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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
Big Island, Hawaii. by Bill Arle
Big Island, Hawaii.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Anemone & Diver by Adolfo Maciocco
Anemone & Diver
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, June 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A chessboard wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) and shediver... by Alberto Romeo
A chessboard wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) and shediver in Maldives.
Nikonos 15mm+ Ikelite strobe.
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date posted posted: Monday, June 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Giant trevally. (Fuji f50 and Epoque ES-150DS strobe) by Cigdem Cooper
Giant trevally.
(Fuji f50 and Epoque ES-150DS strobe)
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date posted posted: Friday, June 19, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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dragonhead seafan by Heru Suryoko
dragonhead seafan
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea United States
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Everybody, looking at me!!! Stripped Grunts & 2 Porkfish... by Frankie Rivera
Everybody, looking at me!!! Stripped Grunts & 2 Porkfish @ Guanica, Puerto Rico
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Meeting with a big crinoid in a night dive in Asdu atoll ... by Alberto Romeo
Meeting with a big crinoid in a night dive in Asdu atoll Maldives.
Nikonos 15mm+Ikelite strobe.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Porkfish at Paso De Cedral - Cozumel - These fish are ve... by Steven Anderson
Porkfish at Paso De Cedral - Cozumel - These fish are very photogenic and are usually schooling in the same area on this reef.
42 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Do you feel like a star ? :) Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye with... by Andre Yanco
Do you feel like a star ? smile Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye with YS-110 in TTL Mode. Shot off the coast of Cesme.
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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Checkin out the action. by Lee Arbo
Checkin out the action.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Banda Sea on board Archipelago Adventurer II, D300-Tokina... by Larry Polster
Banda Sea on board Archipelago Adventurer II, D300-Tokina 10-17mm
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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A grouper Variola louti and u/w photographer. Nikonos 15... by Alberto Romeo
A grouper Variola louti and u/w photographer.
Nikonos 15 mm+ Ikelite strobe
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, June 12, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Laguna Berenice by Alberto D'este
Laguna Berenice
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Frogfish on the Salem Express. Canon G9 with Ikelite DS51... by James Dawson
Frogfish on the Salem Express. Canon G9 with Ikelite DS51 strobe

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Editor's Comment
You nicely filled the frame here James. For those who can't see it, it's a side view, the fish's face is right. Wow it never fails to amaze how fish camouflage, this looks like a piece of wreck, complete with rust!
70 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A magnificent example of a Giant Sea Fan (Annella mollis)... by Marko Perisic
A magnificent example of a Giant Sea Fan (Annella mollis) standing tall in the current of Little Brother Island.
32 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Can you see me? Are you sure??? Spotted Scorpion Fish @... by Frankie Rivera
Can you see me? Are you sure???
Spotted Scorpion Fish @ Crash Boat Piers, Aguadilla Puerto Rico
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Raccoon butterflyfish by Cigdem Cooper
Raccoon butterflyfish
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Seahorse at Clown City - Puerto Gallera, Mindoro by Juerg Ziegler
Seahorse at Clown City - Puerto Gallera, Mindoro
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Caroline - my wife - in the waters of the Red Sea... Que ... by Michel Lonfat
Caroline - my wife - in the waters of the Red Sea... Que du Bonheur... :O)...
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Picture of a ling, living on the ww2 wreck "Barcelona" by Harald Fauske
Picture of a ling, living on the ww2 wreck "Barcelona"
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date posted posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (European coastal) Norway
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nikonos 15 mm cozumel by John Strickland
nikonos 15 mm cozumel
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 7, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Jelly Fish eats my dive buddy!!!! This was taken durin... by Frankie Rivera
Jelly Fish eats my dive buddy!!!!
This was taken during my safety stop.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Juvenile Green turtle off Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida. by Theresa Tracy
Juvenile Green turtle off Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) United States
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Another beautiful sponge in Utila Honduras. by Lee Arbo
Another beautiful sponge in Utila Honduras.
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea United States
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softcoral forest by Heru Suryoko
softcoral forest
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Banda Sea Indonesia
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shot with a Nikon D70s by Simon Gardener
shot with a Nikon D70s
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sponge with diver, Jack Neil Beach, Utila. Canon EOS 350d... by Tobias Reitmayr
Sponge with diver, Jack Neil Beach, Utila. Canon EOS 350d, 10-22mm
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Honduras
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