Some nighttime pictures with the lights out (with flash).

Tailspot Blenny...he should be sleeping!

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Pom Pom Crab...Never see him much in the day other than feeding time but every night he explores the tank.

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How do you focus if the room and tank are not lit? Does your camera have the little light that assists with focusing?

Yes it does. Takes a long time to get focused when its dark. I just take a lot of pictures and then a few usually turn out nice. I have a few more that look pretty good that I will post later.

Wow, those pictures worked out not too bad considering it's with flash (when I try with flash, the colours are hugely washed out).

One thing you might want to consider as a nifty little DIY project one day, is a lens ring flash (eliminates the shadow since the light source is also the viewpoint).

Cool I will look into that. I do like to take pics with the lights out so that would come in handy.

This is as close to a full tank shot as I am going to take right now (until the tank starts to grow in)! I wanted to post a shot of where the tank is and how it works with the room. The stand is coming up a little bit orange I think but its a nice bright red. There are going to be some professional pictures taken of our place in the new year, so I will post those :)

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How on earth did you get that massive piece of art up there? Is it your work? Room's lookin' tight =)

Yes it is my art. The canvas is super lightweight and I build them on site (not that I have done a lot but I have sold a few similar sized) and then I guess the owner has to get them out later somehow. It ain't fitting through many doors.

This one is to hide the ugly murphy bed when its not being used. The art just slides to the side when the bed comes down. Take a few seconds. Actually someone commented on how that would be annoying to do everynight until I showed them how easy it was. I also explained how having a murphy bed means NEVER having to make the bed :wink:

Thanks, the room was my first crack at interior design with a budget. Got me my initial job (along with my usual design portfolio) into that industry which can be pretty tough to get into if you haven't gone to school for it.

Oh one of those flip up beds. Isn't every condo at least one bedroom though? What made you decide to do it this way?

I'm sure the Solana lights aren't the best as far as reflectors go but it'd tie in nicely with your big extender light thingie...

No, there are studio condos like ours. We went with it because it had a bigger living space than anything else we saw. Basically its a similar square footage to a one bedroom but without the bedroom, so we get a big livingroom. Most of the condos we looked at would never fit such a large sectional and what you can't see in the photos is that there is even a 6' daybed in that room. It's quite a large room for a Vancouver condo. Feels more like a house livingroom to me than a condo livingroom (other than the industrial style). We figured it would be nice just to have one big room over a few tiny ones. It's also a king sized bed that is really not possible in most condos.

Then on top of that, our building is about $650/sq. foot :neutral: The 2 bedroom unit we really wanted to buy was $1.6 million...:eek: