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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
Experimented with light. Tried to get a sunburst withour burning out. Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes. F22, 1/160. Strobes aimed at coral.
Silky shark under the Royal Evolution, Sudan
shortlistedShortlisted!
Amphoras & Divers
yellow tail snapper licking my dome port =)
Buddy admiring Yellow Feather Star. Canon Ixus 85is Inon Wide Angle lens.
A friendly Humphead Wrasse in Palau
Atlantic spadefish in puerto morelos Mexico
Loggerhead in John Pennecamp Park
I Colori della Medusa Cassiopea
shortlistedShortlisted!
cassiopea jellyfish with trachurus
Nikin D70 with Ambient Light, F/4.5 1/350 Shutter
Cancun mangrove with sponges and algee
Red coral (corallium rubrum), Calanques de Cassis.
Stonefish yawn... just like a frogfish by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
Stonefish yawn... just like a frogfish
5 Gas flame nudi's sitting in a tree......
All 5 have a differeent colour variation, no nudi's were moved for the shot they were all on the one small bommie.
Corals from the darkness
shortlistedShortlisted!
Stonefish at home between the stones.
Devil Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus) and Diver
Pillow Starfish- Bat Cave, Saipan MP
Hypselodoris Picta, Hangin Out!
Almost touching the dome as he preens in front of the mirror.
Should be in Nudibranch category but its not Macro, D300, Sigma 10mm
CFWA, of the amazing corals at Rainbow reef in the Maldives.
......easy to see where the reef gets its name.
Canon ixus 100, inon fisheye lens and single inon d2000.
White Lion
Underwater mystery
shortlistedShortlisted!
Moray, North Bahamas, West End
Sunny day at Buyat bay, north Sulawesi
Seahorse on rocks. Taken with Nikon D60, with Nikkor 18-55 in Easydive Leo housing. One strobe, Nikonos SB105.
The red garden
Nikon D200, 10,5mm nikon,twin strobo
Wakatobi 2010
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2010

Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Another classic CFWA from Marchione. Colorful foreground with relaxed diver behind
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