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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
crinoid shrimps on the featherstar with a diver on the wa... by Geoff Spiby
crinoid shrimps on the featherstar with a diver on the wall behind
Balicasag Island
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Fairy Basslet swimming over coral by Mark Reasor
Fairy Basslet swimming over coral
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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Nikon D80, 10,5mm fish eye, 2 flashes. Marsa Abu Dabbab. by Cristian Umili
Nikon D80, 10,5mm fish eye, 2 flashes.
Marsa Abu Dabbab.
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Blackside howkfish by Jozef Butala
Blackside howkfish
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Jelly in the sky by Stuart Ganz
Jelly in the sky
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Palau
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La Bym by Arun Madisetti
La Bym
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2010

Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Dominica
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Lucky to have caught this Lionfish away from the reef! by Stephan Kerkhofs
Lucky to have caught this Lionfish away from the reef!
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11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Big octopus and my wife Nice dive on the Palm Mar divesi... by Christian Nielsen
Big octopus and my wife
Nice dive on the Palm Mar divesite, Tenerife
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) Spain
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This image is of a baby Green Sea Turtle, which we releas... by Steven Anderson
This image is of a baby Green Sea Turtle, which we released off Grand Bahamas Island. There were 30 of them in total.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Photo taken with Swirl filter on objective. Nikon D60 in ... by Francesco Pacienza
Photo taken with Swirl filter on objective. Nikon D60 in Easydive housing with Nikkor 18-55VR. Two strobes: Nikon SB-105 and Sea&Sea YS300.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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octopus in your home I found this litle octopus in your n... by Ernesto Rodriguez
octopus in your home I found this litle octopus in your nice clear botle home at 80 feet of depht
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 1, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Flying Batfish Canon 40D by Sangut Santoso
Flying Batfish
Canon 40D
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, February 1, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indonesia
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This grouper would not leave me alone. During the entire... by Carol Cox
This grouper would not leave me alone. During the entire dive he stayed close by my face mask--cute, but it also kept me from taking a lot of photos on the dive.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 31, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Ionian Sea Cyprus
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This needlefish was attracted by my dome port! by Stephan Kerkhofs
This needlefish was attracted by my dome port!
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 31, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Hawksbill turtle feeding and an underwater photographer s... by Stephan Kerkhofs
Hawksbill turtle feeding and an underwater photographer silhouette taken in the saddle between Shark and Yolanda reef.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 31, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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I took this shot on Bari Reef in Bonaire. I was taking a ... by Shelley Zipper
I took this shot on Bari Reef in Bonaire. I was taking a px of a banded shrimp but when I viewed the px, I saw the eel right by the shrimp's claw.
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 30, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Fiabaset by Sergiy Glushchenko
Fiabaset
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 30, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Apo island reefscene by Geoff Spiby
Apo island reefscene
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25 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 29, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Hawksbill cruising the reef in Roatan. D300-Tokina 10-17mm by Larry Polster
Hawksbill cruising the reef in Roatan. D300-Tokina 10-17mm
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Honduras
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STAR. by Andres L-M_larraz
STAR.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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CUCUMBER> by Andres L-M_larraz
CUCUMBER>
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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A pair of these big boys hiding in the swim thrus at Blue... by Larry Polster
A pair of these big boys hiding in the swim thrus at Blue Channel, Roatan. Only one of them in this wide angle close focus shot. D300-Tokina 10-17mm
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Honduras
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While visiting Freeport Bahamas I was suprised to find se... by James Francis
While visiting Freeport Bahamas I was suprised to find several large lionfish on a shallow shore dive near my hotel
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date posted posted: Monday, January 25, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Bahamas
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A scorpionfish.... by Lütfi Tanrıöver
A scorpionfish....
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 25, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Andaman Sea Thailand
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Clown and anemone by Sergiy Glushchenko
Clown and anemone
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 25, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Sponge. Turneffe atoll, Belize. Canon Ixus 980, WA20 Ikel... by Bea & Stef Primatesta
Sponge. Turneffe atoll, Belize. Canon Ixus 980, WA20 Ikelite & Inon D2000.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 24, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Belize
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Red Coral by Julian Cohen
Red Coral
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 24, 2010
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Coral Sea Papua New Guinea
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