Some pictures from the Redneck Bonsai Photo Studio

[Dav4]

Messing around with different cameras and settings... These were taken with my I-phone

 

[Dav4]

These were taken with a real camera...

 

[quietobserver]

What model iPhone? Great pics and trees btw

 

[Dav4]

.... real camera, auto setting without flash...

 

[Dav4]

What model iPhone? Great pics and trees btw

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[quietobserver]

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Wife just got a 10 something and I’m amazed at how great a pic the things can take.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I love the macro setting on my camera combined with the preset "nature".
These pictures look good already though!

 

[queenofsheba52]

Nice peek into your bonsai world!

 

[bonsaidave]

If you bump up the contrast in post processing those iphone pics, they will be perfect.

 

[Dav4]

Nice peek into your bonsai world!

Stay tuned for more pics as more trees get worked this winter... and then we have the D trees budding out in about two months

 

[DaveV]

Does Georgia get cold enough in the winter for your junipers? One of your junipers looks like one form Bonsai West.

 

[Dav4]

If you bump up the contrast in post processing those iphone pics, they will be perfect.

I think I like this...?

 

[Dav4]

Does Georgia get cold enough in the winter for your junipers? One of your junipers looks like one form Bonsai West.

Junipers, in general, are about as adaptable to varying climates as a bonsai hobbyist could want. There's a rocky mountain junipers, 2 shimpaku (J. chinensis) and a J. squamata (singleseed juniper) in the pictures above, all purchased from New England Bonsai over a decade ago. They were rock solid growing in MA, and have done well Down in N GA for the last 10 years, though spider mites and fungal rusts and tip blights are a bigger issue here. It's the alpine species, like Japanese White Pine, that I worry about. I also brought several pines collected from out west when I moved... their carcasses are somewhere in my landscaping

 

[JudyB]

I think I like this...?
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Yeah thats nice. I did some with my new 10R but only lowered the light intensity, I'll try contrast next time. Nice work going on there.

 

[barrosinc]

Zoom more on the real camera. That way you can avoid having the roof as background. You will have to stand farther out.

 

[Dav4]

Zoom more on the real camera. That way you can avoid having the roof as background. You will have to stand farther out.

I'll try and stand as far back as I can before the slope of my yard drops me too far down... I'm already out almost as far as I can go.

 

[Dav4]

Ok, I got the afternoon off thanks to the winter weather event that wasn't... but it's 2 pm, most of my trees are on the ground and beginning to freeze up and we're headed into the teens tonight. I swung by HD and got some higher wattage LED floods to try them out in the RNBPS.

 

[Dav4]

This one, and all of, has been slowly growing for a month or so... Time to cut it back to get more taper and some branching.

 

[WesB]

I think I like this...?
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What are your plans with the first branch, when I remove it with my hand the tree looks far superior as a bonsai. I'm guessing it is a sacrifice or you like it on there and I'm just not seeing the same tree as you. I like it very much though.

 

[Dav4]

So, are we talking about the little trunk-like branch coming of the base to the left? If we are, I have to say that’s one of my favorite features of this tree, something that makes people stop and ask questions... a “conversation branch” if you will. It certainly is unusual for an old, tall tree to have a Low branch like that. With that in mind, I’ll agree that while removing that branch would produce a nice image, it would remove a piece of the tree that sets it apart from other similar trees. Anyway, I won’t be cutting it off any time soon.