Parting Shots

Eric Hanauer & Mark Harris · Issue 128, Sep/Oct 2022 · pp. 69–70

Products mentioned: Olympus OM-D E-M1 mkii, Olympus 60mm macro, INON Z240 strobe, INON S2000 strobe, Nauticam NA-EM1ii housing, Panasonic GH5, Nauticam housing, Lumix 14-42mm lens, 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 Do arrow crabs have ears? If so, is this one waving a pincer around his right ear as some kind of warning? Full credit to my partner and buddy Laura Storm for finding this one embedded in an azure sponge, 18m down at Pink Beach, Bonaire. Laura had finished her own capturing with this individual, and although it was my turn, I decided to grab just a couple of frames. Conscious that this crab had already been strobed a few times, there was also my dive computer nudging me that bottom time was ticking away. I sincerely hope that being angled downward at about 120 degrees wasn’t a contributory factor to what happened next. I started ascending and then stopped. Expanding air in my right middle ear wasn’t manoeuvring out via…