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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
Softcoral with sun backlight. NO P.S. by Alberto Romeo
Softcoral with sun backlight.
NO P.S.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Jordan
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Schooling bannerfish over hard coral; Nikon D2X, 10.5mm, ... by Aj Hiller
Schooling bannerfish over hard coral; Nikon D2X, 10.5mm, 2 Inon Z-240 strobes and Aquatica housing
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Koro Sea Fiji
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Soldierfish under reef canopy; shot with Nikon D2X 10.5mm... by Aj Hiller
Soldierfish under reef canopy; shot with Nikon D2X 10.5mm, 2 Inon Z-240 strobes and Aquatica Housing
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Koro Sea Fiji
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,,,,,,, by Miro Polensek
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Indonesia
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Looking. Hawksbill Turtle and my wife on Daedalus Reef. ... by Christian Nielsen
Looking.
Hawksbill Turtle and my wife on Daedalus Reef.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Happy divers and hopefully also the Manta Ray. Photo sho... by Christian Nielsen
Happy divers and hopefully also the Manta Ray.
Photo shot on Manta Point, Nusa Penida.
Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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CrashBoat can g9 with inon strobes my buddy playing with ... by Ernesto Rodriguez
CrashBoat can g9 with inon strobes my buddy playing with fishs
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Comin' at ya.......Stingray City 2007 DC500 by Tanya Goni
Comin' at ya.......Stingray City 2007 DC500
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Rare spotted burrfish trying to stay hidden. by Bj Arnold
Rare spotted burrfish trying to stay hidden.
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Virgin Islands U.S.
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Healthy coral reef, shot with Nikon D2X, 10.5mm fisheye, ... by Aj Hiller
Healthy coral reef, shot with Nikon D2X, 10.5mm fisheye, two Inon Z-240 strobes and Aquatica Housing
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date posted posted: Thursday, December 24, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Koro Sea Fiji
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A little leary..I found this little guy under a ledge jus... by Tanya Goni
A little leary..I found this little guy under a ledge just hanging out, then he decided to come out to have his picture taken but never took his eye off me....
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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This image of a Caribbean Reef Shark was taken last week ... by Steven Anderson
This image of a Caribbean Reef Shark was taken last week during a dive on the Shearwater at Ginormous Reef, near Grand Bahamas.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Bahamas
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Purple seafan and corals. 45-50'. diver in background by Tanya Goni
Purple seafan and corals. 45-50'. diver in background
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date posted posted: Monday, December 21, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Cayman islands
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approached shovel nose shark off Newport Beach Pier holdi... by Dale Kobetich
approached shovel nose shark off Newport Beach Pier holding camera down pointing up...pulled off a burst....free diving ...homemade housing/flash system.....it took a number of trys to pull this foto off....short suit,fins,hat,housing and flash...
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date posted posted: Monday, December 21, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: United States
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Sleeping in sponges. by Edson Acioli
Sleeping in sponges.
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf of Venezuela Netherlands Antilles
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Wall... Raja Ampat. by Sergiy Glushchenko
Wall... Raja Ampat.
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date posted posted: Saturday, December 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Colourfull Anemone and diver (my wife). Photo shot late ... by Christian Nielsen
Colourfull Anemone and diver (my wife).
Photo shot late afternoon with low sun.
Olympus E330, 8mm Fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 Strobes.
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, December 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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group of fish by Abdullah Samman
group of fish
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date posted posted: Friday, December 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Saudi Arabia
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Magnificent anemone taken at Ras Ghozlani. by Stephan Kerkhofs
Magnificent anemone taken at Ras Ghozlani.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 18, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Egypt
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Friendly Manta Ray on the cleaning station south of the b... by Christian Nielsen
Friendly Manta Ray on the cleaning station south of the beautiful island, Nusa Penida.
Olympus E330, 8mm Fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 Strobes.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Cozumel wall dive, a gray angelfish checking my camera out by Javier Sandoval
Cozumel wall dive, a gray angelfish checking my camera out
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2009

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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Raja Ampat. Clown fishe & anemon in the carrent by Sergiy Glushchenko
Raja Ampat. Clown fishe & anemon in the carrent
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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Tiger Grouper cleaned by a Spanish Hogfish. Canon G9/Ikel... by Hamid Rad
Tiger Grouper cleaned by a Spanish Hogfish. Canon G9/Ikelite housing & DS160 strobe.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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Nice Fan Coral and my wife as a model. Komodo has a grea... by Christian Nielsen
Nice Fan Coral and my wife as a model.
Komodo has a great variety of photo subjects. Wideangle or macro, its there.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, 2 Ikelite DS125 Strobes.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Oh yes the Queen of the Caribbean, this image was taken d... by Steven Anderson
Oh yes the Queen of the Caribbean, this image was taken during a dive trip to Cozumel in 2009.
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Underside of table coral by Pete Devereux
Underside of table coral
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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The she diver is watching a strange brain sponge by Alberto Romeo
The she diver is watching a strange brain sponge
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date posted posted: Monday, December 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Arabian Sea Maldives
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