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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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May 13, 09     Comments Off
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Good evening friends and family how was your day??  I first want to thank all of you for the compliments!  I was a bit shocked by how many of you liked the dolphin picture today, we received a ton of mail regarding that one??  Heck I’m just glad you guys are still out there keeping us company after all these years, we really enjoy reading your feedback. 
 
I worked today but Aimee was off.  I was able to do a dive with her at 1:00 being that we had no 3:00 programs so off we went on another “sponge locating dive” and had a blast!  The moment we went under we realized how clear the water was but soon found out why, mother nature had turned on the current!  We dove down to 50 feet staying low to the reef but still fighting the current head on.  If you think just diving in current is hard, try to take pictures as well, there’s a challenge for you!  Aimee would signal me to come over and shoot whatever she had just found and I had to find a way to stay in one spot long enough to do it, which is just a matter of body positioning and a little luck.  Both of us really enjoyed this dive but burned our tanks up fast because of how hard we had to work to stay in one spot and we both exited with a headache from breathing so hard! 
 
Your photo this evening was taken yesterday in our back yard of our now daily squawking visitors!  I am starting to get real good at hearing them from inside, grab the camera, crouch down as low as I can and ever so quietly TRY to sneak up on them.  Most of the time I get busted and they fly off screaming the whole way but sometimes like you see here I can get pretty close.  It’s just so cool to live somewhere that has tropical birds flying around, we really enjoy them and hope they continue to come visit.
 
Aimee and I are going to the movies this evening for a night of relaxation and popcorn so I have to get moving!  Talk to you again soon, Barry
05-13-2009
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