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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Rico Besserdich

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Diamond Shrimp having a small snack at night by Rico Besserdich
Diamond Shrimp having a small snack at night
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Wreck of an greek cotton freighter, Kas/Antalya - Turkey.... by Rico Besserdich
Wreck of an greek cotton freighter, Kas/Antalya - Turkey. CANON 40D, Ike Housing, Ike Ds125 strobe, Sigma 10-20mm lens.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Wrecks
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Just Bubbles.... by Rico Besserdich
Just Bubbles....
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Cornet Fish by Rico Besserdich
Cornet Fish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Night Princess ( Polycyathus ). Night dive shot. Original... by Rico Besserdich
Night Princess ( Polycyathus ). Night dive shot. Original size is about 4 cm. Canon 40d with Ikelite housing, 60mm canon macro lens, 1x Ikelite Ds125
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Happy freediver :-) by Rico Besserdich
Happy freediver :-)
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date posted posted: Monday, June 21, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Divers
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Turtle against the sun. Olympus CW 7070 by Rico Besserdich
Turtle against the sun. Olympus CW 7070
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date posted posted: Monday, June 14, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Eye of an octopus ( octopus vulgaris; common octopus ). C... by Rico Besserdich
Eye of an octopus ( octopus vulgaris; common octopus ). Canon 40D, Ikelite DS125 strobe & Canon 60mm EF-s macro lens.
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 12, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Flying Flatworm ( Nightdive ) by Rico Besserdich
Flying Flatworm ( Nightdive )
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date posted posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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A 1,5 cm small "friend". Took me ages to take at least on... by Rico Besserdich
A 1,5 cm small "friend". Took me ages to take at least one good pic of him, because he was swimming around all the time & looking to me like he say "don't you dare !!" ;-) CANON 40D, 60mm macro lens, IKELITE DS125
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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CANON 40D, 60mm CANON Makro lens, Ikelite Housing + IKELI... by Rico Besserdich
CANON 40D, 60mm CANON Makro lens, Ikelite Housing + IKELITE DS125 strobe. Kas/Antalya 2008
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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This happens, if you have your 60mm macro lens prepared f... by Rico Besserdich
This happens, if you have your 60mm macro lens prepared for a photo dive : Always the big buddies are coming by, then ;-) Anyway: I hope, that's the right category - close up shot of a common sea turtle ( caretta caretta ).
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Phylangia colony ( sorry, I've found only the latin name ... by Rico Besserdich
Phylangia colony ( sorry, I've found only the latin name for it ). From the diveplace "Canyon" ( left side of the wall at 12,1 meter depht ) in Kas/Antalya - Summer 2008. Thanks for looking at it :-)
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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"Dutchess of York", a shipwreck near Kalkan in Turkey. Si... by Rico Besserdich
"Dutchess of York", a shipwreck near Kalkan in Turkey. Since a lot got broken there, I decided to shoot just a small part and some nice blue with a diver in a distance. Depht was 47 meter.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Wrecks
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Flabelina Afinis by Rico Besserdich
Flabelina Afinis
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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I unfortunetly don't have much to say about this...I just... by Rico Besserdich
I unfortunetly don't have much to say about this...I just like it ;-)
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date posted posted: Monday, June 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Horozbina. A 5 cm small buddy, who is usually extremly "n... by Rico Besserdich
Horozbina. A 5 cm small buddy, who is usually extremly "nervous" and therefore difficult to shoot. If you are looking close enough, there are even in the mediterranean nice motives to find ;-)
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date posted posted: Monday, June 7, 2010
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Baby barracudas in an late afternoon dive. by Rico Besserdich
Baby barracudas in an late afternoon dive.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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The "Skydiver". Swimming with the camera below this small... by Rico Besserdich
The "Skydiver". Swimming with the camera below this small squid made the photo possible. I took it in 2009 in Kas-Antalya (Turkey)
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 6, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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the Lady in Red. Another result of an "marathon-like" mod... by Rico Besserdich
the Lady in Red. Another result of an "marathon-like" model uw photo-session ;-)
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 5, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Divers
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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It was a great underwater photo session, when I worked wi... by Rico Besserdich
It was a great underwater photo session, when I worked with my turkish girlfriend Seda on freediving wide angle photos. While I was scubadiving, she was freediving. On later afternoon she managed to "bend" herself around the sun....a amazing moment
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 5, 2010
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