No matter what my trees look like in person....

[Mike Corazzi]

....all I have to do is photograph them and they look like an old rake.
Scrawny, thin, flibberty.

You'll have to take my word for it that they look ....kinda.... okay in the wood.











Those pines are just candling after last year's needle pulls. But damn!

Who has good prices on wood chippers?

 

[JudyB]

Same thing happens to me...

 

[Dav4]

They will look sooooooooo much better without the Miller half life photo bombing!!

 

[just.wing.it]

Is that first one being straightened by all that wire?

 

[Adair M]

Is that first one being straightened by all that wire?

That one looks like it has been wired so that no part of the wire is touching the bark. You know, there are actually some teachers who teach that! Lol!!!

the olive looks nice! They develop quickly.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

That one looks like it has been wired so that no part of the wire is touching the bark. You know, there are actually some teachers who teach that! Lol!!!

the olive looks nice! They develop quickly.

That's "insurance" wire. Loosely wrapped just to keep it from straightening. Which it never even tried.

The olive is old. From a pulled up stick in a friend's yard. Someone told me that it is correctly an oleASTER.
I don't know. It has small leaves and grows well if slowly.

 

[M. Frary]

Chippers are pricey but you can always rent one.

 

[Forsoothe!]

We are all made fools by the jerks in our midst that are really professional photographers who live next door to bonsaiists and tell us the trees are theirs. I have some really nice trees that look bad examples of nursery stock slightly trimmed when I photograph them. Your Olive & Elm are very nice. Make friends with a photo nut.

 

[Adair M]

That's "insurance" wire. Loosely wrapped just to keep it from straightening. Which it never even tried.

The olive is old. From a pulled up stick in a friend's yard. Someone told me that it is correctly an oleASTER.
I don't know. It has small leaves and grows well if slowly.

Yeah, I hate it when my wire straightens itself!

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Yeah, I hate it when my wire straightens itself!

That's why it comes in coils.

 

[just.wing.it]

That's why it comes in coils.

That has more to do with manufacturing, storing and shipping.
Tough to ship a 100 ft straight peice of wire.....

@M. Frary that was just wrong dude.....
Lol!

 

[Schmikah]

....all I have to do is photograph them and they look like an old rake.
Scrawny, thin, flibberty.

You'll have to take my word for it that they look ....kinda.... okay in the wood.

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Those pines are just candling after last year's needle pulls. But damn!

Who has good prices on wood chippers?

Its the struggle of anyone without a Nikon d9000 laying around or a photographer with a bonsai obsession hanging around.

My main issue is that you have a high-life for proportion. First its garbage, and then even if its a garbage beer, its un-opened.

 

[just.wing.it]

main issue is that you have a high-life for proportion. First its garbage,

I tend to agree.
Its been over a decade since I had a High Life....I always thought "the champagne of beers" was funny and unappealing.
But I will say, Miller lite is just awful.....never again.

 

[Paradox]

I feel you. The same thing happens to me with my trees.
They always look better to me in person than in a photo.
Probably because photos are 2 dimensional and you cant really see the depth of the tree

 

[Forsoothe!]

OK guys, send all your Miller beer to me. I do this because I'm your friend.

 

[Adair M]

When taking photos of your trees, they look better if you step back away, then zoom in to fill the frame.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

The beer was rented. Anyone knows that COORS is the shiznitz for beer.

 

[Carol 83]

But I will say, Miller lite is just awful.....never again.

Good, more left for me.

 

[Carol 83]

OK guys, send all your Miller beer to me. I do this because I'm your friend.

How about we split the spoils?

 

[Forsoothe!]

How about we split the spoils?

Bring a bag of pretzels, and you're in!