by Marcin Smok | Aug 30, 2019 | Corals, Events, Eye Candy, Photography
MACNA is here and since my mind will be occupied with the show’s coverage for the next couple of weeks, I felt obligated to close the Reefapalooza chapter with the last of the coral episodes, so here it is: Corals, part III Featured in this part: Gingerbread Tropical... by Marcin Smok | Aug 11, 2019 | Corals, Events
Photographing corals never gets old. And every time I look down at a vendor’s shallow Frag Tank of Greatness and point my camera’s lens on yet another amazing coral, I ask myself “How?” How is this bottomless pool of colorful morphs of different coral species... by Marcin Smok | Aug 2, 2019 | Aquaculture, Events, Feeding
How do you draw a large crowd at Reefapalooza when you are a Spirulina farmer? By having live Mysis shrimp at your booth, naturally. AGCore Technologies is a company based in Cranston, Rhode Island that specialized in growing Spirulina, the protein-rich superfood both... by Marcin Smok | Jul 29, 2019 | Corals, Events, Eye Candy, Photography
Photographing corals never gets old. They are like human irises in that each individual one is unique, unlike any other from the same species or, in many instances, even from the same colony. Take zoanthids for example- observe any colony of these beloved soft corals... by Marcin Smok | Jul 16, 2019 | Corals, Events, Eye Candy, Photography
I regard reef shows as an excellent practice ground for macro reef photography and when it comes to the abundance of photographic subjects, it can’t get better than Reefapalooza. The first day of the show, I took only straight up macro pictures, using a Nikon DSLR...