Parting Shots

Jeff Mullins · Issue 28, Jan/Feb 2006 · pp. 45–48

Products mentioned: Olympus C-5050Z, Olympus PT-015 Housing, Inon Z220 strobes

Parting shots 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”. peter@uwpmag.com A late afternoon dive at Batu Kelebit on Bali’s north-east coast, was intended to be an introduction to the dive site for a friend of mine who hadn’t dived there before.The day was overcast and the late afternoon sun was not penetrating the deeper waters very well. We caught a brief glimpse of a grey reef shark cruising in open water, but decided it was too dark for photography. We headed back up the slope to spend more time in the brighter shallows. There appeared to be an unusual amount of fish life swarming around the prominent coral heads that dominate the shallows. A turtle was poking around the hard corals and a black-tip reef shark cruised between us heading slowly off to deeper water. Shallower still, we stumbled into a group of seven la…