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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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Thalassoma pavo. by Ferdinando Meli
Thalassoma pavo.
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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threestripe rockfish & hidden young octopus by Boris Pamikov
threestripe rockfish & hidden young octopus
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date posted posted: Friday, September 23, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Reef shark at the Exhuma Islands by Larry Polster
Reef shark at the Exhuma Islands
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Bahamas
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Triton & Diver by Rico Besserdich
Triton & Diver
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Sunflower Star with Blackeye Goby by J. Daniel Horovatin
Sunflower Star with Blackeye Goby
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date posted posted: Monday, September 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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Levitation / Giant octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Levitation
/ Giant octopus Dofleini
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2011
3rd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2011 awards final round judging

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Editor's Comment
That's a big one. Bear in mind though that wide angle lenses exaggerate perspective - so always shoot the critter in front of the diver
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date posted posted: Monday, September 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Working on my lighting technique to eliminate backscatter... by J. Daniel Horovatin
Working on my lighting technique to eliminate backscatter -- Moon Jellyfish swimming. More work needed in getting the strobes right.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Canada
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Taken with 10,5 mm with 2 Sea&Sea YS 110 strobe @ Antalya... by Alp Baranok
Taken with 10,5 mm with 2 Sea&Sea YS 110 strobe @ Antalya / Kaş while diving with Rico Besserdich.
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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UW photographer v/s ancient amphora ;-) B/W shot with nat... by Rico Besserdich
UW photographer v/s ancient amphora ;-) B/W shot with natural light only ( no strobe )
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, September 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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A couple for life by Cipriano (ripli) Gonzalez
A couple for life
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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silent inhabitants of stone ruins of Petrova island II /... by Boris Pamikov
silent inhabitants of stone ruins of Petrova island II
/ three-stripe rock-fishes
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date posted posted: Thursday, September 15, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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"Sai Kung wonders" A Small clown fish doing its thing. ... by Jamie Coote
"Sai Kung wonders"
A Small clown fish doing its thing.
Who said Hong Kong has nothing to see but old fridges?
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Asian Sea Hong Kong
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Cerianhus with gorgonian bicolors. Taken with Nikon P7000... by Francesco Pacienza
Cerianhus with gorgonian bicolors. Taken with Nikon P7000 in Easysnap Housing by Easydive. With 12mm fish-eye dome, two strobes Nikonos SB-105 with optical fiber. Manual mode settings.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Le Penseur / Thinker / Giant Octopus Dofleini by Boris Pamikov
Le Penseur / Thinker
/ Giant Octopus Dofleini
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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sataya dolphin reef by Ladislav Nogacek
sataya dolphin reef
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date posted posted: Monday, September 12, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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smiley :) / comb jelly, sea gooseberry, sea walnut, or V... by Boris Pamikov
smiley smile
/ comb jelly, sea gooseberry, sea walnut, or Venus's girdles
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Plates-O-Plenty by Tony Cherbas
Plates-O-Plenty
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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Blenny NItes... a blenny watches the nightime traffic by Suzan Meldonian
Blenny NItes... a blenny watches the nightime traffic
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 10, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Frog or sponge? Nikon D200, 10,5mm, two strobo Bohol. A... by Marchione Giacomo
Frog or sponge?
Nikon D200, 10,5mm, two strobo
Bohol. Ananyana
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date posted posted: Friday, September 9, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Looking Down the Barrel of a Sponge by Tony Cherbas
Looking Down the Barrel of a Sponge
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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from light into shadow... / Aurelia aurita by Boris Pamikov
from light into shadow...
/ Aurelia aurita
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Tree trunks and sunbeams, Taj Maha Cenote, Mexico. by Nick Blake
Tree trunks and sunbeams, Taj Maha Cenote, Mexico.
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date posted posted: Monday, September 5, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mexico
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edible crab_Heinrich wreck_Manche by Mathieu Foulquié
edible crab_Heinrich wreck_Manche
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date posted posted: Monday, September 5, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celtic Sea France
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Purple Fountain by Tony Cherbas
Purple Fountain
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date posted posted: Monday, September 5, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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"Is there anyone alive? I'm hungry" / octopus at graveya... by Boris Pamikov
"Is there anyone alive? I'm hungry"
/ octopus at graveyard of bivalves
21 Votes
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date posted location: Sea of Japan Russia
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Fusiliers Recede into Blue by Tony Cherbas
Fusiliers Recede into Blue
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 4, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Celebes Sea Indonesia
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Fans of Orange by Tony Cherbas
Fans of Orange
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31 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, September 3, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Molucca Sea Indonesia
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