| Don, I favored the GR Showa in post two, first koi
Here are a coupla things that caught my eye,
GR usually does not photo well, this one does which makes me feel it is very strong....
On my shiro's and showa's I look for black under the dorsal that will be a strong anchor for the rest of the pattern. I call it a saddle as it spreads across the back and down the sides.
I've had better luck with showa that has tight motoguro as Tosai that increases as opposed to full black pecs with only the leading ray white that has the black receeding.
if you break the pattern into thirds a tail,middle and head pattern all sections have 3 colors
It has a nice tail stop
while i don't see any black showing on the nose, the head has black and i think some things will attractively happen on the forehead with the sumi.
Here's one i chose from Toshio sakai as a Tosai |