Parting Shots

Anita Verde & Alasdair O’Dell · Issue 120, May/Jun 2021 · pp. 60–61

Products mentioned: Olympus OMD E M5 Mark ii, INON S-2000 strobe, Micro 4:3 30mm Macro F3.5 lens, Nauticam Panasonic GH5 housing, Panasonic Lumix G X Vario Power Zoom 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6, Nauticam WWL-1 Wet lens

Parting Shot 1 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 You would think it was easy to take the perfect shot of a nudibranch. They don’t move very fast after all. This nudibranch and many of its kind are generally abundant towards the end of summer in Scotland where they love to forage along the fronds of sugar kelps (Saccharina latissima) looking for their favorite pray the hydroid Turbularia. This species is known to be the largest in the United Kingdom reaching a whopping size of 5.5 cm! They are easy to spot and in Loch Creran, Scotland at least, when you see one, there are usually many more in the area. Their size means that you do not always need to have the latest macro lens and they are often shallow enough that a good torch will provide enough light for a decent sh…