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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 Whip by Henley Spiers
Red Whip
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 29, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Rascasse volantes ! by Claude Lespagne
Rascasse volantes !
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 27, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Taken using fish eye lens , full power strobes pointing u... by Niall Deiraniya
Taken using fish eye lens , full power strobes pointing upwards to surface , shutter speed 1/2000th
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9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 27, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Tortue imbriquée Hurghada ! by Claude Lespagne
Tortue imbriquée Hurghada !
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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frogfish with a fisheye lens. by Arun Madisetti
frogfish with a fisheye lens.
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Protecting the female by Eduard Bello
Protecting the female
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 23, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Belgium
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Wobbegong...awesome word. by Joerg Blessing
Wobbegong...awesome word.
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10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, April 21, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Maldives
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The colourful Lily Pads of Cenote Carwash, Mexico by Nick Polanszky
The colourful Lily Pads of Cenote Carwash, Mexico
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 20, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Mexico
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Fish Portrait by Iyad Suleyman
Fish Portrait
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18 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Barracuda ! by Claude Lespagne
Barracuda !
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Final RoundThrough to 2018 awards final round judging
24 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Porcupinefish in Cozumel by Norm Vexler
Porcupinefish in Cozumel
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Scrawled Filefish in Cozumel by Norm Vexler
Scrawled Filefish in Cozumel
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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dancing in the storm by Claudia Weber-Gebert
dancing in the storm
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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Minos wreck from 1939 in the Baltic sea, The picture is t... by Rene B. Andersen
Minos wreck from 1939 in the Baltic sea, The picture is taken inside the wreck where some of the crew went down with the ship.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Baltic Sea Denmark
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In the eye of a manta by Pieter Firlefyn
In the eye of a manta
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date posted posted: Monday, April 9, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Not a sea, but a hudge dive tank. Todi by Eduard Bello
Not a sea, but a hudge dive tank. Todi
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 8, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Belgium
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Feather star by Athanassios Lazarides
Feather star
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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A beautiful Queen Angelfish in Cozumel. by Norm Vexler
A beautiful Queen Angelfish in Cozumel.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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A Whitespotted Filefish in the Orange Phase photographed ... by Norm Vexler
A Whitespotted Filefish in the Orange Phase photographed in Cozumel, Mexico.
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date posted posted: Friday, April 6, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Jungle meets Reef- The Passage by Joerg Blessing
Jungle meets Reef- The Passage
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 1, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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The Cleaning Station by Peet J Van Eeden
The Cleaning Station
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, March 30, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Octopus posing on a night dive under the jetty, Baa Atoll by Joerg Blessing
Octopus posing on a night dive under the jetty, Baa Atoll
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13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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coral composition by Claudia Nicolow
coral composition
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Aruba
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In a sandy water the live is quet. Temperature 4C. So the... by Eduard Bello
In a sandy water the live is quet. Temperature 4C. So the lonely plants struckle to stay alive.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Landlocked Seas/Lakes Netherlands
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Just hanging out with a Grouper at the Oreo verde wreck! by Sayde Miura
Just hanging out with a Grouper at the Oreo verde wreck!
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 25, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Remora takes a ride on the manta by Pieter Firlefyn
Remora takes a ride on the manta
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Reef meets Jungle at "The Passage", Raja Ampat by Joerg Blessing
Reef meets Jungle at "The Passage", Raja Ampat
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 15, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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