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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
2003 Floating Nymphea--taken at Beaver Bay in Raquette Lake in New York State. It was taken with a SONY DSC-1 with an underwater housing.
Gotta love these creatures!
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2003

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As an ex-portrait photographer I have to admit most underwater portraits are boring! All that gear hides personality. Here is a great advert for underwater photography and a shot these boys will have hanging on the wall for life.
Exiting a cenote in Quinta Roo Mexico
Aquatica housing F4 20mm available light
Blue water hunter, breathing up for a 25m breath hold in the mozambique channel.
Dahab Eel Garden
Dahab Sinai
Believe these to be Trevallies? Taken with my point & shoot Reefmaster camera just off the side of the Thistlegorm in the Red Sea.
Ft Lauderdale, FL. Photo taken with a CASIO digital camera in a water tight case.
Lionfish, Kadavu - Fiji.
Soupfin shark, San Clemente Isl, housed F100, braced against a rock
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Digital on the Antilla in Aruba at night no strobe
Catalina Island, Sony P5
Taken in the Bunaken Marine Park of Manado. Beautiful coral reef and wonderful diving. Nikonos V + Sea & Sea 12mm lens
snorkeller in freshwater spring, new zealand. nikonos v with SWL 16mm lens- natural light.
Soaring/green sea turtle Hawaii. Nikonos V, no strobe.
Diver inspecting the bottom of fish farming nets in eilat Israel.
Sea Lions, Sea of Cortez, Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
Volendam
Taken in Egypt with Nikon F100, 100ASA film, used the midtones to get perfect exposure for time of day
Manta, Cape Vert Isl. Nik V 15mm lens
Fish eye view; Palau; Eastern Caroline Islands; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
Freediving with this female whaleshark in Mozambique was a stunning experience. Sea & sea MM2 ex +16mm
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2003
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natural light shot with a human giving a sense of scale. Pleanty of Whale shark shots, this one is in the top 5%
Sereia em Morro de São paulo - Brasil , Nikonos V com lente 16mm
Whaleshark, Cape Vert Isl., housed F90x,fish-eye lens
Silvertip Shark; Manus Island, PNG; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
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