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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)

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shots taken using ambient light i.e. unlit by flash or continuous lighting like HID but filters on the lens are allowed if declared
Manta, Cape Vert Isl. Nik V 15mm lens
Fish eye view; Palau; Eastern Caroline Islands; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
Freediving with this female whaleshark in Mozambique was a stunning experience. Sea & sea MM2 ex +16mm
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natural light shot with a human giving a sense of scale. Pleanty of Whale shark shots, this one is in the top 5%
Sereia em Morro de São paulo - Brasil , Nikonos V com lente 16mm
Whaleshark, Cape Vert Isl., housed F90x,fish-eye lens
Silvertip Shark; Manus Island, PNG; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
Southern Stingray, with housed (Ikelite) Nikon 8008S
dolphin 2
lumache
the incub
Napoleon Wrasse; Red Sea; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Nikkor Lens
Free diver & schooling bannerfish shot @ 12m Sodwana Bay South Africa late afternoon. Nikon F100, 20mm
QL Potamageton --Potamageton at Quaker Lake, PA taken with a Sony P1 digital camera with housing.
anfore
Diffrent take on the resident Barracuda to be found on the Thistlegorm, Red Sea.
Chichirivichi, Venezuela.
Zenobia was a ro-ro ferry which went down with 104 trucks. F100, 15mm fisheye, 30 meters, no flash
The Boys from PNG
Victory Reef, Bahamas taken with Nikonos V
delphin
man....ta face on
manta
Dolphin Discovery in Cozumel. Fast shutter speeds were needed (1/250th). Most of my shots with the strobe on (1/90th shutter speed) weren't crisp. ISO 50 turned ou tot be a poor choice as it clouded over as soon as we hit the water.
Red Sea, colours brought up in photoshop
Lionfish in the Red Sea. Strobe didn`t fire, shot rescued in fotoshop with some "tweeking" of the levels.
Diving under the MV "Mersk", a fuel tanker that serves Ascension Island. Housed F90.
Check out the viz! Taken at White Rock, Ascension Island. Housed F90, snorkelling.
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