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Underwater Photo Contest | Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)

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shots taken using ambient light i.e. unlit by flash or continuous lighting like HID but filters on the lens are allowed if declared
I love snorkelling close to the reef where, without dive gear, it's possible to be really manoeuverable to get great natural light shots that show the array of colours. Picture is a Clown Surgeonfish (Acanthurus lineatus).
Bow of Fujikawa Maru.
Taken in Truk lagoon on last day of hol with canon ixus 980 and fisheye lens. A lot of people think that this is taken with strobes...but it's not. Just manual white balance.
Palancar Reef Cozumel, Mexico
Whip Coral curling into clear open water, Nikonos V 28mm lense
Although very common, there is a distinct beauty to the Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) that is worthy of observation.
"The Hard Stuff" - in more ways than one!!
risking to become boring, YET jelly fish is almost an obsession!!!
Ctenophora
Trunkfish
Sun on the reef
jelly is the WORD!!!
Peacock Flounder gliding around the shallows.
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Blue Planet
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great concept Aleksandr - please say how it was done guys e.g. a circular fisheye/snell's window/manipluated?
Abrolhos Islands
Barracudas at the Blue Corner
Which way did he go?
Rush Hour
april 3rd was indeed a jelly day around Bida Nok & Bida Nai (Phi Phi Island, Thailand)
A porcupine fish on the Marsa Abu Dabbab field of sea grass; Canon 720is, red filter & a bit of cropping
jelly, jelly, JELLY!!!!
Late afternoon light - Fesdu house reef, Maldives. Canon G9 / Ikelite housing & wide angle lens.
Wreck of Jura in Lake of Constance, Switzerland.
This wooden decked passenger paddle steamer collided in dense fog with the Swiss ship "Stadt Zürich" and sank minutes later near Bottighofen on the Swiss side of the Lake Constance on 12 February 1864
Taken in Hawaii of a floating leaf on the surface - I free dove down and on my way up took this image which shows the underwater shot, reflections of the leaf floating on the water and the sky..
Dragon au naturale.
just everywhere today!!!
Flooded Amber quarry
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