Parting Shot

Douglas David Seifert · Issue 97, Jul/Aug 2017 · pp. 60

Products mentioned: Nikon D810, Nikon 60mm macro, Inon Z-240

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 and yours could be in UwP98 Parting Shot Sponge crabs (Dromia erythropus) are a more or less regularly sighted reef denizen during night dives in the Indo-Pacific. They utilize their back legs to hold onto sponges they have collected and shaped to provide a mobile cover for their nocturnal meanders. Usually the sponges they carry with them become algae covered and tattered, making for still effective camouflage but not for very nice imagery. This particular Crab came darting off a substantial coral bommie and onto the sand flat in a direction towards another coral bommie on this patch reef and black sand slope environment in Dauin, Dumaguete, Philippines. It is truly difficult to find an eye pleasing image of a Crab for laypersons no…