Parting shot

Tony Sutton · Issue 20, Aug/Sep 2004 · pp. 56

Products mentioned: Cobra 440 flash gun, Nikon 801, Nikkor 60mm macro lens, Velvia 50

Parting shot Do you have a nice shot with a short story behind it? If so e mail me and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. This certainly was not a champagne moment. I was in the Isles of Scilly channel that separates the islands Bryher and Tresco, trying to get under the sea swell. But at a depth of 25m I could still feel the swell and swaying in front of my eyes was my Cobra 440 – my land flash gun liberated from its underwater housing. Shock and horror gave way to total denial. I reached for the flash gun and put it back in its Perspex housing and pressed the shutter a couple of times. No flash. Reality returned. The first day of a diving holiday and no back-up and little likelihood that the one camera shop on the Isles of Scilly would have anything remotely like the flashgun I had taken for a very wet dive. “Drowned is it. Cant you revive it with a bit of artificial respiration?”…