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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
grouper by John Harrison
grouper
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Swimming Seahorse, Under the Sun. Taken in Redang with Ca... by Joe Teo
by: Joe Teo
Swimming Seahorse, Under the Sun. Taken in Redang with Canon Ixus750.
60 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Malaysia
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Watching under the surface by Giuseppe Piccioli
Watching under the surface
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Italy
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Smallscale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopis oxycephala) Panoram... by Marko Perisic
Smallscale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopis oxycephala) Panorama Reef.
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Watching the neighbour. Canon G10 with internal flash. by Helena Encarnação
Watching the neighbour.
Canon G10 with internal flash.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Portugal
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OCTOPUS ON A NIGHT DIVE by Joel Sarver
OCTOPUS ON A NIGHT DIVE
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Divespot Shaab Rumi/Sudan; Precontinent II, Cousteau-hous... by Frank Schneider
Divespot Shaab Rumi/Sudan; Precontinent II, Cousteau-house from 1963. Nikon D2Xs, Nikon Zoom AF 12 - 24 mm; 2 flashes: Seacam Seaflash 150 TTL, Seacam flash Mini 100. Model: Karin.
Precontinent II is one of my absolute topspots worldwide!
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This is how you shoot models. It's the top people's vote for the month too. The people have good taste!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Sudan
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what ls left of the wheel house inchscape 2 by Simon Gardener
what ls left of the wheel house inchscape 2
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean United Arab Emirates
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I took this pic in Maui with a G-9 by Scott Johnson
I took this pic in Maui with a G-9
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 6, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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vase spong and friends by Roger Webb
vase spong and friends
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 6, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Dinner by Sergiy Glushchenko
Dinner
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Three Sisters dive site at Damaniyat Islands. My long suf... by Mike Dickson
Three Sisters dive site at Damaniyat Islands. My long suffering trainee Divemaster is in the background 8o)
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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Haunting and gloomy this photo was taken at Anilao, Batan... by Jon Aguirre
Haunting and gloomy this photo was taken at Anilao, Batangas.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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School of Batfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Ca... by Ross Gudgeon
School of Batfish. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Canon 50D & Tokina 10-17
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Australia
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Cuttlefish taken at Fahal Island, Muscat, Oman by Mike Dickson
Cuttlefish taken at Fahal Island, Muscat, Oman
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Oman
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Trunk Fish by John Harrison
Trunk Fish
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, June 29, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Color and texture.... by Roger Webb
Color and texture....
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 27, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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This is one of my favourite shots to date... We were havi... by Thomas Ozanne
This is one of my favourite shots to date... We were having a show put on for us by 2 big Mantas and this opportunity presented itself... I couldn't believe how epic this Manta appeared once I reviewed the shot...
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Summer Water. Some wide-angle close up work on new-growth... by Douglas Klug
Summer Water. Some wide-angle close up work on new-growth kelp. Shot with a Canon digitla Rebel and 10-22mm zoom in Ikelite Housing. Natural Light.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Crab by John Harrison
Crab
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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19 " STAR ! by Andres Larraz
19 " STAR !
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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The Giant 6 meters Napoleon Wrasse :-) by Adolfo Maciocco
The Giant 6 meters Napoleon Wrasse :-)
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Giant Moray. by Dray Van Beeck
Giant Moray.
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 26, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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MANATEE Up close. by Andres Larraz
MANATEE Up close.
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Lobster in the Spotlight by Barbara Schilling
Lobster in the Spotlight
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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Anthias and red Sponge with diver in background and sun i... by Alberto Romeo
Anthias and red Sponge with diver in background and sun in backlight. Nikonos 15mm+ Ikelite strobe
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Jordan
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One of many wonderful wall dives in the Banda Sea aboard ... by Larry Polster
One of many wonderful wall dives in the Banda Sea aboard the Adventurer II. D300, Tokina 10-17mm
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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