Video: Aquascaping by Takashi Amano
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Aquarium is a very widespread and versatile hobby in our time, while all aquarists, both experienced and only beginners, are trying to create in their aquarium a wonderful living world with a variety of plants, fish, turning their aquariums into real works of art.
The man, thanks to whom the interest in the art of design and maintenance of aquariums has increased, is a true guru of aquarium hobby, and his name is Takashi Amano.
Takashi Amano is a designer, photographer and aquarist, founder of a company called Aqua Design Amano, which introduces Japanese horticultural principles to the aquascaping industry. Aquascaping is the art of aquarium design, in which the aquarium itself becomes a living picture, transforming an ordinary aquarium into a masterpiece of nature. His aquarium compositions include an intricate, typically asymmetrical (albeit balanced) arrangement of aquarium plants, which are enhanced by the addition of a variety of river rocks and driftwood. The author's underwater paintings often imitate nature and its appearance. Such an aquarium can rightfully be considered a work of art.
Takashi Amano, at an early age, was extremely fond of underwater plants and animals, often creating and photographing his gardens. With age, he began to publish photographs and essays on the topic of tropical fish and tropical river plants, traveling extensively in Africa, Asia and the southern islands of Japan.
Amano is the author of Nature Aquarium World, and a series of books on aquascaping and freshwater aquarium plants and fish. He also published Aquarium Plant Paradise. Amano's books are published in millions of copies and are translated by the best translation agencies into almost all languages of the world.
Takashi Amano personally participates in the development of aquariums and accepts orders for the arrangement of aquariums from the most famous people on the planet, who want their little underwater world to include all the technical innovations of the famous aqua designer.
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