Parting Shot

David Fleetham · Issue 112, Jan/Feb 2020 · pp. 81

Products mentioned: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro, Ikelite dry-lock housing, Ikelite 161 strobes, Lightroom, Photoshop

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 The island of Yap in Micronesia has two passages in the surrounding outer reef, Goofnuw and Mi’l channels, where manta rays come to visit cleaning stations. I had patiently spent the previous day with a wide angle lens in Goofnuw with my fingers crossed. I roamed back and forth between the two known hot spots but to no avail. Huge stands of various hard corals and some cooperative angelfish where my take away this day. I did spot an unusual shrimp in a mushroom coral and decided my next dive would be with a 100mm macro lens to capture this eye candy crustacean. Luckily Yap Divers and Manta Ray Bay Resort are flexible with their schedules and I switched boats the next morning to return again to Goofnuw. I attempted to ign…