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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
Near Wreck by Sergiy Glushchenko
Near Wreck
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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Taken with Olympus SP550 and SeaLife strobe by Ken Macken
Taken with Olympus SP550 and SeaLife strobe
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Australia
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Red Sea Walkman (Filamenteed Devilfish Inimicus Filamen... by Trygve Borge
Red Sea Walkman
(Filamenteed Devilfish Inimicus Filamentosus)
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, February 20, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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The Splendid Toadfish, a fish native to the waters off Co... by Steven Anderson
The Splendid Toadfish, a fish native to the waters off Cozumel. This guy came way out and I think he actually likee having photos taken. Cozumel 2008
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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small branch corals hug the reef at Palancar Horseshoe di... by Marc Volkman
small branch corals hug the reef at Palancar Horseshoe dive site, Cozumel, Mexico
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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spot the stonefish on the wall at Elphinstone reef by Geoff Spiby
spot the stonefish on the wall at Elphinstone reef
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Night dive at Tistlegorm by Trygve Borge
Night dive at Tistlegorm
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Turtle in the red sea by Andy Kutsch
Turtle in the red sea
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Peach colours by Giuseppe Piccioli
Peach colours
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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ready for a teeth job by Dray Van Beeck
ready for a teeth job
shortlistedShortlisted!
57 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Red Sponges on a Wreck in Bonaire - with my wife Caroline... by Michel Lonfat
Red Sponges on a Wreck in Bonaire - with my wife Caroline in the background.... :O)...
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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very large cuttlefish Raja Ampat by Geoff Spiby
very large cuttlefish
Raja Ampat
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Lion Fish pic taken at 27m in strong current. Olympus SP... by Ken Macken
Lion Fish pic taken at 27m in strong current.
Olympus SP550 and SeaLife strobe used.
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Piti Bomb Holes, Guam by Eric Fly
Piti Bomb Holes, Guam
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Guam
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Red Sea Walkman (Filamenteed Devilfish Inimicus Filamento... by Trygve Borge
Red Sea Walkman (Filamenteed Devilfish Inimicus Filamentosus)
40 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Big Triggerfish , I have respect for him ! Taken with my ... by Beate Krebs
Big Triggerfish , I have respect for him ! Taken with my Canon S7 and INON strobe Z240
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Turtle by Erika Antoniazzo
Turtle
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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1/250 at f8 with Tokina 10-17. This shot at 10mm and as I... by Julian Cohen
1/250 at f8 with Tokina 10-17. This shot at 10mm and as I looked up I saw the diver swimming back to the boat and waited for him to go through the sun ball.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Just keep swimming, just keep swimming... Raccoon Butter... by Melanie Daneluk
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
Raccoon Butterflyfish with diver (thanks for modeling, yet again, honey!)
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Finding an ancien arab anphora in a wreck of XI century. ... by Alberto Romeo
Finding an ancien arab anphora in a wreck of XI century. very rare.
West side of Sicily, Mediterraneum sea. Natural light. Nikonos+ 15 mm.
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Humpback Snapper close focus by Sven Ter Mul
Humpback Snapper close focus
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Reefs&Rainforest by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Reefs&Rainforest
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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salt pier by Jean Francois Proulx
salt pier
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Non-stinging jellyfish taken while snorkling. I had a wet... by Erika Antoniazzo
Non-stinging jellyfish taken while snorkling. I had a wetsuit (I get cold real fast) but no weightbelt so had to keep kicking down real fast while taking the picture upside down, hard work smile took a few tries before I got the shot I wanted.
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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wall dive, Red Sea by Geoff Spiby
wall dive, Red Sea
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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My son was on the pontoon and I was swimming past when th... by Richard Harris
My son was on the pontoon and I was swimming past when this lion fish swam between us.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
different. You don't need to be deep to get the shot - just observant
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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Hawksbill I almost ran into by Dennis Jacobson
Hawksbill I almost ran into
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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