An easy way to navigate Edge of Reef can be this one: to start from a curious photo, from an intriguing phenomenon that hits us. And try to know more.
As photographers we try hard to highlight a behaviour, a natural phenomenon. We like to photograph animals while they are doing something, we like to enter in their world secretly, without disturbing...

A pair of Amphiprion clarkii is shot during egg deposition. In the photo above the female is the one in front, the yellow colour of the pectoral fins (black in the male) is typical of the Papua area (infact we are at Raja Ampat, a destination that we will describe more extensively on this website).
In a first passage, the female attaches the eggs to the rock, in a second passage the male fecundates them.
In the photo below, the culminating moment of Nemo's birth: a bright orange new egg is popping out from the female's ovopositor, clearly erect, adding up to a full nest. Life begins.

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