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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
Juv. Parrot Fish hiding out by Joseph Lamontagne
Juv. Parrot Fish hiding out
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date posted posted: Friday, January 15, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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I took this close-up of a Black tip Reef shark on a shark... by James Francis
I took this close-up of a Black tip Reef shark on a shark dive with unexso divers last year, and although the sharks left a bit of turbulance in the water I was glad that the sharks eye was in sharp focus as he checked me out.
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date posted posted: Friday, January 15, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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Starfish... spotted... by Katherine Mckelvey
Starfish... spotted...
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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More beautiful reefs of The Solomon Sea. Nikon D300,Tokin... by Larry Polster
More beautiful reefs of The Solomon Sea. Nikon D300,Tokina 10-17
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Solomon Sea Solomon islands
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Who is watching who?. San Pedro, Belize. Canon Ixus 980. by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Who is watching who?. San Pedro, Belize. Canon Ixus 980.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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The wall by Nejdet Demirtas
The wall
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date posted posted: Monday, January 11, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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flatworm on the wall at Balicasag Island, philippines by Geoff Spiby
flatworm on the wall at Balicasag Island, philippines
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) at the San Francisc... by David Andrew
Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) at the San Francisco Wall, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Jelly fish in eel grass, Ft. Weathrill, Jamestown, RI by Margery Bradshaw
Jelly fish in eel grass, Ft. Weathrill, Jamestown, RI
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40 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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two scorpionfish mating in Cancun by Javier Sandoval
two scorpionfish mating in Cancun
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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reefscene at Apo Island, Philippines by Geoff Spiby
reefscene at Apo Island, Philippines
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date posted posted: Friday, January 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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That's a big fish! by Jarrett Regier
That's a big fish!
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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crinoid on Apo Island, Philippines by Geoff Spiby
crinoid on Apo Island, Philippines
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Sea Urchin with a spotlight on it in a night dive. by Katherine Mckelvey
Sea Urchin with a spotlight on it in a night dive.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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R2D2 photo taken on the Fujikawa Maru in Truk Lagoon. by Katherine Mckelvey
R2D2 photo taken on the Fujikawa Maru in Truk Lagoon.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Micronesia
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Anemones on a lone whip coral in a sand desert. This imag... by Garnet Hooper
Anemones on a lone whip coral in a sand desert. This image is "as taken" - no editing. Fuji e900, Ikelite housing and DS51 strobe plus Inon UFL-165AD fisheye lens.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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This image was taken last week while diving with Stuart C... by Steven Anderson
This image was taken last week while diving with Stuart Coves in Nassau. This Reef Shark is just coming out of the feeding circle.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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leaf/paper fish, Balicasag Island by Geoff Spiby
leaf/paper fish, Balicasag Island
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Tons of fish in Fiji! by Katherine Mckelvey
Tons of fish in Fiji!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Fiji
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Raja Ampat by Sergiy Glushchenko
Raja Ampat
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Ceram Sea Indonesia
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This photo of an eel was taken on Curacao on a boat dive.... by Katherine Mckelvey
This photo of an eel was taken on Curacao on a boat dive. I used a Canon DS550 in an Ikelite housing.
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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This lovely creature was ever so comfortable atop its gre... by Katherine Mckelvey
This lovely creature was ever so comfortable atop its green coral bed. It was taken in Curacao from a boat dive using my Canon DS550 in an Ikelite housing.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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frogfish hiding in a sponge on the wall, Balicasag Island... by Geoff Spiby
frogfish hiding in a sponge on the wall, Balicasag Island, Philippines
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Brilliant fans of Solomons by Larry Polster
Brilliant fans of Solomons
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date posted posted: Monday, January 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Solomon Sea Solomon islands
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Twin Gray Angels. Shot caught on a shore dive using my C... by Katherine Mckelvey
Twin Gray Angels. Shot caught on a shore dive using my Canon PowerShot DS550 in an Ikelite housing.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 3, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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nudibranch in the forground and my wife higher up the wal... by Geoff Spiby
nudibranch in the forground and my wife higher up the wall
Balicasag Island, Philippines
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 3, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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This image is of a few Reef Sharks, look closely! Sharks ... by Steven Anderson
This image is of a few Reef Sharks, look closely! Sharks are majestic and we must stop killing them!!!!!!!! The image was taken last week while diving on the Shear Water.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 3, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (South) Bahamas
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