Parting Shot

David Fleetham · Issue 131, Mar/Apr 2023 · pp. 62

Products mentioned: Canon EOS 5D mark IV, Ikelite housing, Canon EF100mm macro lens, Ikelite 161 strobes

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 Parting Shot In 2017 off the island of Yap in Micronesia, and many other locations, the ocean temperature exceeded what would be considered normal. Many species of coral were affected, but I did not realize that anemones, which are somewhat gigantic polyps, were also at risk. Some were colourless like their calcium carbonate counterparts and there was talk of them surviving if the temperature would just cool a bit. Images of the pink anemonefish, Amphiprion perideraion, in this anemone, Heteractis magnifica, were surreal, almost as if the background was converted to black and white. I shot many frames over the two weeks at the Manta Ray Bay Resort and was disappointed the following year when I returned to find an empty space where I …