Peter Chan's Green Trunks

weirdowl

Hi,
Have you ever noticed the color of some of the trunks on some of the trees in Peter Chan's book, Masterclass. Recently I was looking through the book and was reminded of the bright green trunks in some of the pics. Not faint, or a hint of green, but very bright green. A couple examples: Near the front of the book there is a group of 40-50 year old Ezo Spruce(pg. 12 in my copy), and a 15 year old Larch a little further into the book(pg.41). This book is the only place I've seen this and it has me very curious. I kinda like it on the Ezo Spruce. It almost looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Maybe I haven't looked around enough, but I can't think of any tree I've ever seen in the wild that looked like this. Is it natural? Is it paint? Moss? Any ideas?
Thanks

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Rene_Voortwist

Hi weirdowl,

I think it's either moss or alga (is that the right word ?) Peter's trees in his books always seem a bit weird to me. Very chinese-like and loosely styled. I was very surprised when I stumbled upon his website and saw VERY different trees there.
http://www.herons.co.uk/1herons.htm
What do you think ?

René

weirdowl

Thanks Rene,
I didn't see any of the green stuff on his website. Lots of really nice trees though. I've been noticing more and more lately that the trees I see in nature look more like the loosely styled trees in bonsai. I really like some of the loosely styled trees, but some of them seem like they would look better if they were a little more refined. I think it depends on what type of tree it is. Some types just don't seem to look right in the loose style. But, probably some of my favorite trees I've seen pictures of were in that style.
Thanks again.

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