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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
Box fish by Andreas Ochsenbein
Box fish
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Yellow arrow by Alberto Gallucci
Yellow arrow
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Bats Above, Scorpions Below by Tony Cherbas
Bats Above, Scorpions Below
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date posted posted: Monday, April 18, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Just a pineapple :D they are so skittish I attempted this... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Just a pineapple :D they are so skittish I attempted this shot many time with a wideangle. Tokina 10-17 @17
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 14, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Still Life by Steven Miller
Still Life
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Well composed shot! Love the diver silhouette!
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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John Dory by night by Marco Gargiulo
John Dory by night
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date posted posted: Monday, April 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Unicornfish by Marco Gargiulo
Unicornfish
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 11, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Sparkle city. Giant Clam at Table Coral city in Wakatobi.... by Steven Miller
Sparkle city. Giant Clam at Table Coral city in Wakatobi. It's rare for them to be so nicely positioned for shooting up from very close- very happy to find this one opened up like this
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18 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 8, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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Eriphia reloaded by Mathieu Foulquié
Eriphia reloaded
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2016
3rd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging

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Stunning angle and lighting! Very dramatic!
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Beautiful Jellyfish by Kerim Sabuncuoglu
Beautiful Jellyfish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Palau
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Manta Ray from darkness. by Daisuke Kurashima
Manta Ray from darkness.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Colored up Croc no crop by Steven Miller
Colored up Croc no crop
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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Stonefish Mauritius (Synanceia verrucosa)(,this one was q... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Stonefish Mauritius (Synanceia verrucosa)(,this one was quite large around 30cm this from the Scorpian fish family
Jebbedah shipwreck bottom base,North West coast
Jeann-Yves Bignoux Mauritius,Canon 7d Ikelite housing
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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I shoot this picture in Hayama,Kanagawa,Japan. In the wi... by Daisuke Kurashima
I shoot this picture in Hayama,Kanagawa,Japan.
In the winter , we are growing up seaweed bathed in the light of the sun .
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date posted posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Asian Sea Japan
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Scary Titan Trigerfish by Pepe Suarez
Scary Titan Trigerfish
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date posted posted: Monday, April 4, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Thailand
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Esponja by Gonçalo Gomes
Esponja
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date posted posted: Friday, April 1, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Portugal
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Eeel......under a car trye!! Pointe Aux Piments,Republic ... by Jean-Yves Bignoux
Eeel......under a car trye!! Pointe Aux Piments,Republic of Mauritius
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 31, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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Sunburst Over A California Reef. The clear winter water a... by Douglas Klug
Sunburst Over A California Reef. The clear winter water and bright sun at Anacapa Island in the Channel Islands National Park. Shot with a Canon T4i and 10-22mm in an Ikelite housing with dual DS51 strobes.
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 27, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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8mm no crop. Flathead Crocodilefish color up when they la... by Steven Miller
8mm no crop. Flathead Crocodilefish color up when they lay on plants and corals, on sand and rock they go to white and black. Finding one perched up high was a lucky treat. 5D Mark2 in Ikelite housing
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 27, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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moray and coral by Les Baptiste
moray and coral
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 26, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Cape Verde
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Big nudi @Black Rock by Pepe Suarez
Big nudi @Black Rock
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 26, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Myanmar (Burma)
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The Final Frontier Wreck of the Doc Poulson, growth forw... by Patricia Sinclair
The Final Frontier
Wreck of the Doc Poulson, growth forward of the wheel house.
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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The flight of a turtle by Abimael Márquez
The flight of a turtle
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date posted posted: Monday, March 21, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Sun Beams. Kauai, HI by Tony Cherbas
Sun Beams. Kauai, HI
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2016

Final RoundThrough to 2016 awards final round judging
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 20, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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stone fish portrait by Cat Briggs
stone fish portrait
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 19, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Octopus hunting in a metal treasure chest. Canon g12, one... by Dragos Dumitrescu
Octopus hunting in a metal treasure chest. Canon g12, one inon s2000
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, March 19, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Visayan Sea Philippines
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A Moray Eel with a black shrimp passenger:) by Tracey Harris
A Moray Eel with a black shrimp passenger:)
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date posted posted: Friday, March 18, 2016
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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