oooohhh i love this composition

farrlinzee

I saw this on a chinese site and wanted to share.
http://photo.163.com/photos/rcylj868/5092873/80061361/
Cheers
Lindsay

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Cathie

Oh wow, that's terrific! Not sure I really do like that arch, but the rest is very realistic - wonder how long it's been on the rocks?

1n1m3g

wow! is that all the same tree. looks like some one dug up a huge stump and then developed the suckers that grew out afterwards. you'd have to have a lot of foresight to accomplish something like this... very neat - wade

grampz

Mr. Lindsay,

Thank you for sharing this link to a truly fabulous composition...Artistic works such as this make me stop to think and wonder just how 'artistic potted trees' have managed to evolve to the 'simplified' form we have become so accustomed to...Unfortunately, we have allowed ourselves to be so governed and limited by the so called 'rules' or 'guidelines' of bonsai, that our work and our appreciation suffers because of it...

Please know that you are not only doing a great service to the art by giving freely of your time to produce and share the wonderful videos of bonsai from around the world, but you are also doing much to promote the understanding that we have at our disposal a vast supply of good art to use as inspiration in our work...I believe through sharing the works from other countries the art of potted trees in the Western world will be improved immensely...

Regards
Behr

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stephenr

Thank you Lindsay for sharing this image with us…
And my sediments exactly Grampz. We tend to get lost in the rules and forget the artistic composition we are trying to achieve. I tend to work on the principle that ‘it’s the artist composition that has the greater value in my bonsai’ not if the bonsai conforms to the rules…

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Tincan

I didnt even knowyou could do that..... hmm really makes you think

GavSol

33 of 1000 - the first one captures you, while the rest just blow you away! Wow, the more of these great bonsai you see, the more you appreciate what an art form it really is.

Thanks Lindsay

Gav

Edit-- Sorry, but I just had to repost - I think it should almost be mandatory for all to look through at least some of this site. Many of us come here to get advice and learn; I've just spent a few hours engrosed in this site and I'm just absolutely amazed at the elegance of some of these trees.

http://photo.163.com/photos/rcylj86...11201/#80968674

Best gallery I've seen all year.

anttal63

thanks to you for sharing this site everything i feel gramps has already said so well. do know if all this work is from china or the world?

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farrlinzee

Yeah, I've spent lots of time surfing this gallery as well. I share your joy.

A Chinese girl "Sun Na" directed me to it. She say's its titled Mountain trees.

This one http://photo.163.com/photos/rcylj868/5092873/80983032/ is one of the Kimura trees featured in WOB at http://www.bonsaifarm.tv/content/view/100/51/
Sun Na says there is no written info of it's origin but Kimura is a real straight talker so what he say's goes. I think they are mainly Chinese with a scattering of others including Japanese.

Cheers
Lindsay