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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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Nice by Marc Van Den Broeck
Nice
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 13, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Posing by Beate Seiler
Posing
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 13, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Eagle Rey by Plamena Mileva
Eagle Rey
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2017
Runner Up Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2017 awards final round judging

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Great colors and composition, not to forget the perfect pose of the model
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Spain
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pinhome by Marc Van Den Broeck
pinhome
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Lady carrying a scorpion fish (: by Taner Atilgan
Lady carrying a scorpion fish (:
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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seeme by Marc Van Den Broeck
seeme
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Leafy Sea Dragon by Mark Gray
Leafy Sea Dragon
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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colored Scorpio by Marc Van Den Broeck
colored Scorpio
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Witch Doctor — Barney’s Reef, Fathers Reef, Papua New Gu... by Billy Watson
Witch Doctor — Barney’s Reef, Fathers Reef, Papua New Guinea
A barrel sponge festooned with dozens of colorful crinoids. Taking a hard upward angle allowed me to capture a small sliver of the reefs fish population.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 9, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bismarck Sea Papua New Guinea
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ear fish by Marc Van Den Broeck
ear fish
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 9, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Pink coral, Banda sea, Indonesia. by Filip Staes
Pink coral, Banda sea, Indonesia.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 8, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Bottlenose dolphin When we search this (109826) ID numbe... by Cumhur Gedikoglu
Bottlenose dolphin
When we search this (109826) ID number that we learn it's name was TOM.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 8, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Dharavandhoo. Acquario Nikon D800E , 16mm , two sea and ... by Marchione Giacomo
Dharavandhoo. Acquario
Nikon D800E , 16mm , two sea and sea 120Ys
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 8, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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The strange friends .Maldives . Dharavandhoo Nikon D800... by Marchione Giacomo
The strange friends
.Maldives . Dharavandhoo
Nikon D800E , 17-35mm , two strobo
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 7, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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a playful cape fur seal by Romain Barats
a playful cape fur seal
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Turtle in Palancar, Cozumel México by Alejandro Topete
Turtle in Palancar, Cozumel México
35 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 2, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Hello there by Twila Grower
Hello there
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 30, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Arborek, Raja Ampat. by Filip Staes
Arborek, Raja Ampat.
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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Wonderful colors and composition
50 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 30, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Indonesia
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Anemon with clownfishes by Pieter Firlefyn
Anemon with clownfishes
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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in the seagrss meadows...... by Claudia Weber-Gebert
in the seagrss meadows......
26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Anemon and Fish by Mehmet Öztabak
Anemon and Fish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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batfish: platax orbicularis juveniles by Pieter Firlefyn
batfish: platax orbicularis juveniles
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 25, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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There's room for one more!!! by Twila Grower
There's room for one more!!!
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, September 25, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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batfish: platax orbicularis juveniles by Pieter Firlefyn
batfish: platax orbicularis juveniles
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Star in the sky Nikon D800e , 16mm, two strobo Maldives... by Marchione Giacomo
Star in the sky
Nikon D800e , 16mm, two strobo
Maldives. Male Nord
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 24, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Ray city by Twila Grower
Ray city
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Maldives
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Blue by Twila Grower
Blue
shortlistedShortlisted!
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 22, 2017
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Maldives
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