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Originally Posted by Vance Wood
If anyone here had taken the time to read the rules of the contest you would realize that attribution was not an issue, except as to where the tree came from; Europe or North America. It seems to me this is another exercise in straining at a Nat and swallowing a camel.
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I guess that would be one opinion.
I don't think we know for sure who selects the trees that are displayed with articles. It may well be that editorial staff chooses the article names and illustrations, like publishers often choose the photos that illustrate bonsai books without input from the authors. (You know, the otherwise good books that have covers that look more like potted plants than trees).
By the way, I think it was equally poor judgement to choose another entry, #
NA076, to decorate the
homepage of the artofbonsai.org site while the judging is going on! Again I have no idea who is responsible for that, but it's unfortunate. If the images were ALL shown in rotation, that would be acceptable, but to single out one image for special treatment during the judging is discriminatory.
One thing is for sure, there are some fine trees in this contest!
Regards,
Matt