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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
Free diving the caves of Micronesia
Manta Shilouette taken with Canon 400D & Hugyfot
Torre Ovo (Puglia-Italy) - Petrified forest
platichthys flesus luscus swiming away
Turtle Launch !
hide and seek. A seal peaks out from over the rock reef at Anacapa Island, CA. Image captured with a Canon Digital Rebel and 10-22mm zoom in Ikelite Housing with Natural Light. Shot at f/4 and 1/50 seconds.
REFRACTION OF SUN RAYS ON THE SAND BOTTOM IN SHALLOW WATERS
Tube Sponges
Large green eel & a grouper - just hanging out. I think this must have been a cleaning station.
Fearless. A very large torpedo ray (Pacific Electric Ray) cruises without fear over the sand bottom at Anacapa Island. Taken with a Canon Digital Rebel in an Ikelite Housing with natural light. Shot at f/4 and 1/100 second.
Canon A620, natural light, freediving, colour corrected.
Corals - Subergorgia hicksoni
Canon A620, natural light, freediving, colour corrected.
Large green eel in Cozumel, Mexico. Shot with Canon Rebel XTi DSLR & Ikelite housing. No strobe - just white balance adjustment.
Blue Water Play. Sea Lions streaking through blue water off Anacapa Island. Image captured with Canon Digital Rebel and 10-22mm zoom in Ikelite Housing with natural light. Shot at f/11 and 1/160 second.
a close up of the coral and the airpbubbles, one of a series of shots
Southern stingray resting @ Hol Chan Reserve, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Ray swimming over coral (& a dark grouper - can you see it?) in Cozumel
Sixth remoras under!
(Manta birostris and some fish from Echeneidae family)
Sunflare. A glimpse of the sun through the kelp forest at Anacapa Island from 2001. Shot with a Nikonos V and 15mm lens in natural light at f/5.6 and 1/80 second.

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Editor's Comment
a lovely atmospheric shot
"Tangled Up In Blue" -A rope sponge bush on one of the most fascinating walls i have seen.
Corals
Master of the Forest. A Black Sea Bass (Giant Sea Bass) emerges from the kelp Forest at Anacapa Island. An old capture from 2004 using my Nikonos V and 15mm lens in natural light. Shot at f/4 and 1/60 seconds.
I love jelly fish!
Surfacing Seal. A harbor seal dances in the clear, shallow waters at Anacapa Island. An old image from 2002, shot with a Nikonos V and 15mm lens. Shot at f/4 and 1/125 seconds.
HOOPPSS………MY FISH EYE LENS IS OVERFLOWING WITH WATER !!!!
When I make this shot I feel that something was wrong........I look at my domeport and see water inside !
Camera kaput, but I belive that the shot have something of good .
Bigeye Jacks (Caranx sexfasciatus) at the USAT Liberty (Bali). Nikon D300, 10,5 mm
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