Parting Shot

Floris Bennema · Issue 125, Mar/Apr 2022 · pp. 58–61

Products mentioned: Olympus EM-5 III, Nauticam housing, Olympus 12-42 lens, Nauticam WWL-1, Sea&Sea YS-01 strobes, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Ikelite housing, Canon EF16-35mm f/4 IS USM, Ikelite 161 strobes

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 Just after the pandemic reached us I decided to renew my underwater equipment. Time enough to study the settings, knobs and dials of my new camera and housing. And our garden could be used as a test lab for the camera, flowers and insects were perfect macro opportunities. Also it was time to deepen my knowledge so I followed an online course by a famous British underwater photographer. An excellent reboot. After that, there was little left than dream away till we had the opportunity to step into the water again. Finally the day broke on that we could dive in the salt water lake in the south of our country. However, at the moment we wanted to get in, my lack of experience became apparent. I had forgotten to set back the…