"Coral Fluorescence" Size:26x70 pine-covered hills and jagged bluffs

pine-covered hills and jagged bluffs plunge into the sea at Point Lobos

Doug Perrine is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost marine wildlife photographers

77 gigapixel image

Adult male north Pacific humpback whale “bubble streaming” underwater

"Coral Fluorescence" Size:26x70 pine-covered hills and jagged bluffsLiving corals at Bloody Bay Wall glow green when illuminated with pure blue light. The protein responsible is one of the most important areas of biomedical research today, using the properties of the proteins sampled from living corals. Working with scientists studying coral fluorescence, this image was produced in 2011 with a grant from the National Science Foundation and support from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Jim Hellemn