Mindscape In Cyberspace

When I landed on the home page of Creative Aquascape Union (www.cau-aqua.net) I have almost closed it without even clicking on a single link, because the entire site is in Chinese (Well, I am not very sure about that, too!) and there is no English version. I can’t read Chinese, but still, I can see images and I was amazed when I saw their gallery.

The CAU gallery features a series of incredible aquascapes and aquarium photographs by the members of this award winning group of creative aquscape designers. Even if this is a non-english site, the images do not require any text. Each set up has a poetic title (mostly in English), given by the artist himself.

I came across this group called Creative Aquascape Union (CAU) on the Aquatic Gardener’s Showcase while checking out the result of AGA Aquascaping contest for 2006. I immediately noticed Creative Aquascape Union (www.cau-aqua.net) as they have 6 stunning entries including the ‘1st place‘ and ‘Best of the Show‘ title holder in Small category, 4 in medium , ‘2nd place’ in large category, 3 nominations including the one which got the ‘3rd place’ in x-large category and each one has a creative touch on it. Incredible works!

My personal favorite is this one: Green Morning by Harry Kwong. Awesome work! Kudos to you, guys!

I have also found their Maintenance Knowledge and Setup Guide sections very good and helpful and even if they are in Chinese, they have very detailed step-by-step photo documentation of those award winning projects – setting up and care.

[Originally posted on SamitOnline.net on 2007-04-04 and later shifted to SamitRoy.org]