Barbados. Fish. Lilies
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Photographic Print. Neptune God stone statue in Lily pond and Palm trees in Holetown, Barbados, t...
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Photographic Print. Stone statue of Neptune God riding a fish in Lily pond in Holetown, Barbados,...
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Photographic Print. Orange Carp fish and flower in restaurant Water Lily pond, Holetown, Barbados...
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Photographic Print. Orange Koi fish, lilac Water Lily flower and Neptune statue reflected in Lily...
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Photographic Print. Orange Koi fish in milky reflections of a Water Lily pond at a Holetown resta...
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Photographic Print. Lilac Lily pond flower in cloud reflections of milky water at a restaurant in...
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Photographic Print. Grey and orange Koi fish with Water Lily leaves in water garden in Holetown, ...
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Photographic Print. Orange and black Koi fish in Water Lily pond at a Holetown restaurant, Barbad...
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Photographic Print. Orange and black Koi fish under Water Lily leaf in a pond, Holetown, Barbados...
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Photographic Print. Orange Koi fish in milky blue grey water in Water Lily pond in Holetown, Barb...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and Koi fish in misty grey water, Lily pond in Holetown, Barb...
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Photographic Print. Glowing pink Water Lily and Koi fish in Lily pond at Holetown restaurant, Bar...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and Koi fish in a milky Lily pond at Holetown restaurant, Bar...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and watercolour Lily pond at Holetown restaurant, Barbados, C...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily in pond at a restaurant in Holetown, Barbados, Caribbean. Th...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and bud in dark water at a restaurant in Holetown, Barbados, ...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and variegated leaf in Lily pond at Holetown restaurant, Barb...
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Photographic Print. Pink Water Lily and clouds in pond at Holetown restaurant, Barbados, Caribbea...
Colours are accurate to my photographs but are often over saturated on current HD, uncalibrated and phone screens. I was intrigued by the beautiful orange coloured Carp fish in the Water Lily pond at Tides in Holetown, Barbados in the Caribbean. They were
camera shy so I spent a long time watching them and waiting for them to
come to the surface so I could photograph them. I like the way the statue of the God Neptune
fiercely oversees his pool of water and looks out to sea which is just
beyond the Lily pond. Neptune was the name that ancient Romans gave to the Greek mythological god of the sea and
earthquakes, Poseidon. Neptune was usually depicted as a
bearded man holding a trident and seated in a seashell drawn by sea-horses. The way the water and colours of the fish blur
like watercolours is something I want to explore further in my
photography. Koi are ornamental varieties of domesticated Carp
that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor water gardens and
ponds. In Japanese Koi represents love or affection so they are therefore
symbols of love
and friendship in Japan and Nishikigoi means coloured Carp. It derives
from the Japanese word Nishiki meaning a highly coloured cloth and Goi
or Koi which is the word for Carp. Koi are
believed to have been introduced to Japan with the invading Chinese and
according to Koi fish history the first account of them being kept by
an emperor in Japan was in AD 200. Colour mutations feauring patches of
colour occurred naturally in China and breeding began for these
mutations around 1000 years ago. They were first bred for mutations in
Japan around 1820 and it is generally
recognised that the Japanese are the creators of Nishikigoi, a
name first used in 1914.
They are also called Living
Jewels. The Koi, Water Lily flowers and pond leaves form decorative
patterns in the water garden. Although the fish are swimming, the
photographs have a tranquility and
stillness due to their grace and the hazy water and reflections in the
Koi pond. In the section Flowers there is a pink cone shaped Ginger
Torch flower which was photographed at The Flower Forrest Botanical
Gardens in Barbados.907
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