Dolphins
By Dani Barchana
13 Mar 2008
My Name is Dani, and I work in a unique place called "Dolphin Reef" in Eilat, Israel. The uniqueness of the place is - Dolphins are not trained with food there. They get their daily portions, divided to 5 meals a day, but they do not do anything to get their food. After the feeding, those dolphins who want to stay and play/train are doing that out of their own will!
Another thing that is unique about the place is - we never separate a dolphin from the group. They all live together, as a pack, in a big, fenced lagoon. A net is keeping them from wondering out to sea, but the place is huge!
People can swim and dive with them (everything is guided, of course, to keep the dolphins from harm), and those who want to, come to see the feedings and playing and ask questions about the dolphins.
How am I related to all of this?
I am their Doctor, and I love almost every minute of it (accept when they are sick, of course)
I swim and dive with them, and while working with those amazing animals, I take pictures for medical purposes (lesions, wounds and all kind of nasty things). After some time, I noticed I liked some of the pictures because of the artistic, and not the medical value of some of them. So I started storing the nicer ones in a different folder on my computer, for the day I shell find something to do with them.
Some weeks ago I discovered JPG Magazine, and decided - That day has come...
3 responses
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Zerina Phillip gave props (26 Nov 2008):
Got my vote. Keep up the good work, and photography.
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Steve Merrill said (24 Dec 2008):
What a cool job you have ! Will you hire me ?
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Mary Rota .photropics. said (3 Apr 2009):
I m happily surprised that I found in this site pictures of Eilat Dolphin Reef! is a place that I have in plans visit some day !!
