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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
sunburst in the passage by Victor Zucker
sunburst in the passage
27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 8, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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A nice spotted Moray eel at the base of a large Barrel sp... by Tom Mcmillen
A nice spotted Moray eel at the base of a large Barrel sponge.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 8, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Lionfish - Red Sea - Egypt 10-17mm Tokina by Stew Smith
Lionfish - Red Sea - Egypt 10-17mm Tokina
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 7, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Tube Dwelling Anemone.....¸><((((º>.....Canon G9 by Brian Mayes
Tube Dwelling Anemone.....¸> <((((º> .....Canon G9
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 7, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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magnificent anemone (heteractis aurora) taken in ras ghoz... by Stephan Kerkhofs
magnificent anemone (heteractis aurora) taken in ras ghozlani.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 7, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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large napoleon wrasse - 10-17mm tokina. by Stew Smith
large napoleon wrasse - 10-17mm tokina.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 6, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Red Fire by Karl Hodgkins
Red Fire
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 6, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Epinephelus tukula from "Cod Hole" by Jun Tagama
Epinephelus tukula from "Cod Hole"
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 5, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Blue On Blue New Nikonos V and the strobe didnt work w... by Elizabeth Wilson
Blue On Blue
New Nikonos V and the strobe didnt work well ...however the picture seems to jump out at you
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date posted posted: Friday, December 5, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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Merry Christmas from Texas by Bonnie Conley
Merry Christmas from Texas
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date posted posted: Friday, December 5, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Lionfish on coral. ©Amanda Cotton by Amanda Cotton
Lionfish on coral. ©Amanda Cotton
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 4, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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An Array Of Coral My first Coral shot underwater...it ... by Elizabeth Wilson
An Array Of Coral
My first Coral shot underwater...it would be nice to send it to someone who has never had the good fortune to dive in our beautiful oceans.
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15 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 4, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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Second dive with my new Fuji S5 Pro and 10.5mm by Yves Antoniazzo
Second dive with my new Fuji S5 Pro and 10.5mm
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Universal Connection This was my first attempt at underw... by Murray Scott
Universal Connection
This was my first attempt at underwater photography...I really didn't realize that pictures at 45 feet beneath the surface could be as beautiful as any picture I have seen on land ...
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Canada
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Smallscale scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) at Sha... by Stephan Kerkhofs
Smallscale scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) at Shark reef.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Lion fish under a setting sun by Nigel Wade
Lion fish under a setting sun
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22 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A close up on a Yellow Mouth Eel took it when I was in, M... by Mohammed Al Hamood
A close up on a Yellow Mouth Eel took it when I was in, Masandam \ Oman by Olympus C8080 WZ
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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diving US Coolidge in Vanuatu, watching me closely by Brian Naylor
diving US Coolidge in Vanuatu, watching me closely
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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CFA...sure...half of model is out of water...G7 in Pool. ... by Stephen Holinski
CFA...sure...half of model is out of water...G7 in Pool. Bahamas. Single Ys27DX Strobe.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bahamas
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Beauty and the beast ! Nikon D2x 12-24 lens manual exposure. by Richard Swann
Beauty and the beast ! Nikon D2x 12-24 lens manual exposure.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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diver and sea urchin in the kelp by John Naylor
diver and sea urchin in the kelp
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: North Sea United Kingdom
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Lion fish at dusk. D200, 10.5mm. by Derek Haslam
Lion fish at dusk. D200, 10.5mm.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 1, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea United Kingdom
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Grey seal. Farne islands. D200, 10.5mm. by Derek Haslam
Grey seal. Farne islands. D200, 10.5mm.
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: North Sea United Kingdom
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Leopard catsharks and Pyjama sharks trying to all cram th... by Anthony Wooldridge
Leopard catsharks and Pyjama sharks trying to all cram themselves into one little crevice during the day
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, November 28, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Feather star on fire coral. D200, 10.5mm. by Derek Haslam
Feather star on fire coral. D200, 10.5mm.
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date posted posted: Friday, November 28, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hawkfish, finally stopping - very briefly - after teasing... by Julie Rieu
Hawkfish, finally stopping - very briefly - after teasing me for ages!
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 27, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Tanzania
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Wire coral,Haloa point,Makena,Maui Canon SD750 by Jozef Butala
Wire coral,Haloa point,Makena,Maui
Canon SD750
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 27, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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