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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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Pink Frog + Diver by Tony Cherbas
Pink Frog + Diver
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: South China Sea Philippines
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Black and White portrait of a Lion fish swimming above a ... by Christian Vizl
Black and White portrait of a Lion fish swimming above a pristine coral reef at Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Manta Ray night dive April 2012 - Kona, Hawaii by Rickey Ferand
Manta Ray night dive April 2012 - Kona, Hawaii
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date posted posted: Monday, May 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Get out of my face by Bernard Groenewald
Get out of my face
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Puffer fish ,Box Fish as it is known in Mauritius.Canon 7... by Linley Jean-Yves Bignoux
Puffer fish ,Box Fish as it is known in Mauritius.Canon 7D 60MM Tamron lens
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date posted posted: Monday, May 7, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mauritius
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...this afternoon...Saint-Raphaël... by Anthony Smith
...this afternoon...Saint-Raphaël...
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea France
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Giant grouper with Diver @ Naama bay by Adolfo Maciocco
Giant grouper with Diver @ Naama bay
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Pink Skunk Anemone Fish - Padang Bai Olympus XZ-1 by Andy Chan
Pink Skunk Anemone Fish - Padang Bai
Olympus XZ-1
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Queen Parrotfish at cleaning station by Steven Daniel
Queen Parrotfish at cleaning station
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Turks and Caicos islands
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Tubeworms by Francesco Pacienza
Tubeworms
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Jelly Fish Australia ,Port Phillip Bay Victoria Nikon by Linley Jean-Yves Bignoux
Jelly Fish Australia ,Port Phillip Bay Victoria Nikon
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 6, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Great Australian Bight Australia
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Night dive off of Kona Hawaii. We saw 48 Manta Rays on t... by Steven Smeltzer
Night dive off of Kona Hawaii. We saw 48 Manta Rays on two dives and had 37 on the night dive, it was amazing...There were almost two many....
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Jellyfish in B&W by Francesco Pacienza
Jellyfish in B&W
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6 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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This photo was taken on my first wall dive in Sharm El Sh... by Bernard Groenewald
This photo was taken on my first wall dive in Sharm El Sheik.
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Isla lobos, La Paz by Charles Bernier
Isla lobos, La Paz
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Mexico
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Fantasea Reef - Kona, Hawaii by Rickey Ferand
Fantasea Reef - Kona, Hawaii
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date posted posted: Saturday, May 5, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Sun Burst - Chromodoris Annae by Andy Chan
Sun Burst - Chromodoris Annae
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Two squids in Djibouti sea. Carpe Rouge Spot. by Marc Grau
Two squids in Djibouti sea. Carpe Rouge Spot.
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date posted posted: Friday, May 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Djibouti
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Seafan with diver by Pietro Cremone
Seafan with diver
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, May 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Seafan with diver by Pietro Cremone
Seafan with diver
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date posted posted: Friday, May 4, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Clumpy nudibranch. Big Island, Hawaii. by Bill Arle
Clumpy nudibranch. Big Island, Hawaii.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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... by Sergiy Glushchenko
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10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Indopacific jellyfish in Pemuteran, Bali by Alberto Gallucci
Indopacific jellyfish in Pemuteran, Bali
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43 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Potato by Doris Vierkoetter
Potato
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46 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel Mozambique
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tokina 10/17 160 f/10 by Fabrice Leroy
tokina 10/17 160 f/10
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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"SAD MOMENTS" Today I've seen a very long fishing net fi... by Roland Bach
"SAD MOMENTS"
Today I've seen a very long fishing net fixed on the bottom. Representative of so many animals in the net I show you this poor scorpion fish. On this spot is fishing absolutely forbidden. Sorry, even those images must be documented.
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Editor's Comment
Not only that this is a good shot with superb exposure, it also wakes us all up and reminds us what we are diving and shooting for. A very clear message in your photo, Roland....and this makes it a well deserved winner-shot :-)
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Balearic Sea Spain
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At the bottom. by Sergey Lisitsyn
At the bottom.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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