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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Close Focus

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shots taken with a WIDE ANGLE (or fisheye) lens having 1) a well defined close subject (usually strobe-lit) AND 2) a wide angle BACKGROUND with a second subject, usually a diver
Turtle by Abimael Márquez
Turtle
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date posted posted: Monday, September 2, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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mediterranean fireworm by Antonio Venturelli
mediterranean fireworm
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date posted posted: Monday, August 26, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Flamingo Tongue Snail, Cyphoma gibbosum on Purple Sea Fan... by Pauline Walsh Jacobson
Flamingo Tongue Snail, Cyphoma gibbosum on Purple Sea Fan, Gorgonia ventalina
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 24, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Virgin Islands U.S.
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a moray that moves out of the den in the deep water near ... by Antonio Venturelli
a moray that moves out of the den in the deep water near Casteldaccia, Sicily
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 24, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Doyen Reef Cuttlefish - Sepia latimanus Bali, Indon... by Stefan Follows
Doyen
Reef Cuttlefish - Sepia latimanus
Bali, Indonisia
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date posted posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Purple Coral/Photographed with a Tokina 10-17 mm fisheye ... by Laurie Slawson
Purple Coral/Photographed with a Tokina 10-17 mm fisheye lens in the Red Sea at Elphinstone, Egypt
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 15, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Nosey Parker Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata... by Stefan Follows
Nosey Parker
Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata
Bali, Indonisia
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 8, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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u/w shallow life, caribbean reef, Playa del Carmen by Susanna Randazzo
u/w shallow life, caribbean reef, Playa del Carmen
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Fish and Coral tubastrea, Isla Lobos Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Fish and Coral tubastrea, Isla Lobos Mexico
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date posted posted: Monday, July 15, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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More then friendly turtle. It already knew rule number on... by Joerg Blessing
More then friendly turtle. It already knew rule number one in underwater photography: get close!
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 1, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Lions by Joerg Blessing
Lions
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 28, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Let me scratch your port... by Joerg Blessing
Let me scratch your port...
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11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Did you know that clownfish (Nemo) have many relatives in... by Robert Smits
Did you know that clownfish (Nemo) have many relatives in different parts of the world?
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date posted posted: Monday, June 24, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Indonesia
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Not too shy octopus by Joerg Blessing
Not too shy octopus
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date posted posted: Monday, June 24, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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big mouth by Marc Van Den Broeck
big mouth
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Mozambique
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The rare and endangered tiger rock cod. What a beautiful ... by Peet J Van Eeden
The rare and endangered tiger rock cod. What a beautiful creature
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 13, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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White Soft Coral/Photographed at Wananavu, Fiji by Laurie Slawson
White Soft Coral/Photographed at Wananavu, Fiji
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Fiji
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Elephant Ear Sponge/Photographed at Belize. by Laurie Slawson
Elephant Ear Sponge/Photographed at Belize.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 9, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Giant Napoleon wrasse. by Mehmet Salih Bilal
Giant Napoleon wrasse.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 9, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sponge, butterfly fish, diver, whitetip shark......the la... by Joerg Blessing
Sponge, butterfly fish, diver, whitetip shark......the last two I just found on the screen during post
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 9, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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A hawksbill turtle is sharing its meal with a goldbar wrasse by Peet J Van Eeden
A hawksbill turtle is sharing its meal with a goldbar wrasse
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date posted posted: Friday, June 7, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Poisoned Beauty by Morgan Riggs
Poisoned Beauty
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 6, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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I met this friendly guy at Sodwana Bay Marine Park by Peet J Van Eeden
I met this friendly guy at Sodwana Bay Marine Park
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 5, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Sharing a meal by Peet J Van Eeden
Sharing a meal
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Jardines reef dive, Playa del Carmen by Antonio Venturelli
Jardines reef dive, Playa del Carmen
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date posted posted: Monday, June 3, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Palmate sea fan at a newly discovered dive site in the mi... by Peet J Van Eeden
Palmate sea fan at a newly discovered dive site in the middle of False Bay, Cape Peninsula
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date posted posted: Monday, June 3, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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The cleaning station Potato Bass waiting to be cleaned... by Peet J Van Eeden
The cleaning station
Potato Bass waiting to be cleaned by cleaner wrasse
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 30, 2019
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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