Caribbean Coral Macro Photography It’s easy to swim right past coral colonies while scuba diving. Perhaps you notice their shape or stature, but few divers will get up close and personal and start observing corals at a macro level. Depending…
The Beauty in the Beast! – Learn Your Corals, To Spot Your Model
Beauty in the Beast Ok, we are all about corals, but after years of learning the basic of Underwater Macro Photography, in order to shoot our beloved corals, I noticed that many of the best UW macro-photography subjects are actually…
Give Macro Subjects Maximum Light With The X-Adventurer Optical Snoot
Another device that X-Adventurer featured at DEMA was a very interesting optical snoot that uses a glass lens to focus incoming light. The use of snoots for super macro photography is somewhat outside our wheelhouse but we’re going to take…
Turn Your Camera Into A Veritable Microscope With the Saga Trio Macro Lens System
You’ve undoubtedly heard of wet lenses but you’ve probably never seen anything like the Saga Trio Macro Lens System. This unique device is an add-on for avid macro photographers which adds +5, +10, or +15 magnification all with the flip…
The Awakening Of The Coral – Epic Macro Time Lapse Video
It’s so awesome to be a part of a hobby that lends itself so well to artistic interpretation. Photography, macro photography, timelapses – all of these techniques can reveal some unique insights into what our corals are doing. But you really…
High Definition Time Lapse Can Actually Demonstrate Coral Behavior
Behavior is one aspect of biology which is hard to document in our slow moving corals. Over the decades we aquarists have learned a lot about what our corals do and how they behave over long periods of time, but…
Fluorescent Friday – the macro time lapse videos of Coral Morphologic
When it comes to imaging and photographing corals, few shooters can come close to the level of skill displayed by Coral Morphologic. In addition to growing lotsa vice zoanthids, presenting at a TEDx conference, and rescuing rare corals from the Miami River,…
These marine worms will blow your mind
These images of marine worms will either blow your mind or give you nightmares. The stunning new photographs from Alexander Semenov showcase some of the 222 polychaeta worms he has been studying. If you haven’t seen Semenov’s photos before, then…
Mesoscope 2 review: a mandatory visual tool for serious reef hobbyists and professionals
The Aquarium hobby is a pastime of observation and if you like detail and discovery, the Mesoscope 2 is an indispensable visual tool. The Mesoscope 2 improves on its predecessor in every way with a better attachment, better field of view, improved optics with…
