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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
Trumpet Fish, Cozumel Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Trumpet Fish, Cozumel Mexico
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Two mantas swimming in a 'train'. Taken with Canon EOS 5D... by Marteyne Van Well
Two mantas swimming in a 'train'. Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark III and EF 8-15mm fisheye lens at Six Senses Laamu in Maldives
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Fireworks by Marco Gargiulo
Fireworks
39 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Puffer Fish sleeping at the wreck by Dieter Kudler
Puffer Fish sleeping at the wreck
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Micronesia
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Baby Sea Lion, La Paz Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Baby Sea Lion, La Paz Mexico
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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I discovered this frogfish but had the wrong lens with me... by Olivier Notz
I discovered this frogfish but had the wrong lens with me. 4 days later, I dived again at this place and the frog fisch was still lying a the same place! Very lazy guy :-)
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Model and squids; Nikon D3, Zoom f2.8/14-24 mm, Seacam ho... by Frank Schneider
Model and squids; Nikon D3, Zoom f2.8/14-24 mm, Seacam housing, two strobes Seacam 150 Digital
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic Spain
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"The Aquarium"; Model: Tanja; Nikon D2x, f2.8/10.5mm fish... by Frank Schneider
"The Aquarium"; Model: Tanja; Nikon D2x, f2.8/10.5mm fisheye, Secam housing and two Seacam strobes
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Model and stenopus; Model: Karin; Nikon D3, f2.8/14-24mm ... by Frank Schneider
Model and stenopus; Model: Karin; Nikon D3, f2.8/14-24mm Zoom (shot with 24mm), Seacam housing and two Seacam strobes 150 Digital
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Hyppo, Backlight by Marco Gargiulo
Hyppo, Backlight
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60 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 4, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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nemo by Ahmet Caglar
nemo
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 3, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Malaysia
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Hyppo-Sunrays by Marco Gargiulo
Hyppo-Sunrays
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70 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 3, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Hyppocamphus by Marco Gargiulo
Hyppocamphus
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78 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 2, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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nemos by Ahmet Caglar
nemos
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 2, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Malaysia
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Female Sea Lion close up by Alejandro Topete
Female Sea Lion close up
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Evasive action required! Great night dive, even though o... by Elaine Wallace
Evasive action required! Great night dive, even though one of my strobes had failed and this stingray was on a collision course with me.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 1, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Gold Jelly by Gang Song
Gold Jelly
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 30, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Palau
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Out of the Night by Billy Watson
Out of the Night
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 28, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Lizardfish...BHP Love these guys. by Mark Sagovac
Lizardfish...BHP
Love these guys.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Layers of Babylon / To me, this reef scene represents ... by Pam Murph
Layers of Babylon / To me, this reef scene represents all that is the Cayman Islands...rich in diversity, colors and life.
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12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Raja, night dive by Marco Gargiulo
Raja, night dive
45 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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School of Smallmouth Grunts (Haemulon chrysargyreum) unde... by Annemarie Kramer
School of Smallmouth Grunts (Haemulon chrysargyreum) under the Salt Pier in Bonaire
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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st gilles boucan by Joel Oosterlinck
st gilles boucan
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 25, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Reunion
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Dream Dives In Papua by Tony Cherbas
Dream Dives In Papua
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2013

Final RoundThrough to 2013 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
For the books demonstrating the rule of thirds. Very nice.
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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Spotted burr fish at Killer Pillar by Demos Thanos
Spotted burr fish at Killer Pillar
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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white froggy by Marc Van Den Broeck
white froggy
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Night dive. Longfins squids. by Andrey Shpatak
Night dive. Longfins squids.
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2013
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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