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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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Getting Whipped! by Tony Cherbas
Getting Whipped!
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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Shark egg by Claudio Stoppato
Shark egg
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Shorty snapper Picture taken in South Sound, Grand Caym... by Romeo Penacino
Shorty snapper
Picture taken in South Sound, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Sweetlips... by Ahmet Yay
Sweetlips...
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Gorgonian by Oxana Kamenskaya
Gorgonian
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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Close-up showing texture of rough-spined urchin. by Ralph Turre
Close-up showing texture of rough-spined urchin.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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jellyfish Noctiluca pelagia by Francesco Pacienza
jellyfish Noctiluca pelagia
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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A Whale shark circles overhead with divers watching on. by David Valencia
A Whale shark circles overhead with divers watching on.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 29, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Mexico
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Ocean Heart by Tony Cherbas
Ocean Heart
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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Green Turtle Canon Powershot S100 Fisheye Fix S100 Hou... by Irwin Ang
Green Turtle
Canon Powershot S100
Fisheye Fix S100 Housing
2x Sea&Sea YS110a Strobe
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Asian Sea Indonesia
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A cushion, cucumber & a mountain... S95 - no strobes, ... by Tim Ho
by: Tim Ho
A cushion, cucumber & a mountain...
S95 - no strobes, photoshop or lightroom
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date posted posted: Friday, October 26, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Flying Gurnard flying by Arun Madisetti
Flying Gurnard flying
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 25, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Sarpa sarpa & Diplodus vulgaris gathering in a cave by Antonio Colacino
Sarpa sarpa & Diplodus vulgaris gathering in a cave
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Juvenile Permit at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida. by Anthony Chacour
Juvenile Permit at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico United States
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the tunnel ... by Claudia Weber-Gebert
the tunnel ...
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Croatia
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Axinella by Salvatore Ianniello
Axinella
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 22, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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from lembeh by Ozgur Asena Yildirim
from lembeh
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 22, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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... by Sergiy Glushchenko
...
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 22, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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... by Sergiy Glushchenko
...
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 21, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Ceram Sea Indonesia
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Stairway to Catfish Heaven by Tony Cherbas
Stairway to Catfish Heaven
shortlistedShortlisted!
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 19, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Papua New Guinea
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Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) by Roland Bach
Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca)
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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"Rainbow Jelly" ;-) ...not as easy to shoot as it might look like !
43 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Fan-bellied Leatherjacket. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour. by Doug Anderson
Fan-bellied Leatherjacket. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour.
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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School of catfish and an observer from above. Loloata Pie... by Tony Cherbas
School of catfish and an observer from above. Loloata Pier, Papua New Guinea
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Papua New Guinea
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Hey Dude! Green Turtle. by Daniel Sasse
Hey Dude! Green Turtle.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Morena Verde en C-59, La Paz mexico by Alejandro Topete
Morena Verde en C-59, La Paz mexico
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 13, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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cleaning station on a section of 2 mile reef at Sodwana B... by Bryan Hart
cleaning station on a section of 2 mile reef at Sodwana Bay.
Large scary looking giant morey gets his "tats" and eye cleaned for a night of hunting that lies ahead!
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 13, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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lionfish - out of the dark by Claudia Weber-Gebert
lionfish - out of the dark
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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