Parting Shot

Staff · Issue 42, May/Jun 2008 · pp. 62

Products mentioned: Sea & Sea Motormarine II, 12-24mm zoom, 10.5mm fisheye lens

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 Parting Shot Persevere, avoid the crowds… and cheat! I’ve always wanted to shoot a good image of a jellyfish, having failed with British jellies when I started out in 1990 using a Sea & Sea Motormarine II, bought from a dubious back-alley shop near Hammersmith in west London (I think it was called Ocean Optics, and run by a couple of suspicious characters who seemed to build their own cameras in the back room). Martin Edge has a wonderful jelly in his book, “The Underwater Photographer”. I always wondered how he shot it in a tide pool, with a sunburst in the frame. Being older, richer and less tolerant of cold water I set off a couple of months ago for Palau, an independent state in the western Pacific, that nevertheless feels like a small corner of the USA. …