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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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Heniochus intermedius of the Red Sea by Raoul Caprez
Heniochus intermedius of the Red Sea
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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the wall at Pescador island by Geoff Spiby
the wall at Pescador island
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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I could come close enough to this friendly Longnose Hawkf... by Stephan Kerkhofs
I could come close enough to this friendly Longnose Hawkfish for a 14mm shot!
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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The Guardian This Old Puppet was Found in the Baggers... by Frank Michels
The Guardian
This Old Puppet was Found in the Baggersee Diez Germany.
Photo taken with Tokina 10-17 Fisheye Zoom

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It's not often you see a human artefact so recognizable underwater
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Germany
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Playing with light. Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70, Aquatica, Ino... by Ryan Pedlow
Playing with light. Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70, Aquatica, Inon Z240.
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29 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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A flash of color behind the bike wheel laying on the wre... by Lisa Hinderlider
A flash of color behind the bike wheel laying on the wreck of the Halliburton. Utila
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Off to sea, this image was taken in a preserve off Grand ... by Steven Anderson
Off to sea, this image was taken in a preserve off Grand Bahamas
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Hungry Leafy Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70, Aquatica housing, ... by Ryan Pedlow
Hungry Leafy
Canon 7D, Sigma 17-70, Aquatica housing, Inon Z240's.
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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INTRODUCTORY DIVE AT THE GARDENS . by Adolfo Maciocco
INTRODUCTORY DIVE AT THE GARDENS .
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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MUNCH! by James Laker
MUNCH!
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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fetherstar close focus wide angle by Patrick Neumann
fetherstar close focus wide angle
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Papua New Guinea
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Soft Coral by Julian Cohen
Soft Coral
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Papua New Guinea
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Anemone.. by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Anemone..
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Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging

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nice posed shot Tunc
42 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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"Nuisance" Potatoe Bass at Doodles, Ponta do Ouro, Mozam... by Brian Welman
"Nuisance"
Potatoe Bass at Doodles, Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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This image is of one of the 30 baby turtles we released n... by Steven Anderson
This image is of one of the 30 baby turtles we released north of Grand Bahamas Island. This is a Hawksbill Turtle.
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Huge barrel sponge. Turneffe atoll, Belize. Canon Ixus 98... by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Huge barrel sponge. Turneffe atoll, Belize. Canon Ixus 980, WA20 Ikelite & Inon D2000.
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Look Closer II by James Laker
Look Closer II
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Close up of Jelly Fish - Off Key West Fla. by Michael Cupolo
Close up of Jelly Fish - Off Key West Fla.
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (South) United States
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Brain coral with chrismas trees and cleaning goby, taken ... by Javier Sandoval
Brain coral with chrismas trees and cleaning goby, taken with a 10mm fisheye no crop :-)
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Leopard torpedo ray taken in full flight! by Stephan Kerkhofs
Leopard torpedo ray taken in full flight!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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crinoid shrimps on the featherstar with a diver on the wa... by Geoff Spiby
crinoid shrimps on the featherstar with a diver on the wall behind
Balicasag Island
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Fairy Basslet swimming over coral by Mark Reasor
Fairy Basslet swimming over coral
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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Nikon D80, 10,5mm fish eye, 2 flashes. Marsa Abu Dabbab. by Cristian Umili
Nikon D80, 10,5mm fish eye, 2 flashes.
Marsa Abu Dabbab.
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Blackside howkfish by Jozef Butala
Blackside howkfish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Jelly in the sky by Stuart Ganz
Jelly in the sky
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Palau
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La Bym by Arun Madisetti
La Bym
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2010

Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Lucky to have caught this Lionfish away from the reef! by Stephan Kerkhofs
Lucky to have caught this Lionfish away from the reef!
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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