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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Close Focus

5175 Entries Found: Page 107  of  192
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
anemone fish in his anemone by Caroline Baille
anemone fish in his anemone
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Batfish,nikon d2x 12-24mm by Puddu Massimo
Batfish,nikon d2x 12-24mm
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22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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white tip shark sitting on the bottom by Caroline Baille
white tip shark sitting on the bottom
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Aurelia under the Sun!! Really love this shot!! Olympus P... by Carlos Pérez
Aurelia under the Sun!! Really love this shot!! Olympus Pen EPL1 Micro 3/4
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Lionfish in the sun by Pietro Cremone
Lionfish in the sun
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Lionfish by Jurgen Pesch
Lionfish
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 16, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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This was taken on Klein Bonaire at Carl's Hill. We had d... by Mike Briggs
This was taken on Klein Bonaire at Carl's Hill. We had dove Hilma Hooker in the morning so I was setup with my Tokina 10-17 Fisheye which doesn't make getting a seahorse easy but I thought this came out pretty nice.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 16, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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Soft coral in cave by Pietro Cremone
Soft coral in cave
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date posted posted: Friday, September 14, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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clown fish in is anemone by Caroline Baille
clown fish in is anemone
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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FujiF50 compact, Inon Fisheye lens. by Vincent Hong
FujiF50 compact, Inon Fisheye lens.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: North Sea United Kingdom
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Puffer fish by Jurgen Pesch
Puffer fish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Cuttle Corner for two White spotted Bamboo Sharks by Daniel Sasse
Cuttle Corner for two White spotted Bamboo Sharks
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Frogfish & diver CFWA shot by Iyad Suleyman
Frogfish & diver
CFWA shot
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20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Face to face with a scorpion fish by Alberto Gallucci
Face to face with a scorpion fish
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Face to face with a grouper by Alberto Gallucci
Face to face with a grouper
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Soft coral by Pietro Cremone
Soft coral
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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ONE SPOT DOMINO PLAYING UP TO THE CAMERA IN MID WATER. by Niall Deiraniya
ONE SPOT DOMINO PLAYING UP TO THE CAMERA IN MID WATER.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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NIKON d2X 12-24 MM by Puddu Massimo
NIKON d2X 12-24 MM
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 9, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Tigertail SeahorseTaken at the Phi Phi Islands Camera Mod... by Daniel Sasse
Tigertail SeahorseTaken at the Phi Phi Islands Camera Model Sea&Sea DX2G; F-Stop: f/4.4; Exposure Time: 1/68 sec.; Iso-Speed: ISO-183; Exposure bias: 0 step; Focal Length: 15mm; Max.aperture: 2.5; Metering Mode: Pattern; Flash Mode: Flash Auto;
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 9, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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moray eel by Jurgen Pesch
moray eel
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 9, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Planet by Tony Cherbas
Planet
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Meeting of 2 universes. A shot that drives our fantasy : simple, spheric, genius...and well photographed !
43 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 8, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Guam
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The Flower Nikon D200, 12-24 zoom Nikon twin strobo Mal... by Marchione Giacomo
The Flower
Nikon D200, 12-24 zoom Nikon twin strobo
Maldivian sea. Ari Atoll
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 8, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Grouper Fish by Baris Civelek
Grouper Fish
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 8, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Two small morays of different types sharing a ledge bene... by Niall Deiraniya
Two small morays of different types sharing a ledge beneath a rock. The pepper moray was very curious and played to my fisheye lense while the other observed quitely from behind
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10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Mantis Shrimp Shot at the Phi Phi Islands Camera Model Se... by Daniel Sasse
Mantis Shrimp Shot at the Phi Phi Islands Camera Model Sea&Sea DX2G; F-Stop: f/4.4; Exposure Time: 1/68 sec.; Iso-Speed: ISO-100; Exposure bias: 0 step; Focal Length: 15mm; Max.aperture: 2.5; Metering Mode: Pattern; Flash Mode: Flash Compulsory;
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Taken on the Straights of Tiran in April 2012. I think th... by Dawn Thomas
Taken on the Straights of Tiran in April 2012. I think this is Tuna but please correct me if I'm wrong. Canon PowerShot G12, no flash, ISO 100, f/2.8
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date posted posted: Friday, September 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Juvenile squid "Showing Off" On my Nigth Dive. 6/9/2012 by Carlos Pérez
Juvenile squid "Showing Off" On my Nigth Dive. 6/9/2012
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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