"Shimmering Polyps" Size:20x30 Shipped in lightweight box

Shipped in lightweight box

Jim Hellemn has made a career out of inventing ways to capture the spectacular colors and details of coral reefs

The custom Aluminum frame and the eight large panels that make up the huge display were machined by computer to insure a precise fit

Gallery wrap on 1 1/2 inch stretcher bars - ready to hang

"Shimmering Polyps" Size:20x30 Shipped in lightweight boxGreen Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in living coral polyps light up in brilliant green in response to pure blue light. Special filters in the camera lens block out the blue illumination, recording only the glowing green coral polyps and the red biofluorescence emitted by chlorophyll in the algae covering the reef substrate. Coral species can be identified by the patterns of the biofluorescence they emit. Archival fine art print on Aluminum composite with