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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
2001 Largo Grouper
Micronesia YAP - COMPOSING > Manta righthandside Nik.5/20mm
Large green turtle swimming in Borneo waters - Nikon F16 fisheye
Taken at Samadai/Dolphin House reef, Red Sea. Natural light at noon. Approx. at 6 meters depth.
Provo. Gray angel fish. Sea&Sea Motom.II. Sub 50 strobe
Flipper - just beautifully playing around in the Sinai waters
Butterfly Fish photographed on the house reef at Velassura Island in the Maldives whilst snorkelling - Fuji underwater disposable (no flash)
Giant Manta off Vadhoo Island in the Maldives - Photographed with a Fuji disposable underwater camera whilst snorkelling
Manta off Vadhoo Island in the Maldives - Fujifilm underwater disposable - Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 800
Sea-plane and diver. San Salvador, Bahamas. Nikon CP 5000, natural light.
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2003
splendid school of jacks swimming on surface in Sipadan Malaysia shot with 16 mm fisheye
seamount, F90X Housing, 18x35Nikon lens
dramatic and moody...
Light of Hope. Sangehi Islands Northern Sulawesi
Kelp forest of Catalina Island
Soft coral, Gulf of Patras Nikonos V
Shark Cruises the Shallows off Moorea; Nexus housed N90S
2003 Floating Nymphea--taken at Beaver Bay in Raquette Lake in New York State. It was taken with a SONY DSC-1 with an underwater housing.
Gotta love these creatures!
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2003

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Editor's Comment
As an ex-portrait photographer I have to admit most underwater portraits are boring! All that gear hides personality. Here is a great advert for underwater photography and a shot these boys will have hanging on the wall for life.
Exiting a cenote in Quinta Roo Mexico
Aquatica housing F4 20mm available light
Blue water hunter, breathing up for a 25m breath hold in the mozambique channel.
Dahab Eel Garden
Dahab Sinai
Believe these to be Trevallies? Taken with my point & shoot Reefmaster camera just off the side of the Thistlegorm in the Red Sea.
Ft Lauderdale, FL. Photo taken with a CASIO digital camera in a water tight case.
Lionfish, Kadavu - Fiji.
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