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Perpetual Novice
Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Bridgewater, NJ
Country: United States
Posts: 1,367
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Rocky Mountain Juniper (work In Process)
Last September at the International Bonsai Symposium, I participated in two workshops with Shinji Suzuki.
In the first, we styled collected Rocky Mountain Junipers.
Here is the before picture. When I first saw the tree, I was disappointed thatI hadn't gotten one with the nice trunk movement which is typical of these trees.
After looking at it for a while, I found that I loved the taper, and the potential power of this tree.
Suzuki, who, bless him, had studied the workshop trees the night before, said that this tree "Gave him headache".
My reaction to this was that it sounded as though:
The tree was potentially interesting
It represented an opportunity to create something special.
(It also convinced me that I needed a larger turntable.)
Here is the "before"
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