My Shot

Colin Marshall · Issue 137, Mar/Apr 2024 · pp. 81

Products mentioned: Subal, Nikon D200, Nikkor 60mm f/2.8, Sea & Sea YS 110

My Shot by Colin Marshall Do you have a favourite shot or an image/s which made a dive special? E mail yours with some text to peter@uwpmag.com and yours could be the next My Shot/s (It’s very easy. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) Coming to the end of a liveaboard trip, I spotted this pulsating Upside-down Jellyfish (Cassiopeia andromeda) around Flores in Indonesia and took a quick solitary snap. When sorting through my images, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the jellyfish had a passenger – a Portunid Crab. I showed the image to my buddy (my wife), noting that my failure to notice this crab whilst taking the picture was a one-off lapse in my observational skills, excused by the fact this image was taken on my 30th dive of the trip, so I was a little tired. My wife gave me her f…