Arakawa JBP

[Piedmont Bonsai]

nice tree and pot. I had my eye on that yamaaki for a while

 

[johnl445]

Great tree, l love it @Brian Van Fleet

 

[baldone]

Beautiful trees!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Cool shot after the rain with a little mist in the air…

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Here it is, looking full and just a few weeks to candle-cutting time. This winter it will need to be fully rewired and thinned out a little. This pine has the sharpest needles of any I have worked with. Kathy S once told me they were sharper than any JBP she’d worked with outside Japan.

 

[cmeg1]

Looks really great!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Candle cutting, before and after. Left that first branch mostly alone one more year to extend. By fall work, it should have plenty to wire out.

 

[jszg]

Could you get a shot of the interior of the crown?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Could you get a shot of the interior of the crown?

I’ll try to get one when I work on it this fall.

 

[pictorangelicvs]

Here it is, looking full and just a few weeks to candle-cutting time. This winter it will need to be fully rewired and thinned out a little. This pine has the sharpest needles of any I have worked with. Kathy S once told me they were sharper than any JBP she’d worked with outside Japan.
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Oof, stunning. The photography frames and captures the tree perfectly as well, the foggy photo too. The play with depth of field highlights the whole landscape in miniature or tiny monumental tree aspect of each detail.

The needle length focusing into alignment and silhouette of the canopy tightening over time and then the slow undercurrent of tectonic movement in the character of the truck (the precision of every gesture of your work acting upon the natural growth of every bud branch and root) all work together to produce what looks to me (a complete novice) like the animating spirit so central to the classical image. The graceful bow of the trunk and beckoning of the lowest and longest branch fingers too.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Completely unwired it yesterday, some of the wires had been on for several years, and a little too long. When the needles are hardened off, I’ll prune and wire it out again.

 

[hampton]

Beautiful tree. Thank you for sharing it’s journey