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Old 13-Dec-2005   #4
John Dixon
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One thing I noticed is you have to be more extreme with putting movement into a tree and its branching for a photo.All of my orginal small secondary branch bends had to be redone so some movement would be noticed in the photo.Using the viewer of my camera Iset the tree on a table and would snip and pinch here and there making small adjustments on the tree then checking in the viewer for progress.


Redpine,

Congrats on your effort. In your above quote, truer words were never said. It's amazing how much you need to exaggerate branching to make is more photogenic.

I didn't mention it in my original comments because pot placement is not a criteria in the contest, but don't you feel this bonsai needs to be off-set left, rather than right? Just an observation.

Good luck with you tree in the future.

John
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