Re: AGA Contest Question

[Michael Eckardt <mike@odg.com>]

I can support the illustration category, James, but I do have some 
reservations to the pond category:

1. A pond is an integral part of a (garden) landscape, a component of an 
overall "terrestrial" design. And there are plenty of garden clubs and 
garden related contests that we don't need another one. To put it simply, 
we are in the aquarium hobby, not in the gardening hobby.

2. AGA's focus has been (unless I got this completely wrong) on underwater 
plants, underwater "landscapes", underwater concepts. I believe that focus 
should remain.

3. Many, if not most, pond plants have no underwater component. Therefore, 
they may not have any relevance for the majority of AGA members that may 
not be familiar with them.

As an alternative, can I suggest another category: Underwater pictures of 
plants and fish. The pictures would be evaluated on the artistic merit of 
the picture and the health and beauty of the plants and animals. An 
aquarium layout would not be required, a planting plan would be irrelevant. 
(Example: there's a beautiful picture of a cory on some riccia on the CD).

Michael Eckardt

At 02:26 PM 4/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> .....I'd like some feedback, please.....
{snip}

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