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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)

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shots taken using ambient light i.e. unlit by flash or continuous lighting like HID but filters on the lens are allowed if declared
Sardine Run in the Philippines surround diver.
Natural light
Selfie with Green Turtle
Pilot whale
"Sparkling Breaths"
A Green Turtle surfaces for a breather in the early morning light.
"Skybill Silhouette"
I have been trying to have a day a week were a shoot "Bare Neccesities" this of course is just a fancy phrase for natural light, but it has been awesome to free up the mind with flash settings once in awhile and focus on comp...
"The Passage" A journey through the most beautiful underwater passages - Conflict Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
running with the crowd - pilot whales of Teneriffa
"Pretty Shell"
A beautiful Green Sea Turtle cruises the turtle grass fields just off of Spotts Beach, Grand Cayman.
"Sandy and the Jacks"
Large Southern Stingray along the sandy bottom of Stingray City dive site accompanied by some fish back up.
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illusion.........
rockpool refelctions
freediving at "El Taccoron"
I will come for you in your dreams.
Taken 5 miles offshore looking for whales.
Longimanus
Dark Matter
Oxeye Scad - Selar boops
Tulamben Wall, Bali
Reef manta at the cleaning station. Taken at Baa Atoll, Maldives
"Take a Breath"
A Hawksbill Turtle starts a breath up to prepare for the next dive.
Retro...
Franco Banfi gets up close to a 12m Whale shark
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light and motion - the pilot whales of Teneriffe Island - with permit
A baby Humpback Whale near the reef in Bora Bora.
Diver in cave
Mantaray, Socorro Island Mexico
This creature was totally comfortable with my close positioning for the shot, but I felt the strobe may upset it at this close range, so switched it off before shooting. My buddy is in the background having just spotted a second turtle.
Taken during a trip in Curacao.
jellyfish
Ohhh!!!
"aquarium"........
Atlantic Ocean - Teneriffa Island
freediving
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