Parting Shots

Tobi Bernhard & Dan Bolt · Issue 72, May/Jun 2013 · pp. 68–72

Products mentioned: Subal Nikon D800 housing, Nikon 14mm f2.5 lens, Nikon SB910 flashgun, Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe, Olympus E-PL5, Canon S90, FIX housing, SOLA600 focus light

Do you have an image which has a ‘story within a story’? If so we’d love to hear from you. E mail us and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com Parting Shots 1 The cyclone season in the South Pacific may not be considered the best time for diving and underwater photography. Volatile weather conditions and bad visibility not to mention the sticky heat are not everyones bilo (half coconut shell) of kava (dishwater). But it seems there is a different cast of actors populating the waters at this time of the year. For example, there are more small baitfish around and all kinds of reef fish in early juvenile state. So I sometimes have the more surprising wildlife encounters in the summer. This is one such example when, after I just sucked a tank dry to improve on a very ordinary subject, I found a mantis shrimp drifting motionless past the boat on the surface. I thought it wa…