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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Rico Besserdich

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"Reflection Attack" ;-))
A diver with camera, a fish, water surface, night, lights and reflections...where is the top, where is the bottom ??
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"Face of a flounder"
Ancient amphora ( dated to 500 BC ) . Taken in B/W using ambient light only ( no strobes ) in a depht of around 18 meter.
"Squid Face" ;-)
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Squid Closeup
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"Spread your wings & show me some colours !"
"The Descent" ;-)
Sigma 10-20mm lens with "magic filters" attached. Natural light only, no strobe. Egypt, Red Sea
Airplane Wreck
Not much fish, but beautifull underwater landscapes : A divespot in Turkey named "The Canyon". Ambient light shot with Canon 40D & Sigma 10-20 mm ( on the 10mm end ), "magic filters" attached.
"1000 & 1 nights" ;-) From an pool shooting session at night.
Cornet fish at night
"fun in the pool" :-)
"Shrimp Attack !" 60mm makro lens with +10 diopter attached. F18, 1/200, ISO 200. Subject size ( the shrimp ) = 1,5 cm.
Flying flatworm ( nightdive photo ).
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"The colour blue"......
Dakota C-47. That was a bit "experimental" since in a depht of 20 meter, I used ambient light only ( no strobes ) but had found the results quiet...interesting ;-)
Canon 40D with Sigma 10-20mm ( on the 10mm end ), F:8, 1/160 sc. , ISO 800.
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Editor's Comment
a wreck doesn't need to be a boat!
a close view to a shrimp ;-)
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Flatworm in "free flight" at night :-)
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freediver & sunrays :-)
let's dance !!
In a situation where there was no fish or anything else "photogen" around during my dive, I had found this lonely beer bottle and placed my fin just beside it ;-) Let's name "the adventures of "flippy", the lonseome fin" :-)))
"sunset greetings".....
"Squid Reflections" A few juvenile squids ( the middle one is just feeding ) just 40cm below surface with some ropes in the foreground and a RIB ( Zodiac ) in the back. Nightdive with Sigma 10-20mm & +4 diopter attached.
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Abstract view of a free-swimming flatworm.
"Luke, I AM your father" :-))) Rebreather Diver, Sigma 10-20mm lens, converted to B/W.
"UW Photographer's Workplace" ;-)
This old "Toshiba Satellite" Notebook is to see inside the radio-communications room of the the Dakota C-47 airplane wreck in Kas/Antalya ( Turkey ). Above the notebook is the oxygen supply....all provided ;-)
Fluorescence...... ;-)
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