Parting Shot

Peter Rowlands · Issue 89, Mar/Apr 2016 · pp. 76

Products mentioned: Panasonic GX7, Nauticam housing, Nauticam WWL-1, FIT 2400 lights, Magic Filter

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 I was only 10 minutes into my very first dive at the famous Blue Heron Bridge in Florida; it was dusk and I had my FIT 2400 lights on shooting video, as I do, when this beautiful Angelfish swam towards me and I hit the Record button. It came gracefully into frame left and I expected it to swim on through and exit right but it suddenly curved round gracefully and headed back the other way. My instinct said ‘keep filming’ which I did but as it turned I noticed that it’s left eye was not there! There was just an indentation where there should have been a healthy eye. It was quite a ghostly sight and it happened so quickly that it was arresting yet I really wondered if I had been mistaken. The moment was over and the amazing…