by Admin | Jan 2, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, I’m trying to recover this morning from a long day of diving yesterday, we had three sub runs mixed with cold water and current making for a long day. While I photographed the sub our friends Karen and Alan did their own diving following me once out onto our house reef and another down the coast at Pier Baai above the Carpile dive site. I have a giant 18-inch French Angelfish for you all this morning that we found on our fun drift-dive from Sea Aquarium to Substation a few days ago. We found two of these beauties together but I was unable to get them both in one photo it’s always been such a hard thing to do. Once I started shooting them they started swimming straight down to much deeper water and I finally had to call it quits, they really are not shy or scared just busy. Not much else to report, weird weather continues here, we should be having big rains but so far they are no where on the horizon? by Barry Brown | Jan 1, 2016 | Contest, Corals, Reef, Science
ABOUT Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last ten years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. He is currently working with the Smithsonian Institution documenting new Caribbean deep-water species and building a one of a kind database. His underwater images can regularly be seen in Sport Diver, Scuba Diver and on the Ikelite website. His image of a "Collage of Corals" seen under blue-light at night recently placed in the TOP 10 images for the 2014 NANPA (North American Nature Photographers Association) photo contest. General by Barry Brown | Dec 20, 2015 | Fish, Reef, Science, Travel
Good morning from the windiest place on Earth! Like the rest of the planet our weather is messed up and not normal! We should be having rain every day but instead it’s been crazy windy with very little sun and honestly if the rains don’t come soon we will be headed into another year of drought! I left the house at 6:30 this morning (in the dark) and met my neighbor for an early morning mountain bike ride. by Barry Brown | Dec 12, 2015 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, I have a colorful juvenile Puddingwife wrasse for your viewing pleasure today. As many of my fellow divers/underwater photographers know this fish never stops swimming and is very hard to get a photo of. I chased this one for 20 minutes trying to get off a lucky shot and came close to just calling it quits but wasn’t about to get beat by a little fish! Like many wrasses, the Puddingwife goes through a dramatic color/pattern change as it matures, though both the juvenile and adult animals in an attractive fish. The puddingwife wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, is a species of wrasse native to the Western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Bermuda, through the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, to offshore islands of Brazil, being absent from Brazilian coastal waters. It can be found on reefs at depths from 2 to 55 m (6.6 to 180.4 ft), with younger fish up to subadults being found in much shallower waters from 1 to 5 m (3.3 to 16.4 ft). by Barry Brown | Dec 2, 2015 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, here is the hands down most beautiful fish Curacao has to offer, it’s called a Candy Basslet, Liopropoma carmabi and lives at a depth of about 225 feet! This is by far the most sought after aquarium fish in the World and will cost you around $500 to $1000 to own one. This is considered a Sea Bass in the Serranidae family and only grows to be about two inches in length! As you can see, these mini sea bass are boldly marked with stripes generally in shades of light brown to red-brown or yellow-brown alternating with red to maroon but stripes may be occasionally yellow to lavender or even blue as you see here!!
