Plants for Koi Pond – Alocasia X Amazonica

As a marginal plant, the Alocasia X Amazonica can be grown in half-submerged pots at the sides of your pond or in a shallow part of your pond. I like the large, attractive and waxy looking leaves with clear, lighter colour veins and interesting leave shape. The leaves are not as large as the Elephant Ears (Alocasia Macrorrhiza) can be grown together or placed side by side with other marginal plants as shown in picture above.

Plants from the Alocasia family makes good specimen plants to make the pond more interesting. I also have another specimen of Alocasia  growing in my lily pond.

It looks like the Alocasia Macrorrhiza but the leaves has dark reddish veins.

Effects of using a polarising filter on your Koi pond photos

In one of my earlier post this year, I wrote about photographing your Koi.

If you are using a camera that allows you to fit a filter to your lens, a polarising filter is recommended. Unfortunately, almost all point-and-shoot cameras do not have such capability. For DSLR or SLR camera users, a circular polariser (PL-CIR filter) would do the job. The polariser filter comes with 2 pieces of glass, one fixed and one movable. Once you have decided on your camera angle to take your picture, you need to adjust the movable piece to reduce the glare from the water surface.

Here are the effects of using a polariser filter.  Both pictures were taken using a Nikon DSLR fitted with a PL-Circular polariser. The picture on the right was taken after adjusting the polariser filter to cut out the reflection from the water surface.