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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
two lions
big head
Scorpion Fish
Jelly Fish
Socotra Cormorant
Socotra Cormorant
A Blue spotted Cornetfish - Fistularia commersonii blazing like a comet through the night sky
Physalia
Blue Carpet Anemone
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Flag Cabrilla resting on a rock in Los Islotes, Baja California Sur
"Puppy Eyes"
A young Sea Lion checking out my camera during a dive in Los Islotes, La Paz, BCS
Exploring Lion: A lion fish on the edge of a wreck with a diver in the background perfectly aligned on the rules of third with the boats chimney.
day of judgement
Close focus wide angle stingray with bar jack.
Nomad Jellyfish - Rhopilema nomadica
Lumpfish
Green turtle in Moorea
A Batfish has its gills cleaned
The Collector
Basket stars are Echinoderms (hedgehog type of skin) and are characterised by radial symmetry, ten arms radiating from a central body. They use these outstretched arms like a basket to catch drifting food particles
A red Frogfish
A lionfish chases glassfish
Lost in the labyrinth of my mind
A bearded scorpionfish looks straight into my lens.
2 lionfishes were chasing glassfishes on the wreck of the Salem Express. When I saw they lined up against the sun, I took the photo.
School of bass in a boat wreck
The pufferfish looks out of its cave, thank God I had my camera handy
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