tired on holding myself in position, and was getting ready to give up when a diver taking a picture of something else began to beat me about the head and shoulders with his fins. I swam away from the anemone, circled around, and waited for the other diver to finish.  When he did, I went back to the anemone, and found a spot that I'd missed before that allowed me to get out of most of the current.  When I settled in, there was the popcorn shrimp posing like you see him here.  Conscious of the shallow depth of field and the fact that probably his face and the two claws weren't going to be in the focal plane most of the time, I popped off about 20 shots, which didn't seem to bother him at all.

Nikon F4, 200mm f/4 AF Auto Micro Nikkor, Aquatica Housing, 2 Ikelite 200 strobes, f/22, Fuji Reala 100..