So? Just because someone can do something doesn't mean it will look good. I can take a formal upright and lay it on its side and call it a cascade but I don't think it will get accepted to the National exhibition. And I don't think people here will fall all over themselves praising it and my wonderful vision.
I see you are slipping back into obnoxious mode. For the past few months you've been better, so this is a shame. I saw it in that response you made a day or two ago (where you were complaining that no one was responding to another one of your trees) but deleted.
My interpretation of the contest was that it was to make a tree that looked good now, not 5 or 10 years from now. If someone can do that without wiring every tiny little branch, even better. The other tree looks better now. Tough.
Sorry man, I'm not going to get into the game of guessing what Kathy meant. I wasn't there to hear the comment. Trees grow in all kinds of weird, distorted ways. Doesn't mean they'll look good in a bonsai pot. I've given you the reasons I think your tree isn't as good now as the other tree. Others have done the same. Maybe in 5 or 10 years we'll look back and say "wow, he did a good job with that tree."
Yes, but you have missed an important issue... one can lay a tree down if they want to and call it what ever they want and I will agree this does not mean they are going to get any sort of acceptance or praise... I get this, but what is disturbing to me is that perhaps you and others think this is what I have done!
It is like there is a rule here at the Nut that if you or someone else does not like something it is incorrect. And if someone does not agree with you, they are living in some fantasy world, where only they are the ones that think the work is good. And then out floods the ridiculous notions of how work is not good and how someone can just do some sort of hocus-pocus is as you have said, with your comments of laying a tree on it side and calling it a cascade, as if they are trying to somehow pull the wool over everyone's eyes, and trick them into believing a tree is good, when they because they think they know something couldn't be wrong...
Reality... is as I have said, you are entitled to your opinion, but facts are a different issue... I have posted numerous examples of how the style I had chosen is based I'm actual facts, not opinions. .. the design is in all actuality a very common and very acceptable approach, as is evident from the pictures posted. And you have no actual evidence to prove that it is not other than a personal view that you don't agree with it. As I have said, this is fine... you are entitled to not like my tree... but, what you are not entitled to, is to try and play me off as some sort of idiot who does not know what they are doing, just because you do not agree with what I have said or done. This is wrong!
I have asked repeatedly for someone to show where how I have styled the tree is wrong. To date, no one can do it... so, just because you are not a fan of the work, does not mean you are any more right, than I am perhaps wrong.
As far as convincing folks here my tree is good, I don't need to... my tree came in a dead tie with the individual who won,in the viewer's choice, which accounted for one fourth of the vote, in his neighborhood, with all his friends who were present, and with a ballot box that sat unattended, and with no actual individual making sure that multiple votes were not actually casts... so, who actually knows what the real results would have been in this case.
Now, let's take this into perspective for a moment... this is Sacramento. .. it does not get more Juniper world than this! I mean, this is pretty much the land of Junipers in the states.... If any one of the thousand folks who attended thought I was perhaps trying to pull something over with them, you better believe it would of been known as well as shown... they don't play! And can smell BS a mile away! So, don't tell me because you have been doing Bonsai for how long, and that you have worked with Junipers for how long, that I would for one moment, take your word over anyone in attendance who actually saw the trees side by side and in person.
I had numerous folks who I had never met, who I later realized were actually of importance, as much so if not more, than Kathy... who have been doing bonsai longer than most if us have been alive... they told me that not only was my tree the best, that they didn't even know folks from Florida knew about Junipers, but also invited me to come style trees at their nursery, whenever I was in town.
I don't think they would just offer up this if I was trying to pull some BS.
I have asked a simple question, to show me where my tree is wrong, you cannot do this, voice your opinion all you want, but don't try and pull out some sob story about, how I cannot somehow accept your views and I don't know what I am talking about. Sorry, but pulling rank here. Want to talk trees, fine, but don't try and tell me your view is worth anymore than mine, when you have no actual evidence to back it up.
