Carolina Bonsai Expo

bwaynef

Well, I bothered to take the pictures, and host them, then move them to a faster server, and write up the html in notepad to make all this work, so I figure I ought to try to have as many people see it as possible.

Carolina Bonsai Expo Pics

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Ralph

The juniper with the nice shari on page 3 was my fav. Also liked the pyracanthra on the last page with the exposed roots, that was really striking.

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Skipsan

The pycracantha was People's Choice, as I recall

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Skipsan

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Minima' dwarf Hinoki Cypress - chosen Best of Show by Mr. Zhao

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bwaynef

There are other pictures of the trees at the show. I think I read that Ron took pictures of all the trees for a lesson on critiquing for the people in his study group. Maybe more of those will filter in. Some of the images I am proud of. Some I'm not proud of at all. Hopefully you all will enjoy viewing them.

TreeBay

Thanks for posting these! The load time still seems pretty slow over here, maybe because you are getting a lot of hits, but at 400K a page it must be slow for some - that's why we thumbnail stuff.

I think if it were me (and it's not!) I would pull these out of focus shots.

http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0221.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0223.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0238.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0239.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0240.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0249.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0228.JPG (you have this twice on the same page anyway)
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0224.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0213.JPG
http://63.135.41.79/images/bonsai/DSCF0214.JPG

They bring things down. It's better to have half as many pictures that are twice as good, IMHO.

Regards,

Matt

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Skipsan

Ginko Biloba, 118 yrs old, Mr. Zhao was put off by the mutiplle trunks, but said that at the advanced age of the branches on this tree, he wouldn't attempt to change it.

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bwaynef

TreeBay, I don't mean to present the idea that I thought I'd done these well. A quick perl/sed script and I had all these images in a table in valid html. I probably should have thumbnailed them and let you all choose what you wanted to see, but I haven't taken the time to find any software that generates thumbnails and I haven't automated that in photoshop yet.

You're probably right about the fuzzy/out-of-focus pics but I'll chalk that up to laziness. I thought I'd properly disclaimed this on the index.html page but I really just put these pics up to show off what the Carolina-area is capable of....with as little hassle as possible.

All that defense and..... anyway, hope you enjoyed the pics. Looks like skipsan has found a few better pictures and added to this thread (what I wanted anyway.)

Forest Reef

I have a question about posting pics from shows....I took most of my pics at the Carolina Bonsai Expo as "club displays" (I was trying to get a club's trees together, with their placard saying who they were to give credit appropriately). I intend to use these for our next local club mtg to discuss what seemed to work & what didn't & how to make our display better next time..... Anyhow - I've heard occasional rumblings about people who don't want their trees photo'd or said photos uploaded on the web. So - is it ok to post my pics (with 'credit' club IDs in many of them)? Or should I stick to single "annonymous" shots (many fewer of those)? This was my first show - what is "normal" practice about pics?

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