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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
Manatee surfacing for a breath by David Hall
Manatee surfacing for a breath
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico United States
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isla Coco... not only Hammerhead in coco.... by Eric Prieto
isla Coco...
not only Hammerhead in coco....
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Costa Rica
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Roatan diver looking at crab, D300, Tokina 10-17 lens by Larry Polster
Roatan diver looking at crab, D300, Tokina 10-17 lens
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date posted posted: Monday, January 31, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Honduras
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Red Serpent Star @ Crash Boat Beach Aguadilla PR by Carlos Pérez
Red Serpent Star @ Crash Boat Beach Aguadilla PR
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 31, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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amphiprion akallopisos by Alex Varani
amphiprion akallopisos
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 31, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Hawk Fish " bet you can't see me by Karl Hodgkins
Hawk Fish " bet you can't see me
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Sea lion near Cousin rock, Galapagos. by Mikhail Smirnov
Sea lion near Cousin rock, Galapagos.
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Red scorpion fish - Scorpaena scrofa by Vittorio Durante
Red scorpion fish - Scorpaena scrofa
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Vapor de Baixo wreck in Brazil by Edson Acioli
Vapor de Baixo wreck in Brazil
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is that a red filter on the strobe I see?
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 24, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (South America coastal) Brazil
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Sea coral&fish-Red sea by Yakout Hegazy
Sea coral&fish-Red sea
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Faroe islands
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Big fin reef squid by Charles Wright
Big fin reef squid
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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North Cyprus 2011 by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus 2011
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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The Sugar Wreck offers a perfect spot for a night dive an... by Steven Anderson
The Sugar Wreck offers a perfect spot for a night dive and I was amazed with the saturated colors of the many different soft and hard corals.Beautiful sea fans and whips scatter the old wreck in shallow water.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Tubbataha Red Sea fan by Joshua Tappert
Tubbataha Red Sea fan
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Philippines
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Diver Encounter with a Red Lionfish East End, Grand Caym... by Jason Eastman
Diver Encounter with a Red Lionfish
East End, Grand Cayman
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just the sort of shot in demand by dive mags
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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what a color.... by Juan Cardona
what a color....
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Trumpet and my friend Carlos. by Juan Torres
Trumpet and my friend Carlos.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Nudy in childbirth. by Levent Albas
Nudy in childbirth.
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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.... by Federico Senesi
....
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A videographer shooting a close up video of a wobbegong. by Burak Dedeler
A videographer shooting a close up video of a wobbegong.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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This image of a baby Hawksbill Turtle was a hard one to g... by Steven Anderson
This image of a baby Hawksbill Turtle was a hard one to get as he flapped his flippers with excitement in anticipation of being released into the wild as we crossed the Gulf Stream into the Bahamas.
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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.... by Federico Senesi
....
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"the last decompression beer" by Rico Besserdich
"the last decompression beer"
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Great barracuda, Snells window, the Liberty wreck and a d... by Christian Nielsen
Great barracuda, Snells window, the Liberty wreck and a diver. Another great day of diving in Tulamben. Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 15, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Pelagic tunicate colony... never expected to see this in ... by Jp Zegarra
Pelagic tunicate colony... never expected to see this in Cocos... first time I see this rare animal... did not see the hammerhead on top until after seeing it on the computer !!!
Nikon D300 Tokina 10-17 mm
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Cocos Islands
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The Circle of Light by Nathan Cook
The Circle of Light
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Friendly cuttlefish and diver. Nusa Penida Island. Olympu... by Christian Nielsen
Friendly cuttlefish and diver. Nusa Penida Island. Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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