Parting Shot

Dan Bolt · Issue 84, May/Jun 2015 · pp. 70

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL5, Olympus PT-EP10, 8mm fisheye lens, YS-D1 strobes

Parting Shot Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 500 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. peter@uwpmag.com When I started to write this Parting Shot for UwP I had an unnerving sense of deja vu; hadn’t I written this all before? Well as it happens I had, kind-of. Exactly 6 years ago in the May/June 2009 edition of UwP (no.48) I had a rather poor image of a female grey seal as a parting shot. It was accompanied by a moralistic tale of trying to enjoy the amazing experience that was playing out in-front of me rather than worrying about capturing a decent image. And so here I am again saying almost the same thing because I failed to follow my own advice - do as I say not as I do ;) Early spring is the only time us recreational divers get to see the extra-ordinary looking Lumpsucker, or Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus). For most of t…