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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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"Ol' Blue Eyes!" by Claudette Muller
"Ol' Blue Eyes!"
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Let's do lunch! Enjoy! by Rick Tegeler
Let's do lunch! Enjoy!
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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"Here's looking at you!" Followed this guy all over the c... by Claudette Muller
"Here's looking at you!" Followed this guy all over the coral reef. Must have taken 25 photos while following him. Lots of great closeups!
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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"You want a piece of ME?!!". Lionfish in Belize - NOT ind... by Claudette Muller
"You want a piece of ME?!!". Lionfish in Belize - NOT indigenous. they are working to erradicate these....Taken down around 90 feet. This one was too deep for the guides to go back and catch to remove from the reef.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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The turtle murmured "Would you kindly swim aside and let ... by Larissa Roorda
The turtle murmured "Would you kindly swim aside and let me pass?", and I did.
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Here's "Hairy"! - A cute Orangetan crab! Found this hairy... by Claudette Muller
Here's "Hairy"! - A cute Orangetan crab! Found this hairy little guy "hanging" around in a doorway of a wreck in Truk Lagoon. Taken with one YS-02 strobe and focus light with Canon 990 IS with wideangle wetlens.
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Micronesia
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"Just Hangin'" - Decorator Crab holding on! Taken with m... by Claudette Muller
"Just Hangin'" - Decorator Crab holding on!
Taken with my Canon 990IS with focus light and camera flash (my strobe flooded on first dive). This was a cute little guy!
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Stallion in a friendly dive during a first dive of a Open... by Carlos Pérez
Stallion in a friendly dive during a first dive of a Open water student.this sea horse gives a great race, so many diferents senarios for photo shoot him.Take with a Olympus PEN Dual Strobes 14-42mm
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Annemon and diver by Yoav Lavi
Annemon and diver
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date posted posted: Monday, November 21, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Brave heart, Lion fish... by Ahmet Yay
Brave heart, Lion fish...
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 20, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cuba
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Napoleon by Girts Kravalis
Napoleon
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Loved the color combination of this tiny basslet inside a... by Claudette Muller
Loved the color combination of this tiny basslet inside a tube sponge in Belize. Used Canon PowerShot 990 IS flash and focus light since my strobe flooded on my first dive.
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date posted posted: Friday, November 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Green turtle swimming just below the surface on a rainy day. by Chris Mason-Parker
Green turtle swimming just below the surface on a rainy day.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Seychelles
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Taken on the Nippo Maru, one of Truk Lagoon's many wrecks... by Claudette Muller
Taken on the Nippo Maru, one of Truk Lagoon's many wrecks. About 120 feet. Crinoid on a tube sponge. Used Canon PS 990 IS with Inon focus light & YS-02 strobe.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Micronesia
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pufferfish..! by Helmy Hashim
pufferfish..!
41 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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soeurs jumelles... by André Bruchez
soeurs jumelles...
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Seychelles
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The pink coral and the hawkfish by Svetoslav Dimitrov
The pink coral and the hawkfish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Shy tiny lionfish by Alex Varani
Shy tiny lionfish
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Pray to the Lord by Frank Michels
Pray to the Lord
shortlistedShortlisted!
36 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Hypselodoris picta. Taken with Nikon Coolpix P7000 in Eas... by Francesco Pacienza
Hypselodoris picta. Taken with Nikon Coolpix P7000 in Easysnap housing by Easydive, with Fish-Eye dome. Two strobes, Nikonos SB-105 with fiber cable connector. Manual settings.
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Soft-on-Hard Corals by Vincent Hong
Soft-on-Hard Corals
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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"Underworld" - frilled anemone (Metridium senile) in the ... by Lill Haugen
"Underworld" - frilled anemone (Metridium senile) in the shallows in the Oslo fjord in Norway, towards the cold winter sky and naked trees on shore.
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 13, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Norwegian Sea Norway
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red eyes by Håvard Fagernes
red eyes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Asian Sea Indonesia
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CrossRoads. D300 + Inon Micro Fish Eye + 2x Inon Z240 + ... by Levent Albas
CrossRoads.
D300 + Inon Micro Fish Eye + 2x Inon Z240 + 2x Inon LE550W
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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reef in the shadow insatiable sponge :-( by Roman Vyroubal
reef in the shadow insatiable sponge :-(
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Croatia
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Razor Fish are unusual fish that are relatively common of... by Bryan Hart
Razor Fish are unusual fish that are relatively common off the No.1 Reef System in Durban...
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date posted posted: Friday, November 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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Cuttlefish eating a boxfish, Lembeh Strait. Taken with my... by Chris Mason-Parker
Cuttlefish eating a boxfish, Lembeh Strait. Taken with my Powershot, no strobe or add on lens.
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date posted posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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