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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
TRUST by Marko Perisic
TRUST
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Little scorpaena by Marco Gargiulo
Little scorpaena
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24 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Two Sea Lion Playing with me, Los Islotes Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Two Sea Lion Playing with me, Los Islotes Mexico
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Purple Vase Sponges & Diver by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Purple Vase Sponges & Diver
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Nemo spotting as the sun starts to go down in Moalboal, P... by Henley Spiers
Nemo spotting as the sun starts to go down in Moalboal, Philippines
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So many elements in this perfectly lit shot. Marine life, diver and wreck in the background! Very well composed.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 4, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Contact solar by Salvatore Ianniello
Contact solar
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2015
2nd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2015 awards final round judging

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Very creative shot! Using the background and the sun to create an eclipse-like outer space feeling. That's just awesome!
37 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Clown fish in his pinnacle home by Leena Roy
Clown fish in his pinnacle home
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Fiji
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Cuttlefish underneath the Busselton Jetty by Olivier Notz
Cuttlefish underneath the Busselton Jetty
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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"Lovely faces with kissmouthes" - Ribboned Sweetlips Raj... by Andre Philip
"Lovely faces with kissmouthes" - Ribboned Sweetlips
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Egypt, Sarm El Sheikh, Ras Nasrani Bay...Natural light,no... by Maestro Protic
Egypt, Sarm El Sheikh, Ras Nasrani Bay...Natural light,no flash.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the mi... by Steven Miller
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.. At 82 my Mom can still recite the whole p...
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Scorpionfish under the sunburst by Dmitry Starostenkov
Scorpionfish under the sunburst
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Palau
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[:b:]Intimacy[:/b:] by Francesco Pacienza
Intimacy
2 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Daylight photo under 5m..Steepheaded Parrotfish (Scarus g... by Maestro Protic
Daylight photo under 5m..Steepheaded Parrotfish (Scarus gibbus)Red Sea, Ras Nasrani Bay...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Three trees by Ponnie J
Three trees
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17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Elephant ear sponge and diver, Bonaire NA. (The sponge a... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Elephant ear sponge and diver, Bonaire NA.
(The sponge appearing HUGE with close focus wide angle).
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10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 24, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Loneliness by Wisnu Sulistio
Loneliness
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 21, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Little nudies on a rock near the surface @ scoglio del Ve... by Marco Gargiulo
Little nudies on a rock near the surface @ scoglio del Vervece
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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A diver and a jellyfish by Richard (qingran) Meng
A diver and a jellyfish
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Alert by Salvatore Ianniello
Alert
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 18, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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A genius of disguise by Stepan Reshetnikov
A genius of disguise
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 18, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippines
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Sea Lion resting, La Paz Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Sea Lion resting, La Paz Mexico
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 16, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Schooling fish on the wreck of the Felipe...Cozumel by Chris Miskavitch
Schooling fish on the wreck of the Felipe...Cozumel
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 16, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Anilao superstar- A sunny morning + large nudi= Photo op... by Mike Bartick
Anilao superstar-
A sunny morning + large nudi= Photo ops. After seeing so many of these nudi and sunball images accomplished with overlays i wanted to get one in camera
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 16, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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feather- worm in the current by Claudia Weber-Gebert
feather- worm in the current
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 14, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Giant Clam at the Ningaloo Reef by Olivier Notz
Giant Clam at the Ningaloo Reef
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 14, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Happy Mothers Day. by Francesco Pacienza
Happy Mothers Day.
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14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 8, 2015
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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