Parting Shots

Linda Robertson · Issue 52, Jan/Feb 2010 · pp. 78–80

Products mentioned: Fuji Finepix F50fd, Silver Efex Pro, Olympus 5050, Inon UW100

Parting Shot 1 After seeing the photos of the Snake Eel in the Nov/Dec issue. I was reminded of a similar experience I had whilst diving with my buddies earlier this year and thought you might be interested to use the story. These photos were taken in the North East of Scotland on an evening dive at Rosehearty, one of the best sites in the area with a wide variety of marine life and normally good visibility. It’s usually on chance encounters like this that you are left thinking I wish I had brought my camera (a Fuji F50fd) but on this occasion thankfully I had. Normally these scorpion fish are just lying there trying to hide and be as inconspicuous as possible using their colours to blend into the back ground but on this dive we were just returning to the entry site when I noticed a flash of silver out of the corner of my eye. When I stopped to investigate I couldn’t believe that a fish …