2017 Project 52 1st quarter Mknittle.

[mknittle]

I am going to give this another try since I have a couple other projects wrapped up.

[Dave Humphries]

Good/better luck this year Mark, I have added this, plus the other couple of 2017 P52 threads so far created, to the Index.

Dave

[mknittle]

Good/better luck this year Mark, I have added this, plus the other couple of 2017 P52 threads so far created, to the Index.

Dave

Thanks Dave.

[mknittle]

It's about time I posted something. this is a Juniper that I reported last Thursday at our bonsai club meeting. The first picture is the way it looks now. The second one is modified in Photoshop to see if I like the style that I am thinking doing on the tree. this is a rough draft of course. after it recovers from the reporting next spring the shaping by wiring branches and trimming the foliage. It should end up about 8" tall. A little tall for the trunk diameter but OK for this style called "Bunjin" I means the learned one.

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I might have a slight counter clockwise rotation.These were taken out in my front yard under a cloudy sky.

[skitterbug]

I like the look of the first little tree. Crisp and clear! And happy!

The second one really does look like a sad little one without the upper branch. But of course that's just me. I am used to trees with multiple branches!

I wanted to ask what type of background are you using to achieve the solid black color? Or did you manipulate this in Photoshop?

Thanks!

[mknittle]

I like the look of the first little tree. Crisp and clear! And happy!

The second one really does look like a sad little one without the upper branch. But of course that's just me. I am used to trees with multiple branches!
I wanted to ask what type of background are you using to achieve the solid black color? Or did you manipulate this in Photoshop?

Thanks!

Thanks for commenting Sandy,
The background is a small fleece from Walmart stretched on a frame made of 3/4" PVC pipe.

[Wavelength]

I liked the first one very much; excellent; second one looks very sad and discouraged

[skitterbug]

Thanks for commenting Sandy,
The background is a small fleece from Walmart stretched on a frame made of 3/4" PVC pipe.

I like your idea! Thanks!

[mknittle]

LOL they are both the same plant. I am using Photoshop to look into the future to see if this style would work on this tree. For the illusion of a large tree to work with smaller trunks the tree must be shorter much shorter. with a 1" trunk the tree should be no taller than 6" finished height.
In the Bunjin style the height can go much higher. the style represents a tree up on a mountain growing in a small amount of soil and gets beat by wind and snow but somehow survives.
Here is a good example of one done well.(not mine)

[Geoff F]

Focus and exposure are good with a nice clean background.

The horizontal line is a fraction off level but without any verticals it is difficult to say what is correct.

[mknittle]

Focus and exposure are good with a nice clean background.

The horizontal line is a fraction off level but without any verticals it is difficult to say what is correct.

Thanks Geoff. it kinda fits my wonky bench

[Shadowman]

Nice juniper.

[mknittle]

Nice juniper.

Thanks John,

[mknittle]

This is a Trident Maple that I won in a raffle about 7years ago. It was so bad that it took me a couple years to to figure out what to do with it. I think it is starting to get a nice shape It reminds me of an old oak tree in a field.

I took this today under a fast moving cloudy sky that gave me fits with it's rapid changes.

[mknittle]

OOPS forgot to rotate it.

[joebranko]

Nice shot! If you could have hidden the plant pot, it would have fooled me.