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Journal IAPLC 2024: World Rank #22 - 'Closing' - A Journal on Contest Aquascaping

Ehcosbie said:
Fantastic journal, thank you for taking the time to do this, I really appreciate it. Would you consider posting all of your IAPLC entry pictures so that we can see your progression in the competition?

You have inspired me to have a go for the 2025 IAPLC.
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Thank you and no problem! Go for it! It’d be great to see more UK entries next year! 🙌

Please find my entries to the IAPLC contest so far below.

IAPLC 2022 - #449
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IAPLC 2023 - #279
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IAPLC 2024 - #22
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I really like the Angel fish tank, despite its modest ranking! The arrangement/composition has the look of a tank that realistically could be sustained and the fish are beautiful and caught in a great position in the photograph. The consistency in plant form, strikes me as very impressively coherent. I try to use continuity plants in the garden, in the tank I find that quite quickly a plant which was intended to link or pull the whole perspective together, simply takes over. Probably lack of regular trimming and fine adjustment by me.
Thank you for posting these additional shots, really appreciated.
 
Connswater said:
I really like the Angel fish tank, despite its modest ranking! The arrangement/composition has the look of a tank that realistically could be sustained and the fish are beautiful and caught in a great position in the photograph. The consistency in plant form, strikes me as very impressively coherent. I try to use continuity plants in the garden, in the tank I find that quite quickly a plant which was intended to link or pull the whole perspective together, simply takes over. Probably lack of regular trimming and fine adjustment by me.
Thank you for posting these additional shots, really appreciated.
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Thank you so much!! This was probably my second favourite contest scape I’ve done behind this years’ work despite it having the lowest ranking! I believe my photography skills let this scape down a bit. I only had my camera a few months before shooting this tank and unknowingly I had the compression from the camera to my smartphone set as ‘high’ and so the image quality isn’t what it needs to be for the contest! I realised this only after making the submission to the IAPLC!

My 2023 scape I wanted to recreate a south-east Asian habitat! I however feel everything in the final photo is too fresh and newly planted and the tank lacks maturity! For example, the crypts still have some emersed leaves showing! Being critical, the composition arrangement of this one I also felt was my weakest. Too much white space and no clear end point! I would like to have another go at this style of wood arrangement (I.e hanging and flowing downwards) in the future to try and really do it justice!
 
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