Seagrass: The Clear Water Beauty of Florida Bay

Florida Bay, you can see the seagrass growing on the Bay bottom, along with seaweed, and all sorts of other stuff. More photos to follow, or in first comment below eventually. This photo was taken at the waters surface, above the water. (I don't have an underwater camera at this time.) The water is very clear, and with the right angle, instead of seeing the reflections on the surface in a photo, you can see right through the clear water down to the bottom. You can see the seagrass and seaweed growing on the bottom in about 4 feet of water, and you can see the the golden reflections of the sun bouncing off the waves on the surface. I hope that this conveys some of the beauty of our precious clear water, which is home to manatees and dolphins, fish, bay scallops which live on the seagrass, sponges, star fish, corals, tunicates, mangroves, and species too numerous to mention. Every moment is like a painting by Mother Nature, with a new color palette, depending on the weather, sun, clouds, wind and waves.

Very busy with photo documentation of our lovely Key Largo environment, hoping miraculously that the oil spill will not affect us.

Week 18/52.5 for 2010, Assignment 52 Theme: Green

A good info site is here with the National Park Service: www.nps.gov/aboutus/oil-spill-response.htm
More info on all sorts of things about the oil spill, news reports, things to do, photo documentation in this Flickr group: www.nps.gov/guis/naturescience/seagrass-beds.htm Gulf of Mexico Wildlife- Before the Oil Spill
More info about seagrass here, with the National Park Service: www.nps.gov/guis/naturescience/seagrass-beds.htm

We hope that our area is not affected, but even with booms and barriers and attempts to protect, look at what has already happened to wetlands in Louisiana: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/05/12/...
and then go to photo #34. Many others are interesting too. Sorry, you do have to listen through an ad to get to the photos.

Taken 5/9/10, Uploaded 5/9/10, #5101, exposure enhanced only

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Taken in: United States / Florida / Key Largo (show map)

Taken on: May 9, 2010

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Sets appears in: • Seascapes, South Florida • Sunset Cove: The Life of The Sea and of People more » • Looking at Water, Expanding The Moment • Treasures of Florida Bay and Ocean: Photo Documentation of the Before and Hopefully the Forever After • Public 2010 « less

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Camera: Canon PowerShot A630, f/3.5, 1/160 sec, 17.3mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot A630
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	17.3mm
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Windows
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