Parting Shots 1, 2 & 3

Terry Crocker & Andrew Cummings · Issue 115, Jul/Aug 2020 · pp. 71–73

Products mentioned: Olympus XZ-1, Nauticam XZ-1 Housing, Inon UWL H100 M67, Sea & Sea YS-D1, Nikon D500, Ikelite Housing, Nikon 60mm, Ikelite DS51, GoPro5, iTorch PRO6

Parting Shot 1 Sometimes “lady luck” is on your side when you are taking underwater photographs; this was definitely the case for me, when I was diving at a site called “Trail Blazer” from the Wakatobi Dive Resort on 21st November 2016. As I approached a ridge, I noticed a very nice pink fan coral, so I attached my Inon wet wide-angle lens and moved in the take the shot. As I was about to take the photo, 2 divers came over a ridge from the opposite direction and appeared to be looking at the fan coral in the foreground, “excellent” I thought, that will further enhance the photo. As I moved in for the final composition, I suddenly became aware of the end of the tail of a blue spotted stingray zooming past my left fist and into the picture at high speed from over the ridge also (top left to bottom right) just as I took the photo. When I reviewed the shot on the back of my camera, I couldn’…