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7-Nov-2004
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GSBF Convention 2004
My wife and I decided to go to the convention at the last minute. I was not going to go this year, because of the long distance from our home. I needed a pot, and thought I may be able to get it there. I was wrong. I was really dissapointed with the vendor turnout. While they had two rooms with goods, there were not many trees for sale, and the pots were lacking. The main reasons I went.
but...The exhibit was superb! The trees were in top notch condition, and they were displayed well on the stands. The overall feeling of the display was alittle crowded, but this was due to the huge amount of trees used in the exhibit. In contrast to the Fresno convention last year, where the trees were displayed on podiums in the Hotel Foyer, these trees were displayed more traditionally in a room with tables and covers. A lot of influence in the condition of the trees was due in large part to the area in which the convention took place. While Kathy Shaner was a co-chair of the convention, I am sure that many of these trees are under her tutilage. It was clear that many of the trees were also the product of Bay Island Bonsai, and Boon Manakitivipart. I had seen many of these trees just months ago at their exhibit. I will start out with a photo in one of the vendor rooms with a pic of my wife standing amid the explosion of orange and yellow fall color that was present in most of the stock for sale. I was also delighted to see that in the next pic, one of my shohin stands was in the show 300 miles away from my home. How about that pomagranite , with the yellow leaves and the closeup of that great trunk?
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7-Nov-2004
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I wish I had taken a few shots of the tables as rows so you could see how close together some of these trees were. I have croped them fairly close and have tried to include the accent when possible. There were few accents, but the accents that were present were very good. I will include them in a seperate thread all to themselves.
A boug. for the east coast guys and gals.
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7-Nov-2004
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Greybeard
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I could not miss taking some photos of the oil slick tridents for Carl. The last tree, a false cypress, and the close up of the nabari. This is the way it is supposed to look, while the moss is done just the way it should be. It should be adaquate but not overpowering, and it should not hide trunk nor roots but emphasize them. The moss should look natural, as this does.
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7-Nov-2004
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Greybeard
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There were an array of Sierra and Cal. juniper here. It is amazing at the difference in styling considerations between these trees. One look at these trees from Northern Cal. shows much the same look as traditional Japanese styled junipers, while there is much contrast between these from the north and those from the south of Cal.
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7-Nov-2004
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Greybeard
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A very unique shohin juniper. I loved the trunkon this plant. very dramatic. I shot a closeup for your review.
The only group composition in the exhibit was this foemina group. I wish there had been a great trident group all aflame in fall color. That would have been sweet.
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7-Nov-2004
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The remainder of these photos are of trees not in the actuall exhibit room, but scattered up and down the hall leading to the exhibit room. Some of these were focal trees at rest stations, eating stops, and the registration area.
The first tree, a ponderosa Pine from Dan Robinson. Estimated to have barely made it through the last ice age, and well over 12,000 years old 
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7-Nov-2004
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This photo, I hope it shows, was of a very unique tree. Maybe a privit of some find, but the wire was applied so as to make it a weeping style. I love it.
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7-Nov-2004
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The first three photos show a workshop with Mel Ikeda. The material in here looked pretty good to me.
The fourth photo is of one of the headliners, Marco Invernizzi. The final photo is of "the" headliner Harunobu Tokita. I an not familiar with his work, but I am not exactly sure about this planting angle?
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7-Nov-2004
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Hi Al
Nice pictures, thanks for showing. That weeping tree looks like a silver birch to me! Regards Mike
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