Coral heads by danapommet

Photography • Animals • posted on Jun 09, 2010

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Description

Corals are marine organisms, typically living in compact colonies, of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton. Each polyp is typically only a few millimeters in diameter. This is a coral head skeleton, the actual live coral polyps have died off. Photo taken yesterday in my In-laws garden. I believe that it is illegal to harvest coral in most of the world’s oceans. This piece has been in my In-laws garden for 50 years or so. You may spot an ant and a red mite along with other scraps of garden stuff. Some information from Wikipedia. Thanks for stopping by, taking a look and for all your previous comments. Dana

Comments (17)

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Chipka

6:44PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Funny to see Coral with red land-dwelling mites! Those are notoriously hard to photograph as well...but then they probably come out most clearly when you're not trying to photograph them. At any rate, this is a wonderful shot. Coral is always so intriguing, and this is a marvelous example. Fantastic work! Great details. There's something fibrous in the upper right of the picture and if you don't pay very close attention to it, you can imagine that they're some kind of mating tendrils sent out when the water is warm enough during the right season. I love that little implied detail. Great stuff!

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icerian

6:51PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Beautiful! Well seen and done!

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Erestorfan

6:57PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Great close-up! I have a small piece like this that I bought at a shop in Florida when I was a kid.

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Faemike55

6:58PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

I also know that coral is very sharp! especially when you are reaching for something else and it gets you! Great shot

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MrsRatbag

7:13PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Great capture of this wonderful structure!

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goodoleboy

7:33PM | Wed, 09 June 2010

Fascinating foto of fascinating stuff in this shot of the ossified organisms, Dana! I like the various focus effects which give it a soft spongy feeling.

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