Colorful Coral Gardens




looking for a unique wedding motif? why not try a coral reef? (hey, that rhymes!)


if you've ever wondered why divers make so much fuss over coral reefs, well, here's my answer to it. come to think of it, i never really appreciated them as i did this summer--all the gorgeous colors and shapes made up of corals, algae, sponges, ascidians, and bryozoans that collectively we call the reef community. and i still find it amazing that we have a God who creates pink corals =D (when he could've just fashioned some boring stones for fish to live in)


pictures from my palawan and batangas research expeditions (22 April to 9 May and 19 to 23 May, 2007, respectively). one of the most important things i learned during the trip was the value of custom white balance underwater. yes folks, no more messing with flash and strobes for me (at least while i still can't afford therm =P). and the rest, as they say, is history....

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  1. Janjan PerezMay 30, 2007 at 7:46 AM

    beautiful pics Jen :)

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  2. Jemi AquinoMay 30, 2007 at 11:59 AM

    absolutely pretty!
    this one in particular looks like the amoeba boys. =)

    HUGS,
    jemi

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  3. Manang KaiyenMay 30, 2007 at 2:13 PM

    colorful corals! niice!

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  4. Bugoy Traveler PHMay 31, 2007 at 4:24 AM


    by the way, Jeneen, I won the workshop proceedings, gi premyo sa closing program, kadtung gi tambungan ninyo ni Orly. Nice, IDOL~

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  5. Jeneen GarciaJune 11, 2007 at 7:58 AM

    thanks! thanks! =D still, my camera is flawed and you only get to see the parts i've shown. imagine just how they beautiful they actually are when seen with your own eyes.

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  6. Jeneen GarciaJune 11, 2007 at 7:59 AM

    can you imagine those algae-looking things are actually ascidians, which are the only invertebrates in phylum chordata (because they have a vertebra during their larval stage i think). which makes them more closely related to us than corals or jellyfish or crabs!

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  7. Jeneen GarciaJune 11, 2007 at 8:01 AM

    hey hey! i never knew you went to the workshop! (somehow orly didn't get to mention it). wow, how was it? it was life-changing for me ;-) and how are the people there, the "institutions"? (and you mean they still have copies of THAT lying around? =P)

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  8. Bugoy Traveler PHJune 12, 2007 at 8:30 PM

    totally life changing. blows off the top of my head. learned so much. morag a year's worth of graduate studies in MFA

    yup, they never failed to let us tilt at windmills or something to that effect. hehe =)

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  9. January Kristi MigalbinJune 22, 2007 at 9:09 AM

    oh, aren't these pretty?

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  10. Jeneen GarciaJune 30, 2007 at 4:49 AM

    amazing no? although some of my friends they look like scary chicken feet =P

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  11. Ann DigitalisOctober 27, 2007 at 2:17 PM

    Those are sea squirts? I've never seen a sea squirt that looked like that. Its so flat looking.

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  12. Ann DigitalisOctober 27, 2007 at 2:19 PM

    Thats an amazing sponge

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  13. Jeneen GarciaNovember 1, 2007 at 6:50 AM

    yep, that's what the reference books says :) really thought it was algae. although it's probably not officially a sea squirt, but it's in the same subphylum of hemichordata. i think you'd call it a tunicate, but not an ascidian (or is it the other way around?).

    it was my first time to see that kind of sponge, too :) and only see it in one site, out of all the place we went colors range from brown to yellow to green to blue to purple. truly amazing.

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