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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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Miniature Antique Perfume Bottle with Flowers
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Dec 16, 08     Comments Off
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Good evening friends,  I meant to send this out a few years ago but never got around to it.  An hour before the 2006 World Cup Mountain bike race was to begin Aimee and I took off out into the bush to pick our spots along side the trail to watch and take photo’s.  Along the way while walking on the actual course we found this 100 year old tiny purple perfume bottle laying half buried directly in the middle of one of the trails.  This whole area behind the aquarium used to be a dump but was mostly cleaned years and years ago before the aquarium was built.  The bottle is an inch and three fourth’s tall or around 4.3cm and has a tarnished sterling silver top, it’s really cool.  Back in the States those of you who visited our house know that I collect miniature antique bottle’s although most of those are cobalt blue poison bottles this is a real treasure.  Well today while out hiking with Aimee I found these really cool tiny little flowers.  Both of us tried and tried to shoot them in the wild this morning but with a breeze blowing from the east it made the task completely impossible.  I am a determined soul so I carefully cut one and brought it home knowing that this little bottle would be a perfect holder.  If any of you local folks know the name of these please send it to me, can use all the help I can get.  So from that day on we have named it our “World Cup bottle” and look at it every day as it sits in our bathroom on a display shelf. 
 
Aimee’s parents and sister arrived in 100% great shape without any problems, they said the airports and planes along the way were packed, tiss the season!!  They slept in this morning while Aimee and I did the two and a half hour hike thing looking for little things to shoot.  In the afternoon we all went on a fun/crazy trip to the local grocery store, it was a case of culture shock for sure for these guys trying to figure out what everything said as it’s all written in Dutch.  Aimee also took them to the beach today and they all went snorkeling and from the sounds of it they all had a blast.
 
Talk to you tomorrow, Sunny regards, Barry
12-16-2008



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