Parting Shots

Ivan Donoghue · Issue 76, Jan/Feb 2014 · pp. 86–87

Products mentioned: Canon 550D, Aquatica T2i housing, Inon Z-240 strobes, Tokina 10-17 lens, Olympus OM-D E-M5, Nauticam NA-EM5, Olympus 12-50 zoom lens

Parting Shot 1 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 Sometimes your most popular diving photo can come when you least expect it, and to your surprise may not even be taken underwater. Back in July 2013, hundreds of divers descended on the southeast coast of Ireland to attend a dive rally where divers camped beside and visited some of the best underwater sites in Ireland. After the first day’s dives were over, myself and my dive buddy Balazs Bauer were soaking up the sun’s rays, when itchy feet brought an end to our laziness and we decided to take a walk along the coast. We came to a shore dive site called Solomon’s Hole, an area I hadn’t dived in years, but which I had been anxious to get back to. The site is an archway over a gully leading out to the sea. On that …