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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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Aug 22, 09     Comments Off
Reef Scene

Reef Scene

Good evening all, we just had a nice hard rain pass over after a scorching hot day!!  I am again coming home after another hard day and as tired as a person can be, it was so busy again! 
 
Your photo this evening has lots of cool things all in one.  I was taking pictures of the glob of orange lumpy encrusting sponge in the middle of this large mound of massive starlet coral when these two curious fish swam over to watch what I was doing.  They just sat there looking at me the whole time I was shooting this scene completely unafraid.  If you look close on the top of the mound of coral you can see a bunch of multi colored Christmas tree worms and above the fish and over to the right you can see some orange cup coral polyps that are closed, at night they will open.  These are some of the corals that will be spawning next month with little eggs and sperm, it’s quite the sight!
 
Sorry kind of boring tonight, I am just so tired!  I smell spaghetti a cooking up stairs, that’s my cue to sign off.  I will talk to you tomorrow, have a great weekend, Barry
22-8-2009

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