Parting Shot(s)

David Fleetham · Issue 145, Jul/Aug 2025 · pp. 69–70

Products mentioned: Canon EOS R5, Ikelite dry-lock housing, Canon RF 100mm macro lens, Ikelite 230 strobes

Parting Shot(s) by David Fleetham Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 750 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) peter@uwpmag.com Diving in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia, often means navigating over expansive stretches of dark volcanic sand—a unique seascape that hosts a wealth of fascinating macro subjects. Among the most iconic are the shrimp-goby pairs: a symbiotic relationship in which a watchful goby stands guard at the entrance of a burrow that’s meticulously excavated and maintained by a nearly blind snapping shrimp. These partnerships are common across the sloping black sand plains and make for classic behavior shots. On several dives, I encountered small groups of redspot dartfish, Pterel…