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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
Red soft corals from Marmara Island. Taken with Nikon D80... by Alp Baranok
Red soft corals from Marmara Island. Taken with Nikon D80, 10,5 mm fisheye lens, 2xYS110 strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Marmara Turkey
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Vanity ! Hairy Frogfish, TAR Park, Sabah, Borneo by Richard Swann
Vanity ! Hairy Frogfish, TAR Park, Sabah, Borneo
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date posted posted: Monday, August 16, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Green Humphead Parrot fish under the Liberty Wreck (follo... by Raoul Caprez
Green Humphead Parrot fish under the Liberty Wreck (followed by my wife)
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date posted posted: Monday, August 16, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Ornate Ghost Pipefish & Diver Ras Zaa'tar by Adolfo Maciocco
Ornate Ghost Pipefish & Diver
Ras Zaa'tar
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Red anemone and Schnell's window... by Dray Van Beeck
Red anemone and Schnell's window...
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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CFWA. Wire Coral Goby & Diver by Nicholas Samaras
CFWA. Wire Coral Goby & Diver
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2010
3rd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging

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There's some speculation how this one was done. Looks like an old fashioned double exposure (remember them?) given the extremes in subject size I'd say two lenses were used but it was a Tokina 10-17mm Fisheye.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Canon G9 Ikelite f/3.2 1/1250 ISO 100 no flash by Ronaldo Cavichiolli
Canon G9 Ikelite
f/3.2 1/1250
ISO 100
no flash
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Puffer Fish. Close focus. Olimpys M 700 by Svetoslav Dimitrov
Puffer Fish. Close focus. Olimpys M 700
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"Octocorals and Sardines" seen at the wonderful Pescad... by Henry Jager
"Octocorals and Sardines"
seen at the wonderful Pescador Island and taken with the 8mm fisheye lens.
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35 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 26, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Curious fish! by Svetoslav Dimitrov
Curious fish!
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Anemone, Cracked Conch shore dive, Grand Cayman. by Patrick Reardon
Anemone, Cracked Conch shore dive, Grand Cayman.
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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lunch time in a field of sea grass - Marsa Abu Abab - Egy... by Patrick Tutt
lunch time in a field of sea grass - Marsa Abu Abab - Egypt - Canon S90, natural light
Runner Up Monthly HotShots

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excellent CWFA Patrick
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date posted posted: Friday, July 23, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Coral beauty.....on the Yamagiri Wreck in Truk Lagoon. C... by Jackie Campbell
Coral beauty.....on the Yamagiri Wreck in Truk Lagoon.
Canon ixus 100, fisheye lens and single inon d2000.
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date posted posted: Friday, July 23, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Micronesia
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The black hole. by Andres L-M_larraz
The black hole.
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Octopus Eye and Siphon Nikon D80 with 105mm lens, Two st... by Pedro Padilla
Octopus Eye and Siphon
Nikon D80 with 105mm lens, Two strobe Ikelite DS160.
Shoot F/16 @ 1/180 sec. ISO 200
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Queen Angel looking for a tasty sponge to munch on. by Lisa Hinderlider
Queen Angel looking for a tasty sponge to munch on.
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 18, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) Shot on 34m in ... by Jorn Ari
Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)
Shot on 34m in Danish water in July. Watertemp = 4 degrees
Olympus E-420 With Ikelite Housing + 1 DS160 & 1 DS161 Strobe.
Olympus 8mm Fish Eye, f/10 , 1/60 s , ISO 400
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date posted posted: Friday, July 16, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Denmark
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frog fish on bikini - the bluff by Bryan Hart
frog fish on bikini - the bluff
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 15, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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"Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy" A master at camouflage, the F... by Karen Christopher
"Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy"
A master at camouflage, the Frog Fish attracts its prey using its own "lure".
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 15, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Big fun Nikon D200, 10,5mm nikon.Twin strobo. and wonde... by Marchione Giacomo
Big fun
Nikon D200, 10,5mm nikon.Twin strobo.
and wonderfull model
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 15, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bohol Sea Philippines
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Section on Blood Reef off the Bluff Durban called Bikini.... by Bryan Hart
Section on Blood Reef off the Bluff Durban called Bikini. Tiny reef home to many things.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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taken on standard canon g10 on natural light... by Tim Ho
by: Tim Ho
taken on standard canon g10 on natural light...
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Malaysia
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Lots of turtles off of Jupiter Florida this time of year. by Patrick Smith
Lots of turtles off of Jupiter Florida this time of year.
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date posted posted: Monday, July 12, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic United States
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Who's a pretty boy then ? TAR Park Kota Kinabalu Sabah, N... by Richard Swann
Who's a pretty boy then ? TAR Park Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Nikon D2x 24mm
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date posted posted: Monday, July 12, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Friendly Gray Angel wanting to play by Steven Daniel
Friendly Gray Angel wanting to play
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Belize
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green turtle by Sven Ter Mul
green turtle
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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I`m watching you ! by Juan Cardona
I`m watching you !
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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