Fall 2016 Contest.....Sponsors! Prizes!

Thanks sponsors and everyone that participated and sorce for organizing the whole schebanger. Are we almost ready for a holiday red pot challenge?
 
Winners...
Congratulations!

#1 with 31 votes... @wireme
#2 with 26 votes... @PiñonJ
#3 with 21 votes... @sawgrass
#4 with 15 votes... @Vance Wood
#5 with 14 votes... @M. Frary

@wireme Please start us off with a post of your tree and what prize you chose.
Please, select one of our 3 internationally available prizes.

@PiñonJ after wireme posts, please also post a picture of your tree, and your selection from one of the 4 remaining prizes.

@sawgrass @Vance Wood @M. Frary Please continue in this order....if you need reminding of what prizes are still available, I will help.

Once everyone posts, so we can congratulate you, I'll send you a P.M. so we can arrange shipment of your prize.

How about a shout out to our 4 entries that tied for 6th place.
@VAFisher @Josh88 @thomas22 @Stickroot

And everyone who entered....

Excellent work and thank you so much for "showing your trees"....
This is, after all, what it is all about!

Stay tuned.....
We're doing this on the fly so it could get interesting!

Sorce
 
Winners...
Congratulations!

#1 with 31 votes... @wireme
#2 with 26 votes... @PiñonJ
#3 with 21 votes... @sawgrass
#4 with 15 votes... @Vance Wood
#5 with 14 votes... @M. Frary

@wireme Please start us off with a post of your tree and what prize you chose.
Please, select one of our 3 internationally available prizes.

@PiñonJ after wireme posts, please also post a picture of your tree, and your selection from one of the 4 remaining prizes.

@sawgrass @Vance Wood @M. Frary Please continue in this order....if you need reminding of what prizes are still available, I will help.

Once everyone posts, so we can congratulate you, I'll send you a P.M. so we can arrange shipment of your prize.

How about a shout out to our 4 entries that tied for 6th place.
@VAFisher @Josh88 @thomas22 @Stickroot

And everyone who entered....

Excellent work and thank you so much for "showing your trees"....
This is, after all, what it is all about!

Stay tuned.....
We're doing this on the fly so it could get interesting!

Sorce
Congratulations to all of the winners! These were awesome transformations. Thank you Sorce for setting this up, and thank you to the sponsors for your incredibly generous prizes! Looking forward to the next one...
 
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Seems we have a special prize donated by a special Nut for One special entrant.
Enter the Contest , and you may be that special entrant!
Sorce

And since noob's never seem to get any honor for having
the guts to enter one of these I decided it would be diff this time.
As soon as it is confirmed by @sorce the newest to bonsai
can have either Morton's book or fifty dollars whichever they
would like.
 
Congratulations winners! It was fun seeing how everyone styled their trees from what they originally were. Taught me some things and got me to do some things I haven't before.
 
Ok, I can't get to my submission pics but here's a nighttime shot just before a couple final tweaks and a pic from the next morning with fresh snow on the tree.
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It makes me happy to have received all the likes. It was really hard to vote based on experience, starting material, transformation etc.., I probably would have given it to pinion myself. Look at that scruffy little shrub he started with, how can anything nice be made of that! Really nice image in the end. Good work all around from everyone.
I am really happy with what I was able to tease out too, no doubt. On purchase all I could really say was there was trunk in there somewhere. The hardest part was the twisting of the fronds with fine wires to lay them flat as well as position them. Wrapping one direction on one, then around the trunk to find it's the wrong direction on the next, things got sloppy here and there. Good practice.

I would like to pick the stickroot prize if that's up for canada? I have a tree in mind for a stickroot pot alright, nice little guy too. I'd be happy to cover shipping.
Thanks, Sorce, sponsors, everyone.
 
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Congrats to all the winners and a big Thank you to Sorce for coordinating it and to the Sponsor's for the great prizes!!! This was a fun way to see the start of some great trees, several of which I wouldn't mind owning and continuing the development of.
 
So that Stickroot Prize is going to Canada!

Great snow shot!

I reckon you can just PM @Stickroot direct.

Can't wait to see the Combo!

You deserve it my friend!

Well done!

@PiñonJ , you're up!

Sorce
 
Ok, I can't get to my submission pics but here's a nighttime shot just before a couple final tweaks and a pic from the next morning with fresh snow on the tree.
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It makes me happy to have received all the likes. It was really hard to vote based on experience, starting material, transformation etc.., I probably would have given it to pinion myself. Look at that scruffy little shrub he started with, how can anything nice be made of that! Really nice image in the end. Good work all around from everyone.
I am really happy with what I was able to tease out too, no doubt. On purchase all I could really say was there was trunk in there somewhere. The hardest part was the twisting of the fronds with fine wires to lay them flat as well as position them. Wrapping one direction on one, then around the trunk to find it's the wrong direction on the next, things got sloppy here and there. Good practice.

I would like to pick the stickroot prize if that's up for canada? I have a tree in mind for a stickroot pot alright, nice little guy too. I'd be happy to cover shipping.
Thanks, Sorce, sponsors, everyone.
Oh yes! Congrats!
Pm me !
I love snow shots!
 
And since noob's never seem to get any honor for having
the guts to enter one of these I decided it would be diff this time.
As soon as it is confirmed by @sorce the newest to bonsai
can have either Morton's book or fifty dollars whichever they
would like.

Confirmed; the "newest to bonsai" submittal
was @wsteinhoff. Please PM me so we can make
arrangements to get it to you.
 
So sorry I can't post a photo! As I said, I'm traveling, and, wouldn't you know it, this is the one time I actually used a DSLR camera instead of my phone to take the photos!:eek: Best I can do at the moment is post the link to the contest page. http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/fall-contest-2016-an-honest-balance.24716/ maybe @Bonsai Nut could copy the two front shots to this post.
I'd love to have the Iker pot. Congratulations to @wireme, @sawgrass and the other prize winners. And well-done to everyone who participated! This was a good learning experience for me. Thanks to @sawgrass for some good advice. I definitely wanted to keep working on the image, but had to leave town (for a bonsai course, at least!), and by the time I returned, the tree was already well into fall colors and the foliage was more sparse. Here's a shout out to @tree4me, I think you have a cool image starting there. Thanks again to @sorce and the awesome sponsors!
 

Sorry I can't read!

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I hope that one is ok!

Wow! OK?
That's fantastic!

PM me when you can! Be safe on the road!

@sawgrass .....
Take one off the table!

Then somebody might have to go find @Vance Wood !

@M. Frary. Where is Vance?

I don't know about you all....
But seeing who is selecting what is just as delightful as the trees!

Sorce
 
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