Walk with giants (Embedded Pics Warning)

MichelC

Hi,



Some time ago in the chat room, I promised some of You to show
some awesome pics of a recent exploit Marc Noelanders did,
and now I finally found the time to do it.

We already found out about Marcs feat in our monthly class at the time,
as he shortly mentioned it in a spirit which, to say the least,
best can be described as that of a kid in a toy store;
He ‘d really been having a ball on this one.

Meanwhile, some of these pics already appeared in the 87th issue (Jan.200 of the German magazine “Bonsai Art” (which all class members, including myself, ordered on the spot), and a compilation was also on display at
the recently held Noelanders’ Trophy IX.
But not all were, and especially the first and the last pic give some perspective to the size of the task accomplished.

As the job-in-progress pics were displayed behind glass,
I regret to say that I couldn’t capture these in a straight frontal way, because of obvious flashlight problems. So I had to shoot them at an angle.
Anyway, enjoy . . .





1. Frolicking in anticipation for the job ahead







2. Jeeez’ . . . What a whopper ! ! !







3.Early stages of design (2 pics)











4. Firehouse and other wizz tricks.







5. Finalising the work on the tree.







6. Recapturing the trees’ stages





7. Me next to a +-live sized pic ( 102% ) of the finished tree.

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Michel

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froufrou

Nice work. Can't imagine how many hours he took to do that, could write a whole book on his process I think. Would buy that book hehe.

Kitsune

Wow. Just. Wow.


I'll be honest, I actually wondered if the first image with him *in* the tree was a very well done photoshopping job! lol

Amazing.

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MichelC

Hi,



According to the article (and Marc himself), the transformation took just a week,
though I can imagine that a bonsai master in full working swing doesn't restrict
himself to a mere 9-to-5 hour schedule.

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Michel

BarbaraM

His artistic vision just astounds me!!!!!!

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dankone

i think i'm gonna go dig them big bastards i've been eyeing for awhile! dang man, bonsai people are insain!!! that is an amazing tree!!!! but even more amazing is the work that was involved awesome job!!!!!.

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