bonsaiTALK Community - View Single Post - TOD for Monday, October 3, 2005

As others have said, great tree! Positives, overall flow of age and ruggedness contributing to harmony in image-display. Trunk, foliage attention.

Impressive stand transition poots! I try to collect regularly and can really associate with that!

I'm having a hard time discerning the nebari with picture quality, perhaps my screen. Could be great, I see the jinned nebari, liking those.

Items that stop my eye from flowing right through the harmony are:
-shari on trunk as noted, doesn't fully fit for me that sudden full shari to fully livewood transition, I like seeing the lifeline flow through most of the tree
-the seemingly abrupt vertical transition right of the shari completion/small jin (and harmonizing somewhat with the jin) but just appears very abrupt vertically and then downward with the small jin at it's transition, perhaps if this jin was larger (ie. indicating a major growth thrust had gone vertical-been beaten by weather and now a smaller size growth had lived on flowing downward-succumbing to the weather but surviving, make any sense?)
-the very small top jin I'd like to see tied in with the rest of the shari/tree, perhaps part of future plans
-I love the jin'd roots, but my eye seems stuck on seeing too many sharp 90 transitions on the overall piece, maybe my eye's in soft mode at present and not rugged mode?

I do love the tree! Just some comments on where the harmony is interrupted somewhat for myself.

3-Oct-2005	#9
Happy Gilmore bonsaiTALK Expert Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Vancouver, BC Country: Canada USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 159	As others have said, great tree! Positives, overall flow of age and ruggedness contributing to harmony in image-display. Trunk, foliage attention. Impressive stand transition poots! I try to collect regularly and can really associate with that! I'm having a hard time discerning the nebari with picture quality, perhaps my screen. Could be great, I see the jinned nebari, liking those. Items that stop my eye from flowing right through the harmony are: -shari on trunk as noted, doesn't fully fit for me that sudden full shari to fully livewood transition, I like seeing the lifeline flow through most of the tree -the seemingly abrupt vertical transition right of the shari completion/small jin (and harmonizing somewhat with the jin) but just appears very abrupt vertically and then downward with the small jin at it's transition, perhaps if this jin was larger (ie. indicating a major growth thrust had gone vertical-been beaten by weather and now a smaller size growth had lived on flowing downward-succumbing to the weather but surviving, make any sense?) -the very small top jin I'd like to see tied in with the rest of the shari/tree, perhaps part of future plans -I love the jin'd roots, but my eye seems stuck on seeing too many sharp 90 transitions on the overall piece, maybe my eye's in soft mode at present and not rugged mode? I do love the tree! Just some comments on where the harmony is interrupted somewhat for myself.