If there’s one thing that can be said about January, it’s that is just so…dreary. If you’re lucky enough to live where there’s always crisp, glistening crystal snow, or where there’s always lush greenery and brilliant sunshine: screw you. For the rest of us, it seems we’re doomed to find most days in January that same old dreary trudge broken intermittently by trips to the ski hills or, (for those lucky enough) some time off for winter holidays in the sun. It’s kind of like the whole month operates in the same crappy continuum as our work week.
If you can’t take one of those gorgeous hot weather vacations right now, then I feel your pain. While I can’t recreate soft sand, subtle surf and sweet sips, I can totally show you this mind blowing macro coral photography. And you can either a) rest easy or b) throw up in your mouth a little knowing that I wrote this in my bikini; I’m here to help. We’ll get through this together.
Macro Coral Photography- OK Ocean, We Get It: You’re More Fun
You know what January needs? Color. Color, like an electric kick in the nuts. Color, like a riotous, joyful explosion of happiness that is in no way, shape or form related to anything inappropriate. So I bring you my beach offering: and by ‘my’ I mean, Felix Salizar’s MACRO CORAL REEF DWELLERS: A RETROSPECTIVE. We can look back on all the things that the ocean has been doing right under our noses, and we can glean a little joy from it. Because seriously, nothing spices up the torture of a shitty sleet filled day waiting for your car to heat up, like the idea that somewhere out there unda da sea, there are tight and bright little organisms that give absolutely no cares. Let’s take a cue from that, guys, in our quest for winter happiness. When your boss asks why in god’s name you are sitting crosslegged on your desk in a fluorescent spandex bodysuit, waving happily (if somewhat dumbly, or perhaps even violently) at everyone who passes instead of filing that TPS report, tell him you’re “just channeling my inner coral, man.”
And as a bonus, here is an awesome little shrimp chilling on some coral and he’s bright like a boss so it counts. You can definitely pretend that little sea star beside him is some crazy underwater marijuana and that he is a total gangster.
Salazar has a bunch of other cool pieces, like test rocket launches, pretty ladies, and music, so head on over to his site to support his work.
