Following on from this tip, a tip of my own (which for all I know is common practice/knowledge to photographers and painters). When photographing my trees it helps me to close one eye when composing the shot. This way I get more of a 2D view, the same as the resultant photo.
Obviously when looking through the viewfinder of a normal camera you only look with one eye, and when using an LCD digi camera you get a 2D picture to look at on the camera, but both views are tiny and not much help.

Regards,

Matt,

I just wanted to thank you for taking the time and to acknowledge your wonderful
Warhol bonsai! Thanks.

That could be in a museum........somewhere......... Probably New York.

Andy,

I may be wrong, but I believe larches grow in boggy areas...

Jim

Thank you, but it is largely a derivative work

I read an article on Andy Warhol sometime back, and I don't know if he was more an artist, personality, cult icon or lighting rod. In any case, it said he had a habit of sweeping everything off his desk into a box. Then the box would be labeled with the date and put into storage. At that time, they were still going through them.

I found something similar in one of the Ukiyo-e artists - it was either Hokusai or Hiroshige, who had a habit of cluttering up his home/studio with so much stuff, that he would simply move to a new one and leave it all behind.

Trying to bring this back home to the Pacific Rim show somehow, and failing utterly... Are the trees alone enough to get folks to the exhibit or do you need things like this, combining media, to bring in the crowds? It would be interesting to have a different musical composition for each display that the viewer could hear. Maybe not even music but envronmental sounds. Sound of open field, birds; in another waterfalls; stormy winds; silence.

Regards,

Matt

Matt: You have touched on one of my day dreams. Create a bonsai display in such a manor so that when you found the perfect point from which to view the araingment you would hear natural sounds..water,bird song or wind. The trich being setting the sounds so that they could only be heard from a specific point and no other. I would really love to figure this one out.

Glenn

"Are the trees alone enough to get folks to the exhibit or do you need things like this, combining media, to bring in the crowds?"

For me the trees are enough. I think the other items [even in traditional displays] kind of clutter things up. I got into bonsai because I was interested in small trees in pots, not interior decoration.

Tony