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We have been a hobby koi keeper for over twenty years. In our business we (used to )install koi ponds, watergardens, raised tropical plants, etc. Now we are in the process of clearing the time consuming items out since I sold the business in 2007. What is directly below was added to the site about a year ago and edited recently to the past tense since we do not have most of the koi shown in photographs. We still have some of them but have downsized. We plan to raise some fancy hybrid waterlilies. Visit us later and see what is new Today is 4/19/2009. Although I do not pretend to be an absolute authority on koi, I have learned a few things over the years from observation, going to koi shows, and just being very interested in the koi culture. On these pages I have placed photographs of some of the koi that we have had for sale in the past. In our business we tended to deal with beginner pond keepers, and their wants and desires are quite a bit different than the Koi Kichi enthusiast. We had some very high value koi and quite a few that are just nice pond quality koi. I have had a personal fancy for Butterfly koi and have purchased, raised and sold a lot of this very special koi. About the Photographs You can purchase koi from many of places. How do you know that you will get what you see in the photograph? With digital photography one can make an average koi into a Grand Champion. On these pages, I have often posted more than one photo. The proper showing of the koi is head downward so you are staring eyeball to eyeball which is pretty hard to photograph. I believe the koi sees me and the camera and does not want to look at me so turns in the opposite direction. After taking lots of 10 megabit photos, I try to get one in the head downward position, and usually I have to lighten up the photo. Essentially, this is all I do in terms of “touching up the photo.” I will fill in a background to emphasize the koi. Sometimes, the color does not appear to be to be true, and also certain parts of the fish are not shown in a single photograph. For this reason, I will often display other photos which tend to show the fish from more than one side. I also have found that when I photograph in daylight the colors are a little truer. I usually move the koi to the shade to try to get away from reflections on the water. Recently I have experimented on photographing the fish in the pond and then cropping them so that just a few special fish are featured. I will often darken the background and remove junk from the pond water but I do not alter the bodies or remove blemishes on the fish. My goal is to give you a photo or a few photos that show you what the fish really looks like. On each page I also will try to give you a description of the fish. I do not want to insult you, but I will try to explain some of the basics since I will assume that many visitors will be nubies. (new koi keepers) The koi that are for sale (do not have these koi now) are listed by some of their more common classifications. These classifications can be broken down further, but that is probably necessary for this site.
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McNeary’s Ponds and Aquatic Plants 3521 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28205 |
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