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Originally Posted by George Farmer
I tried to analyse each aquascape with an open-mind, but even then, of course, we are all human and have personal preferences. This is why a panel of judges is important, to make it fairer.
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I agree a panel is good to balance out favoritism/biases.I found it quite interesting though that Mellonman stated Amano and the other asian judges favored the styles other than Japanese scapes when they judged the French CAPA contest.
Since we're talking about judging and this next question sort of relates to the topic at hand...Besides the judging guidelines, how much does photo quality come into play when analyzing a scape? Is that taken into consideration among the list of guidelines (plant health, composition, etc). Most tanks always look better in person, and not all great aquascapers are great photographers.
-John N.