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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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Porkfish at Paso De Cedral - Cozumel - These fish are ve... by Steven Anderson
Porkfish at Paso De Cedral - Cozumel - These fish are very photogenic and are usually schooling in the same area on this reef.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Do you feel like a star ? :) Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye with... by Andre Yanco
Do you feel like a star ? smile Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye with YS-110 in TTL Mode. Shot off the coast of Cesme.
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Checkin out the action. by Lee Arbo
Checkin out the action.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Banda Sea on board Archipelago Adventurer II, D300-Tokina... by Larry Polster
Banda Sea on board Archipelago Adventurer II, D300-Tokina 10-17mm
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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A grouper Variola louti and u/w photographer. Nikonos 15... by Alberto Romeo
A grouper Variola louti and u/w photographer.
Nikonos 15 mm+ Ikelite strobe
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Laguna Berenice by Alberto D'este
Laguna Berenice
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Frogfish on the Salem Express. Canon G9 with Ikelite DS51... by James Dawson
Frogfish on the Salem Express. Canon G9 with Ikelite DS51 strobe

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You nicely filled the frame here James. For those who can't see it, it's a side view, the fish's face is right. Wow it never fails to amaze how fish camouflage, this looks like a piece of wreck, complete with rust!
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A magnificent example of a Giant Sea Fan (Annella mollis)... by Marko Perisic
A magnificent example of a Giant Sea Fan (Annella mollis) standing tall in the current of Little Brother Island.
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Can you see me? Are you sure??? Spotted Scorpion Fish @... by Frankie Rivera
Can you see me? Are you sure???
Spotted Scorpion Fish @ Crash Boat Piers, Aguadilla Puerto Rico
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Raccoon butterflyfish by Cigdem Cooper
Raccoon butterflyfish
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Seahorse at Clown City - Puerto Gallera, Mindoro by Juerg Ziegler
Seahorse at Clown City - Puerto Gallera, Mindoro
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Caroline - my wife - in the waters of the Red Sea... Que ... by Michel Lonfat
Caroline - my wife - in the waters of the Red Sea... Que du Bonheur... :O)...
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Picture of a ling, living on the ww2 wreck "Barcelona" by Harald Fauske
Picture of a ling, living on the ww2 wreck "Barcelona"
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Norway
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nikonos 15 mm cozumel by John Strickland
nikonos 15 mm cozumel
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Jelly Fish eats my dive buddy!!!! This was taken durin... by Frankie Rivera
Jelly Fish eats my dive buddy!!!!
This was taken during my safety stop.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Juvenile Green turtle off Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida. by Theresa Tracy
Juvenile Green turtle off Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Another beautiful sponge in Utila Honduras. by Lee Arbo
Another beautiful sponge in Utila Honduras.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea United States
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softcoral forest by Heru Suryoko
softcoral forest
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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shot with a Nikon D70s by Simon Gardener
shot with a Nikon D70s
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sponge with diver, Jack Neil Beach, Utila. Canon EOS 350d... by Tobias Reitmayr
Sponge with diver, Jack Neil Beach, Utila. Canon EOS 350d, 10-22mm
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Batfish at ras Mohammed. by Dray Van Beeck
Batfish at ras Mohammed.
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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seafan diver by Heru Suryoko
seafan diver
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 28, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Crinoid and red soft coral, Cebu, Philippines by Alberto D'este
Crinoid and red soft coral, Cebu, Philippines
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 28, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Juvenile Platax in Derawan Jetty by Alberto D'este
Juvenile Platax in Derawan Jetty
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Brunei Darussalam
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NIKONOS 15mm by John Strickland
NIKONOS 15mm
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date posted posted: Monday, May 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Tube Sponge and a boat-Bonaire 2009 by Richard Goluch
Tube Sponge and a boat-Bonaire 2009
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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DEEP OCEAN CAVE FILLED WITH COLORFUL SEA FANS AND MY LOVE... by Nicolas Pohl
DEEP OCEAN CAVE FILLED WITH COLORFUL SEA FANS AND MY LOVELY WIFE.
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Northern Mariana Islands
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