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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
Humpback Snapper close focus by Sven Ter Mul
Humpback Snapper close focus
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Reefs&Rainforest by Tunc Yavuzdogan
Reefs&Rainforest
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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salt pier by Jean Francois Proulx
salt pier
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Non-stinging jellyfish taken while snorkling. I had a wet... by Erika Antoniazzo
Non-stinging jellyfish taken while snorkling. I had a wetsuit (I get cold real fast) but no weightbelt so had to keep kicking down real fast while taking the picture upside down, hard work smile took a few tries before I got the shot I wanted.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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wall dive, Red Sea by Geoff Spiby
wall dive, Red Sea
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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My son was on the pontoon and I was swimming past when th... by Richard Harris
My son was on the pontoon and I was swimming past when this lion fish swam between us.

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different. You don't need to be deep to get the shot - just observant
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Vanuatu
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Hawksbill I almost ran into by Dennis Jacobson
Hawksbill I almost ran into
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Puffer with Divers , Canon S70 with INON strobe Z240 by Beate Krebs
Puffer with Divers , Canon S70 with INON strobe Z240
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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This Manta swam right past my lens by Fatt Chuen Foo
This Manta swam right past my lens
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Face in the water by Justin Barker
Face in the water
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Cluster of Sponges, Grand Cayman (Aplysina Fistularis) by Melanie Daneluk
Cluster of Sponges, Grand Cayman (Aplysina Fistularis)
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 7, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Christ of the Abyss statute on Dry Rocks Reef, Key Largo. by Theresa Tracy
Christ of the Abyss statute on Dry Rocks Reef, Key Largo.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 7, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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No, no, you can' see me!!!! Pulisan is full of surprises by Mona Dienhart
No, no, you can' see me!!!!
Pulisan is full of surprises
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 7, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Seahorse on Selce Underwater-ambient / Canon G9 by Melita Bubek
Seahorse on Selce Underwater-ambient / Canon G9
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, February 6, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Croatia
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Devil scorpionfish with a diver . by Rashad Elmasry
Devil scorpionfish with a diver .
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, February 6, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hello, how are you? by Reidar Opem
Hello, how are you?
46 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 5, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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Moray with diver, Komodo, Canon G9, Inon lenses and strobes by Fatt Chuen Foo
Moray with diver, Komodo, Canon G9, Inon lenses and strobes
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 5, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Lionfish by Beate Krebs
Lionfish
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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The Passage :) by Tunc Yavuzdogan
The Passage smile
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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French Angelfish with diver by Melanie Daneluk
French Angelfish with diver
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Peek-a-boo by Melanie Daneluk
Peek-a-boo
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Nice Under Carriage! Hawksbill enjoying jelly lunch by Karl Marchant
Nice Under Carriage! Hawksbill enjoying jelly lunch
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Crown of thorns sea star by Jozef Butala
Crown of thorns sea star
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Corals by Sergiy Glushchenko
Corals
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Emperor Angelfish by Beate Krebs
Emperor Angelfish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Cuttlefish. by Erika Antoniazzo
Cuttlefish.
shortlistedShortlisted!
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 1, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Octopus Eyes @ Culebra Island, Puerto Rico by Frankie Rivera
Octopus Eyes @ Culebra Island, Puerto Rico
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date posted posted: Sunday, February 1, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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