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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

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Elkhorn Coral - Roatan, Honduras by Rickey Ferand
Elkhorn Coral - Roatan, Honduras
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date posted posted: Friday, July 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Electric Ray on night dive by Larry Polster
Electric Ray on night dive
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, July 27, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Dominica
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Fire Underwater: Backlit + Frontlit Crinoids by Tony Cherbas
Fire Underwater: Backlit + Frontlit Crinoids
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19 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 26, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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"He Can't See Us If We Don't Move" - market squid (Loligo... by Terry Goss
"He Can't See Us If We Don't Move" - market squid (Loligo opalescens) at the Monterey Breakwater. Nikon D300 in Aquatica, Nikkor 12-24mm, Sea & Sea YS90 strobes.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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"Last Dance" - mating market squid (Loligo opalescens), r... by Terry Goss
"Last Dance" - mating market squid (Loligo opalescens), right in front of the kids!, right before they die. Breakwater, Monterey, CA; Nikon D300 in Aquatica, Nikkor 12-24mm, Sea & Sea YS90 strobes.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Jellyfish in Pemuteran, Bali by Alberto Gallucci
Jellyfish in Pemuteran, Bali
33 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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groupper by Lütfi Tanrıöver
groupper
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Avsa Island - Marmara - Lobster by Baris Civelek
Avsa Island - Marmara - Lobster
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Marmara Turkey
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"Little Stretch" - a small (baby?) Octopus vulgaris, at t... by Terry Goss
"Little Stretch" - a small (baby?) Octopus vulgaris, at the Monterey Breakwater, found after a long day with twelve Open Water students in bad vis.... Nikon D300 in Aquatica, Nikkor 12-24mm, Sea & Sea YS90 strobes.
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date posted posted: Monday, July 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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d700, 15mm FE by Gleb Tolstov
d700, 15mm FE
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Spotted moray on the hunt by Larry Polster
Spotted moray on the hunt
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Dominica
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Octopus trying to take my camera by Giroudon Jean-Pierre
Octopus trying to take my camera
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Great action !
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date posted posted: Monday, July 23, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Spain
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Between Bali and Menjangan, on the sandy ground, uncounte... by Olivier Notz
Between Bali and Menjangan, on the sandy ground, uncounted eels are standing in the current. I made this pictures diving by with 100 macro lense, without strobe.
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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A school of Horse-Eyed Jacks hanging around at Devil's Gr... by Ellen Cuylaerts
A school of Horse-Eyed Jacks hanging around at Devil's Grotto/Eden Rock.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Moray helping us clean out the lionfish in the Caribbean by Larry Polster
Moray helping us clean out the lionfish in the Caribbean
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Dominica
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oblo by Salvatore Ianniello
oblo
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Nudibranch on the wreck, taken with Tokina 10-17mm, x1.4... by Iyad Suleyman
Nudibranch on the wreck,
taken with Tokina 10-17mm, x1.4 teleconvert.
in Fisheye Macro Port
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Mediterranean triggerfish (balistes carolinensis) by Alberto Gallucci
Mediterranean triggerfish (balistes carolinensis)
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35 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 16, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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Better to go over than under.... :) Giant Sheep Crab han... by Matthew Fischbach
Better to go over than under.... smile Giant Sheep Crab hanging around inside a wreck...
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, July 15, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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sponges under boat by Leena Roy
sponges under boat
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Cerianthus by Pietro Cremone
Cerianthus
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 12, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Baby turtle release! A baby loggerhead turtle (Caretta ca... by Terry Goss
Baby turtle release! A baby loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), just outside of Nassau (I think...). Nikon D300 in Aquatica, Nikkor 12-24mm, Sea & Sea YS90 strobes.
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32 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic Bahamas
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A fierce yet patient garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) - t... by Terry Goss
A fierce yet patient garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) - the California State Fish - off the coast of Santa Rosa Island, CA. Nikon D300 in Aquatica, Nikkor 12-24mm, Sea & Sea YS90 strobes.
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Sunrise on Anemone Mountain ;) by Tony Cherbas
Sunrise on Anemone Mountain wink
25 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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green moray by Christopher Lynch
green moray
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Scorpionfish by Pietro Cremone
Scorpionfish
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Moray on the wreck RSB1 by Andres L-M_larraz
Moray on the wreck RSB1
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date posted posted: Monday, July 9, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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