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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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2 Black Groupers hunting Bogas in the watercolumn ... by Christopher Lynch
2 Black Groupers hunting Bogas in the watercolumn ...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Amphoras and my great buddy Rico Besserdich. Taken with N... by Alp Baranok
Amphoras and my great buddy Rico Besserdich. Taken with Nikon D80 and 10,5mm fisheye. @Kaş/Antalya
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Bubble coral by Raffaele Livornese
Bubble coral
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 10, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Poisson savon à 6 lignes by André Bruchez
Poisson savon à 6 lignes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Tubworm. by Stéphane Primatesta
Tubworm.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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arco by Salvatore Ianniello
arco
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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clown tokina 10-17 by Serhat Tasgedik
clown
tokina 10-17
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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good day by Nimrod Ben Hur
good day
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Crocodilefish by Iyad Suleyman
Crocodilefish
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39 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Spider Crab on the Pier. by Richard Wylie
Spider Crab on the Pier.
2nd place Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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Strong & dynamic shadows, great sunrays without a outburned sunball, good contrast and a great composition. Looks like a double exposure but it's not - No need to play with "tricks" if you know how to use your gear ;-) Impressive shot, Richard !
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Australia
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golden moray and friend by Christopher Lynch
golden moray and friend
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date posted posted: Monday, June 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Crabzilla" Spider crab aggregations are here in Port Phil... by Richard Wylie
Crabzilla" Spider crab aggregations are here in Port Phillip Bay with masses of these guys congregating under Rye Pier. This guys crawled over my camera while I was lying on the bottom.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Australia
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"All-seeing eye" No Photoshop Results of Workshop with ... by Iyad Suleyman
"All-seeing eye"
No Photoshop
Results of Workshop with Rico Besserdich in Egypt
"Creative Underwater Photography"
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date posted posted: Monday, June 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"Pancho" He eats an play with bubbles! Always come in the... by Carlos Pérez
"Pancho" He eats an play with bubbles! Always come in the same spot in Fallen Rock wall to say Hi and play with the bubbles..:)
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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There were two Raggie Scorpina Fish having breakfast on a... by Bryan Hart
There were two Raggie Scorpina Fish having breakfast on a shoal of glassies on the Produce Wreck - this is a photo of one with a breakfast bait ball in the back ground!
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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VENTAGLIO by Salvatore Ianniello
VENTAGLIO
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Loggerhead Turtle at "Tunnels" Dive Site, Jupiter, FL, Ju... by Richard Apple
Loggerhead Turtle at "Tunnels" Dive Site, Jupiter, FL, June 1, 2012. Canon T2i, Tokina10-17, Inon Z240 Strobes, Depth 65FSW, Water Temp 73F, Nauticam NA550-D Housing.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 2, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Spadefish during deep dive-Elmo's Reef-Weda Bay, Halmahera by Richard Goluch
Spadefish during deep dive-Elmo's Reef-Weda Bay, Halmahera
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Astropartus mediterranea. by Stéphane Primatesta
Astropartus mediterranea.
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24 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 31, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Tub Worm. by Stéphane Primatesta
Tub Worm.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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sqeed at night by Ladislav Nogacek
sqeed at night
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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I wanna touch the stars (spanish dancer & bubbles) by Stan Flachs
I wanna touch the stars (spanish dancer & bubbles)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Saudi Arabia
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Sick frog fish by Abimael Márquez
Sick frog fish
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date posted posted: Monday, May 28, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Loggerhead Turtle along Juno Beach, FL Reef . . . by Richard Apple
Loggerhead Turtle along Juno Beach, FL Reef . . .
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date posted posted: Monday, May 28, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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CLose focus wide angle 2 nudibranchs on the reef at Beatriz. by Suzan Meldonian
CLose focus wide angle 2 nudibranchs on the reef at Beatriz.
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Under the light. Photo taken with Fish-eye and snoot on ... by Francesco Pacienza
Under the light.
Photo taken with Fish-eye and snoot on strobe.
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Bearded Fireworm by Mathieu Foulquié
Bearded Fireworm
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 26, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Albania
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