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  1. This is a bad idea.

    I've always loved mixed materials in buildings and designs. The last home my family built had dark, charcoal grey polished concrete floors. My room had light green walls and rich wood furniture. It was actually very calming. Since then I've played around with a few ideas. I built a concrete fish tank that functioned fine but didn’t come out perfect and I never had a second go at it since it was pretty hard to make. But let’s bring it forward to today. Plywood tanks. I've read up on all the ones ...

    Updated 01-24-2014 at 11:03 PM by melev

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    Tank Entry , ‎ DIY projects
  2. Yesterday was my birthday, so I enjoyed viewing my reef

    I decided to try to take some pictures from above. I'm shooting with a Nikon D90, and used a 20mm extension tube with the 110mm Macro lens. Some shots were then taken with the 50mm with a polarizing filter, and I broke out the off shoe remote flash using an extending cable to light the subject from an angle, off to the side.

    All images were shot in RAW-format in Manual mode. ISO varied depending on the amount of light the subject was under. Spectrum was 20,000K.

    The ...
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    Photography/Video