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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

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Moray by Antonio Venturelli
Moray
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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CLOUDS by Marko Perisic
CLOUDS
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Honu Generations: Young and Old by Tony Cherbas
Honu Generations: Young and Old
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2016
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Wow what a great capture! Perfectly lighting two subjects along with a perfect sun spot is not easy! Way to go!
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 18, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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a nurse shark in Banco Chinchorro by Susanna Randazzo
a nurse shark in Banco Chinchorro
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Ah damn, I dropped my trumpet. by Tony Cherbas
Ah damn, I dropped my trumpet.
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32 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Slim Slow Slider Box Jellyfish - Morbakka virulenta ... by Stefan Follows
Slim Slow Slider
Box Jellyfish - Morbakka virulenta
Sail Rock, Thailand
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 13, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Thailand
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40012112016 by Marko Perisic
40012112016
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 12, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Taking off. by Ponnie J
Taking off.
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Spray Location :Red Sea Daedalus Reef Egypt Canon 5dsr ... by Yung Sen Wu
Spray
Location :Red Sea Daedalus Reef Egypt
Canon 5dsr
Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM Lens : F9, 1/160, ISO 200
SEA &SEA MDX-5D Mark III ver.2
SEACAM SEAFLASH 150 DIGITAL*2
Light & Motion-Sola Photo 1200
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Taiwan
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THE FREEDOM... by Ramin Ardestani
THE FREEDOM...
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Persian/Arabian Gulf Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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LOVE... by Ramin Ardestani
LOVE...
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Persian/Arabian Gulf Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Like a bird by Plamena Mileva
Like a bird
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 10, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic Spain
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Following Mantaray, Isla San Benedicto México by Alejandro Topete
Following Mantaray, Isla San Benedicto México
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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Magnificent anemone in the afternoon by Olivier Notz
Magnificent anemone in the afternoon
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 6, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Underneath the Arborek Jetty by Brooke Sippel
Underneath the Arborek Jetty
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 3, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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Honu Perspective: Low-Pass Fly-By. by Tony Cherbas
Honu Perspective: Low-Pass Fly-By.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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The Healthiest Reef by Henley Spiers
The Healthiest Reef
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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The turtle by Mona Dienhart
The turtle
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 31, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Scorpionfis and sea flowers by Pietro Cremone
Scorpionfis and sea flowers
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 29, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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school of blue striped grunts on protected reef near Play... by Antonio Venturelli
school of blue striped grunts on protected reef near Playa del Carmen
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 28, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Mexico
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Mantaray with sun, San Benedicto Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Mantaray with sun, San Benedicto Mexico
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 27, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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"Spinning Sponges" The sponge in the foreground is ill... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Spinning Sponges"
The sponge in the foreground is illuminated by my strobes, while the ones in the background spin! No Photoshop.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 27, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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jelyfish by Pieter Firlefyn
jelyfish
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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three curious ones.... by Claudia Weber-Gebert
three curious ones....
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Reef Magic in Tubbataha by Henley Spiers
Reef Magic in Tubbataha
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 24, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Philippines
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Lionfish (Pterois miles) swimming suspended at midwater. by Roberto Nistri
Lionfish (Pterois miles) swimming suspended at midwater.
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date posted posted: Monday, October 24, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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'It's Raining Squid' - Two Caribbean reef squid in the sh... by Tanya Houppermans
'It's Raining Squid' - Two Caribbean reef squid in the shallow waters of Grand Cayman during a rain storm
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8 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 22, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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