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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

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Waiting for an anemone fish to stop long enough to pose i... by Malia Beggs
Waiting for an anemone fish to stop long enough to pose is quite a challenge. This Tomato Anemonefish stayed closely inside its host anemone, "Entacmaea quadricolor". I took this shot with a Canon A650IS and used its internal flash.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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Flight by Sergiy Glushchenko
Flight

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nice lead in line Sergiy
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Scalloped HammerHead while diving in Darwin's Arch, Galap... by Frankie Rivera
Scalloped HammerHead while diving in Darwin's Arch, Galapagos Islands.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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On the black sand of North-east Bali. by Anouk Houben
On the black sand of North-east Bali.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Explosion of colors, D70, Sigma 14mm, White wall, Taveuni... by Larry Polster
Explosion of colors, D70, Sigma 14mm, White wall, Taveuni, Fiji
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date posted posted: Friday, January 9, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Fiji
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"Oriental Sweetlips". This flashy fish has a little shad... by Malia Beggs
"Oriental Sweetlips". This flashy fish has a little shadow fish behind it. Canon A650IS, Similan Island #6, Thailand.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Beautiful orange elephant ear sponge with a diver by Barbara Schilling
Beautiful orange elephant ear sponge with a diver
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Martinique
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Sponges of Bohol, Philippines by Larry Polster
Sponges of Bohol, Philippines
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Mark with Sturgeon. D200, 10.5mm. by Derek Haslam
Mark with Sturgeon. D200, 10.5mm.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: United Kingdom
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Turtle by Carl Gennaro
Turtle
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Malaysia
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One of many in Little Cayman by Larry Polster
One of many in Little Cayman
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date posted posted: Monday, January 5, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Nassau Grouper-Canon 5D 17-40 mm by Richard Goluch
Nassau Grouper-Canon 5D 17-40 mm
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date posted posted: Monday, January 5, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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Cuttle Fish by Carl Gennaro
Cuttle Fish
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date posted posted: Monday, January 5, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Blackside Hawkfish-hilu piliko'a,Mala ramp,Lahaina,Maui,C... by Jozef Butala
Blackside Hawkfish-hilu piliko'a,Mala ramp,Lahaina,Maui,Canon SD750.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Stingray by Sergiy Glushchenko
Stingray
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 4, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Crynoids like sun beams... by Sara Valla
Crynoids like sun beams...
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date posted posted: Friday, January 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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"Feathers on a cloud", feather stars resting on cloud spo... by Peter Luckham
"Feathers on a cloud", feather stars resting on cloud sponge.
A night dive in Stuart Channel, near Chemainus BC. This is an area with plenty of feather stars , and a few cloud sponge. This is the first time I have seen them both togeather.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 1, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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Red Fish by Sergiy Glushchenko
Red Fish
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 1, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Bohol, Philippines by Larry Polster
Bohol, Philippines
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 1, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Vigilant Specter - The Lionfish has invaded the atlantic ... by John Martin Burck
Vigilant Specter - The Lionfish has invaded the atlantic waters of the caribbean in vast numbers, and are exploding in population tenfold, due to the lack of preditors. This lionfish was patrolling Jakes Hole, in the Exumas caye chain in the Bahamas
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (South) Canada
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Happy New Year! by Sergiy Glushchenko
Happy New Year!

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a good crop makes this shot. Well done Sergiy
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Cozumel-Recovery of the reef-Canon 5D 17-40 mm by Richard Goluch
Cozumel-Recovery of the reef-Canon 5D 17-40 mm
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Giant barracuda at USAT Liberty ship wreck. Canon Xti, 1... by Adriana Basques
Giant barracuda at USAT Liberty ship wreck.
Canon Xti, 10mm, 2 Ikelite 125 strobes.

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good composition. It's hard to get a diver not looking awkward
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 27, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Java Sea Indonesia
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Nemo 2, Bohol, Philippines, D300-Sigma 14mm by Larry Polster
Nemo 2, Bohol, Philippines, D300-Sigma 14mm
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date posted posted: Friday, December 26, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Green Turtle, Indian Bay, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and th... by Kay Wilson
Green Turtle, Indian Bay, St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sea and Sea DX1G / YS25 strobe
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date posted posted: Friday, December 26, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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The colours of Palau. Casio exilim. by Andrew Macleod
The colours of Palau. Casio exilim.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 25, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Palau
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Taken with Canon S70 (7 megapixil) and built in flash. by Bill Bird
Taken with Canon S70 (7 megapixil) and built in flash.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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