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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Close Focus

5171 Entries Found: Page 133  of  192
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
fan Corols
Color Eruption or Frozen Explosion or Reef Bleeding Life or... Incredible Raja Ampat
Diver on the Reef
VERY Large Barrel Sponge. Nudi Rock, Raja Ampat
Magic Carpet
Dappled light over the reef at sunset in the Red Sea.
If you were a turtle, that would be your grandma :))
shortlistedShortlisted!
Yellow sea fan in the seabed of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Nikon D300 with a 10.5mm Nikon fisheye lens in a Sea & Sea MDX-D300 housing and 2 Inon Z240 strobes (F13; 1/80s; ISO 200)
red on green...
Nemo captured...
Polycarpa aurata (Raja Ampat)
Looking up the ladder at the Salt Pier-Bonaire
THE LITTLE GUY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN....this shot took time ,about 10 minutes of patience
Heavy Rainfall, Dark Lit Morning Dive
Clavelina. Thau lagoon
Cave Coral
shortlistedShortlisted!
Spanish Lobster.
one in a sponge
Alien Space Craft Landing on a Planet Outside of the Milky Way (oddly enough, it's shaped like a human scuba diver)
shortlistedShortlisted!
underwater fireworks
GREEN TURTLE & REMORAS
Lion fish
Cabbage Patch
always trying to get a shot of these but they usually are way too skittish
The Neon Forests of Raja Ampat
Green turtle close/up
" O SOLE MIO "
This scorpion fish trying to be the "Underwater - Pavarotti" smile
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2011
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Editor's Comment
a superb behavior shot Roland
5171 Entries Found: Page 133  of  192