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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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some fish by Andre Rhonnie
some fish
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Australia
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cuttle fish by Andre Rhonnie
cuttle fish
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Australia
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Happy snorkler, happy diver, happy Manta ? Photo shot on... by Christian Nielsen
Happy snorkler, happy diver, happy Manta ?
Photo shot on Manta Point, Nusa Penida
Olympus E330, 8mm Fisheye and 2 Ikelite DS 125 Flashes
NB: Snorkler in background on the left
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 23, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Common Lionfish over the Salem Express. Canon G9 and Ikel... by James Dawson
Common Lionfish over the Salem Express. Canon G9 and Ikelite strobe
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Prickly tube-sponge taken in Ras Mohammed. by Stephan Kerkhofs
Prickly tube-sponge taken in Ras Mohammed.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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weedy sea dragon by Andre Rhonnie
weedy sea dragon
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Australia
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weedy sea dragon by Andre Rhonnie
weedy sea dragon
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Australia
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Turtle and Spanish Hog Fish in Utila by Susan Beerman
Turtle and Spanish Hog Fish in Utila
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Two of a kind..... This image was taken in Cozumel by Steven Anderson
Two of a kind..... This image was taken in Cozumel
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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sweet chocolate ... by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
sweet chocolate click here
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Three of a kind, a diagonal - Jun Lao created a photo here
58 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Silent Scream by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
Silent Scream
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Coral Grouper getting cleaned by small Wrasse. Olympus E... by Christian Nielsen
Coral Grouper getting cleaned by small Wrasse.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, Ikelite DS125
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Parrotfish by Dray Van Beeck
Parrotfish
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Green female turtle taken in Na'ama Bay. by Stephan Kerkhofs
Green female turtle taken in Na'ama Bay.
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date posted posted: Friday, October 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Green Moray by Susan Beerman
Green Moray
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Photographing the Boha Snapper at Shark Yoland Reef by Julian Cohen
Photographing the Boha Snapper at Shark Yoland Reef
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a different CFWA composition Julian
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Near Garden by Sergiy Glushchenko
Near Garden
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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I just love how the blue stands out in this garden of sof... by Simon Gardener
I just love how the blue stands out in this garden of soft corals
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Oman
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shot with nikon D70s and 50mm macro by Simon Gardener
shot with nikon D70s and 50mm macro
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean United Arab Emirates
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The head of a tarp. by Parker Corey
The head of a tarp.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea United States
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Black Angel and Squirrel Fish taken off the coast of Cura... by Gordon Skiba
Black Angel and Squirrel Fish taken off the coast of Curacao in February 2008. Camera used was a Canon S50 with a Sea & Sea YS-110 Strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Jelly fish taken during safety stop by Simon Toomer
Jelly fish taken during safety stop
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8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: North Sea United Kingdom
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Underwater Bouquet at Komodo. These sea fans were about ... by Richard Witmer
Underwater Bouquet at Komodo. These sea fans were about 6 feet tall. G9/Ikelite DS160s/Olympus Wide Angle Lens.
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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Mooring rope. D3, 16mm. by Derek Haslam
Mooring rope. D3, 16mm.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sea Fan and Rainbow Runners at Komodo. G9/DS160s/Olympus ... by Richard Witmer
Sea Fan and Rainbow Runners at Komodo. G9/DS160s/Olympus Wide Angle Lens.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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huge... by Jun Lao
by: Jun Lao
huge...
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Shot of an anemone found off South Monastery Beach in Car... by Joe Platko
Shot of an anemone found off South Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. This was one of the better dives I've had there in awhile, with the vis around 40 ft. The shot was taken with a canon a570, single inon d-2000s strobe and inon fisheye lens
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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