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Treebeard

Don't worry, I believe you...

Matt, this is the best picture I can get. I know what you mean, but I'm not sure the branch would be up to the job. Besides, if I was to train it up, it would take a some MAJOR bending to make it look convincing, and also the scar would be at the front.

Regards,

TB

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nickbachman

i am extremely fond of ianb's tree. i think it looks like a really great start, even though maybe a better pot is in order. i'm surprised his tree didnt do as well as i think it should have.

TreeBay

It looks like it has enough foliage to do the job. After wrapping it with raffia, you might lash it up against a stub of the existing trunk. This perspective view of the branch probably isn't enough for a virtual, but it would look something like the original silhouette, with the branches emerging Right-Left-Back instead of Back-Back etc.

Regards,

Matt

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TreeBay

I think he had the great styling hampered by a poor final photograph. Don't forget to clean your desk nextime Ian!

When I saw it, I thought to myself: There's a great tree with a lousy backdrop. Hope it makes the finals." I think it squeaked by.

Here's my attempt at a better backdrop. I added about two tiny twigs of foliage to create some depth. Personally, I don't think there is any problem with the pot. This was my favorite in the contest, but I can understand why it didn't do better.

Regards,

Matt

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Carl_Bergstrom

I voted for ianb's tree as well - a nice styling job overall. I think this one got hurt by general untidiness, not only on the desk but also on the tree. The wiring and styling feels "messy," and I think that the lower jin sticks out like an unfortunate afterthought (I think I can safely say this, because I've already admitted that my own wiring job was horrible.) With some tidying and a precision wiring job, photographed level before a nice background, this tree would have been really up there in the voting.

Best regards,
Carl

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Treebeard

I voted for Emperor Fish's entry. Out of the leading contenders, it was the only one that wasn't generic tree shaped, and as such I like it. It has a certain elegance and visual balance that I find appealing. Perhaps reducing the foliage on the right a little would have won more votes?

Regards,

Chris aka TB

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Emperor Fish

Congrats to the top three! Nice work. Big congrats to Chris!

I want to say a serious thank you to Al K, Matt and Walter for their time and effort putting this together and making it work - let's do it again sometime, I really enjoyed the experience.

I can take some solace in the fact that at least I voted for the winning three. Thinking about it, it occurs to me that I didn't use any judging criteria formally that you might in a show such as 'Nebari', 'taper', 'branch placement', 'pot choice', 'placement in pot' 'movement' etc, etc, etc. I sort of just voted for the ones that looked right to me. I wonder if anyone else who voted did score the trees 'properly'?

Chris - thanks for the kind words, however I KNEW I was doomed about three weeks ago when, pottering about in the garden, a close friend, who knows about as much about bonsai as I know about partical physics, showed up and started looking at the trees. "Which one do you like the most?" I asked. He walked straight up to my juniper twig in a pot - "That one" he said.

"Bugger!" I said. Doomed.

Fish.

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Carl_Bergstrom

*laughing*

I liked your tree as well, Fish. I thought that it was the most creative in form of all the entries. Abstract to the point that it probably hurt it in the voting - but this is not necessarily a bad thing. In my view, it seemed more an abstract piece of art than a representation of a tree in nature...which is really cool, and all the more so because you made it abstract without ignoring the basic rules of artistic composition.

All the best,
Carl

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Emperor Fish

Cheers Carl!

Can I use your quote when I sell it on eBay

Fish.

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